Marius

Hi Jon, I will drop them an email but I believe they answer this in the user guides for these boards. They have various examples for running linux based applications but they also provide a section named 'no-os', where they provide sample VHDL and an SDK framework that (as far as I can assertain) will run from a Microblaze implementation on the FPGA. They indicate that these cards are compatible with various boards manufactured directly by Xilinx, like the Kintex KC705 (which does not contain an ARM processor either). In theory I believe this should work. The challenge will be to get decent data transfer rates back to the PC. The standard USB 2 simply will not cut it. My plan is to initially test the AD-FMCOMMS-EBZ and then redesign my own that will include a Cypress Semiconductor USB 3 interface for fast transfer rates back to a PC running GNURadio. I need this board for developing multimedia applications and I am not willing to substitute it for the Zedboard. I would really appreciate your thoughts on this. Regards Marius

Hi, I have a query relating to the LPC FMC connector for the Nexys Video Artix-7 FPGA Trainer Board. Will the FMC connector on this board support / be compatible with the Analog Devices "AD-FMCOMMS-EBZ" range of Wideband Software Defined Radio Boards? As per my understanding these Analog Devices Evaluation Boards are compatible with the FMC connector on the Zedboard Zynq - 7000 ARM/FPGA SoC Development Board. Is there a significant difference between the FMC connectors on these two Digilent Development Boards or is it safe to assume that the Nexys Video Artix-7 FPGA board will also support the Analog Devices evaluation boards?