Eclypse Z7 ZMOD Core

[w1064]

Hi everyone,

I have an Eclypse Z7 and was looking to build a Vivado project with the 1410 and 1411 ZMODs.  When I use the board definition provided by Digilent in Vivado, there isn't any core/automation for the ZMOD interface logic - is this documented/downloadable elsewhere?

I've worked with Zync/MPSOC within Vivado/Petalinux before so understand the basics.  My main issue is the support for these two ZMODs seems weak with Petalinux but I might not be looking in the right place.

Any references would be great!

Jeff

[artvvb]

Hi Jeff,

Welcome to the forums.

There's no board file support or connection automation for the Zmod controller IPs. They're provided through the vivado-library repository on Github, but it's expected that you would base your designs on existing demo projects. I'd refer you to the following demos:

• https://digilent.com/reference/programmable-logic/eclypse-z7/demos/zmod-scope - Supports Petalinux and baremetal software, but is limited to Vivado & Xilinx SDK 2019.1.
• https://digilent.com/reference/programmable-logic/eclypse-z7/demos/zmod-awg - Supports Petalinux and baremetal software (and uses the same hardware platform as the above Scope demo), but is also limited to 2019.1.
• https://digilent.com/reference/programmable-logic/eclypse-z7/demos/low-level-low-pass-filter - PL-only demo that loops the input to the output using updated versions of the frontend controller IPs.
• https://digilent.com/reference/programmable-logic/eclypse-z7/demos/ddr-streaming - Baremetal software only, under construction as it's lacking some documentation, but improves on a limitation of the above demos where BRAM buffers can't record more than a couple of thousand samples. The release archives are for 2021.1, but ought to be usable in more recent versions.

Hope this helps,

Arthur