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ADS5560EVM: Altera or Xilinx compatible board

david sun77114
Expert 2162 points
Part Number: ADS5560EVM
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: TIDA-00069, ADS5560, ADS4249

Dear TI expert, 

I am looking for an evaluation platform for ADS5560EVM, in TI's document, it mentioned "High Speed ADC to FMC (Xilinx) Header Adapter Card " and "High Speed ADC to HSMC (Altera) Header Adaptor Card "

but inside the document, it only introduced compatible Adapter card, but none of them mentioned which card on the Altera or Xilinx side. 

to be more specific, if I use ADS5560EVM and an Altera development kits to build a DAQ, what is the model number of the Altera( or Xilinx) development kits? I am not familiar with the FPGA evaluation boards, is the FMC Header a standard interface on most of the evaluation board. same as Altera that HSMC header is a default.  

is there a supporting example provide TI or FPGA vendor that can build a basic working demo platform?

Thanks,

David Sun

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    TI__Mastermind 29220 points

    Hi,

    I think you would want to ask your FPGS vendor for the recommended FPGA development platform to use.  

    we have been using the 2-segment Samtec connector on our LVDS ADC EVMs for many years now, with a pinout we defined to work with the capture cards that we have made available through the years such as the TSW1400 (altera) capture card, or the TSW1405 (lattice) capture card, or the now obsolete TSW1200 (Xilinx) capture card. 

    Altera has been using a Samtec connector on their development platforms but it has been a 3-segment connector.   Thus we made available the bridge card to let our EVMs connect to the Alter development platforms.    We did not choose the pin assignment into the Altera connector - we had an Altera person do the pin assignment since they know their platforms best and we built the adapter accordingly.   Likewise for the Xilinx we had a Xilinx person choose the pin assignment into the FMC connectors that they use since they know their platforms best.   Since that time both vendors have come out with many newer platforms but they should still use the same connectors.    You wouldn't want just any platform with an FMC connector because there are now FMC pinouts defined for the newer high speed serial JESD204b links instead of LVDS - thus the recommendation that you let the FPGA vendor recommend the best platform.  

    There is one example that you might want to look at though - TI Design TIDA-00069 is an example of an LVDS ADC interface plus an LVDS DAC interface into an Altera FPGA.   http://www.ti.com/tool/tida-00069    There is example firmware source code for the ADS4249 ADC that could be easily modified to be an ADC interface for the ADS5560 instead by adding one more LVDS pair.  But that example is into our TSW1400, not an FPGA development platform.  We do not have examples of our ADCs into all the different platforms that are available out there. 

    Regards,

    Richard P.

  • 0 in reply to Richard Prentice
    Expert 2162 points
    thank you very much.