The Eclypse Z7 is a powerful prototyping platform, featuring Xilinx's Zynq-7000 APSoC. A SYZYGY™ 1) compatible carrier board, it features two SYZYGY™ interface connectors, enabling high speed modular systems.
Eclypse is designed to enable high speed analog data capture and analysis. It is a platform for research and rapid prototyping of test and measurement applications, potentially including software-defined radio, ultrasound, other medical devices, and much more. As a host board for Zmods, applications for the Eclypse can vary significantly between system configurations.
This page is the resource center for the Eclypse Z7, where you will find all of Digilent’s support materials and documentation for the Eclypse, including fully open and customizable hardware designs, baremetal software examples, and Linux images.
Important: The Eclypse Z7's tutorials, projects, and system images target Vivado 2019.1, Xilinx SDK 2019.1, and Petalinux 2019.1, and are not officially supported in other versions of Vivado.
As of the time of writing, two different versions of the Zmod IPs used to provide a hardware interface from the Zynq PL to the Zmods exist. These two versions have different pros and cons. In short, at the time of writing, the latest release supports all of the variants of the Zmod Scope but does not yet support Petalinux or Baremetal software projects, while the initial release fully supports software, but does not support variants of the Zmod Scope other than the 1410-105.
The Zmod AWG 1411 Controller and Zmod Scope 1410 Controller make up the second release of the low-level controller IP. No compatible software libraries are available at the time of writing.
For a hardware-only project demonstrating their use, see the Eclypse Z7 Low-Level Low-Pass Filter Demo.
The initial release of demos for the Eclypse and Zmod AWG used the Zmod Library to control the Zmod AWG through the Zmod DAC 1411 AXI Adapter and Zmod DAC 1411 Low Level Controller IPs.
Using the Zmod AWG with the Zmod Library and Eclypse Z7 is a software demo (Baremetal and PetaLinux) that outputs a ramp waveform through one of the channels of the Zmod AWG. This demo uses the Zmod Library and the initial release of the Zmod IPs.
The initial release of demos for the Eclypse and Zmod Scope used the Zmod Library to control the Zmod Scope through the Zmod ADC1410 AXI Adapter and Zmod ADC 1410 Low Level Controller IPs. These IPs are only compatible with the Zmod Scope 1410-105 (formerly the Zmod ADC 1410).
Using the Zmod Scope 1410-105 with the Zmod Library and Eclypse Z7 is a software demo (Baremetal and PetaLinux) that performs an immediate capture of 10 μs of data from channel one of the Zmod Scope and writes it to standard out and (in Linux) a file. This demo uses the Zmod Library and the initial release of the Zmod IPs.