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Eclypse Z7 Out of Box Demo
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Description
The Out-of-Box demo is programmed into the Eclypse's flash memory at the time of manufacturing. As the demo does not make use of any Zmods, it may not be the most useful, however, it is presented here in case you want to review its sources or reprogram the flash.
Inventory
- Eclypse Z7
- Vivado and Xilinx SDK installations compatible with the latest release of this demo (2019.1)
- See Getting Started with Vivado for installation instructions.
- Serial Terminal application to receive messages printed by the demo
- See Installing and Using a Terminal Emulator for more information.
- A power supply for external power
- A microUSB cable for a USB connection to the host computer
Download and Usage Instructions
The projects will be downloaded by cloning the Eclypse Z7 repo on Github. Use of git to obtain the sources is recommended. It is still possible to download ZIPs of the projects from Github but dependencies will need to be downloaded and placed in the correct locations manually.
The Out-of-Box demo doesn't use any Zmods, but it is perfectly safe to have them plugged in while running it. It should be noted that Zmods are not hot-swappable.
Get the power supply and USB cable plugged into the board. It can be powered on whenever.
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- Download the Demo
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Download the demo project with the below command:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/Digilent/Eclypse-Z7-SW.git -b OOB/master
The directory created when you run this command (“Eclypse-Z7-SW”), will be used as the Xilinx SDK workspace in later steps.
If you want to download the Vivado and PetaLinux projects at the same time, instead clone the
Eclypse-Z7repository (still using theoob/masterbranch). Instructions on working with these projects, as well as on how to check them out from source, can be found in the vivado_hw_repositories documentation.
Import Projects
Build Projects
Run the App
Create Flash Image
Program Flash
When the project is run, the LEDs will begin cycling, and, whenever one of the buttons is pressed, the message “Button # pressed!” is printed to a connected serial console.
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Once you've run the projects, check out the Eclypse Z7 Git Repositories documentation for more information on how the repository you cloned is structured and how to obtain and build the software project's dependencies.
Additional Resources
All materials related to the use of the Eclypse Z7 can be found on its Resource Center.
For technical support, please visit the FPGA section of the Digilent Forum.