PYNQ3.0.1, ZCU208
After crawling through documentation and making incremental changes, I’ve finally been able to fully initialize the RFDC IP Core with some stuff attached to it. Now, what I would like to do is to use it to feed data from a function generator into the ADC, and read it back out from the DAC. Eventually I would like to store the data in a streaming pipelined fashion through memory to simulate the effects of long signal delays from a transmitter to a receiver, but… baby steps first.
Here’s the block design. I cribbed the packet controller IP because I thought perhaps TLAST not existing out of the RFDC core (I don’t understand why there isn’t one??) was the problem. I write “1” to the S_AXI registers required to enable the packet generator and pass in that the packet size is 1, so TLAST should go high on every transfer.
zcu208_RF0.pdf (247.6 KB)
The configuration of the RFDC IP is almost identical to that of the Radio example project.
First I would like to be able to read data into the memory from the ADC. I’ve dug around through some of the Base overlay and the radio receiver IP, and I think I’ve managed to configure my DMA correctly (since using that overlay I can read in accurate data no problem) but alas:
No data seems to get sent into the SoC environment, even though the Zynq PS DDR addresses are correctly assigned to the DMA M_AXI networks. Eventually I think I need to use the Data Mover IP to stream send/receive commands to keep the data flowing through the fabric without pause, but for the time being I’d be satisfied with sampling a signal and regenerating it on the other side (perhaps with some DC offset and adjusted gain).
Not sure at the moment where to look next for something to fix – there’s smoke coming out of my ears already from digging around in registers all day. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Reid