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ADS54J40EVM: Xilinx eval boards match for ADS54J40EVM

Part Number: ADS54J40EVM
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: TSW14J57EVM

Hi, 

We are looking at connecting the ADS54J40EVM reference design board to a Xilinx UltraScale+ evaluation board - KCU106 or ZCU102 for example. 

I have a couple of questions:

1. Is there a list of FPGA evaluation boards (from Xilinx or Intel) that can work with ADS54J40EVM?

2. What evaluation board was originally used for the initial ADS54J40EVM development?

Thanks,

  • Dessislay,

    The ADS54J40EVM can work with the Xilinx development kits shown below. The EVM also works with the TI TSW14J56EVM (Arria V FPGA) and TSW14J57EVM (Arria 10 FPGA). The TSW14J56EVM  board was used with the initial development. 

    Regards,

    Jim

    Development Kit

    Kintex UltraScale KCU105            

    Kintex-7 KC705                                 

    Virtex-7 VC707                                 

    Virtex UltraScale VCU118             

    Zynq UltraScale ZCU106                

    Zynq-7000 SoC  ZC706                   

    Zynq UltraScale ZCU102                

    Artix AC701                        

  • Perfect, this answers my two questions. In my case I'm planning to use ZCU102 and it is nice to see it on your list above as a board that can work with it.

    I have one more question about ADS54J40EVM, more specifically its input which is AC coupled. I can see that on the schematic there are provisions for bypassing the input transformers and using serial capacitors instead. In my application I need the input to be DC coupled and for that reason I have to replace the capacitors with resistors. See the input path schematic below:

    Do you see any issues with this conversion of the input from AC to DC coupling?  

  • No. Just make sure to remove R6, R7, C6 and C7 to minimize trace stubs. 

  • Thanks for the quick reply!