Dear sir
I am working on designing a software-defined radio. As per our initial strategy, we are following math work Simulink model HW/SW CO DESIGN using AD9361. In order to implement the algorithms on Zynq radio platform for transmitting and receiving of QPSK signal both in software as well as hardware, we have to configure the Zynq board. To work with the hardware and software co-design model, we downloaded all the required product packages starting from HDL coder to communication toolbox support package for Xilinx Zynq based radio. We followed all the steps as mentioned in that resepctive model, but could not configure our target FPGA board. For better clarification, I have mentioned below some of the issues that we faced. 1) Communication support toolbox: The board that we are currently using is Xilinx Zynq-7000 SoC ZC702 board which is to be integrated with FM-COMMS3 (AD9361). After installing the communication toolbox for Xilinx radio platform, we tried to to set up the hardware. While selecting the hardware, we could not find ZC702 board though it supports ZC706 and FMCOMMS2/3/4 as well as other Zed boards, ADI RF SOM, etc. We still tried ZC706 and FMCOMMS2/3/4 as a trial, but it failed.
2) ERRORS: The errors while booting the SD card , and verifying the connection after it was configured with Mathworks image for SDR hardware are listed below.
testConnection(dev);
## Pinging radio IP address
Error using comm.zynqradioshared.dev.Base/testConnection
There was no response to a 'ping' command at address
Pinging 192.168.3.2 with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Packets: Sent = 3, Received = 0, Lost = 3 (100% loss),.
Saw following host response:
192.168.3.2
This could be due to:
- an unsuccessful boot from SD card image.
- an improperly configured and/or incompatible network card on the host
- host port blocking or anti-virus software.
Confirm the following:
- The network card is operating properly for gigabit Ethernet connection.
- SD card has the correct image and is inserted properly on the radio hardware.
- Host port blocking and antivirus software are turned off.
When properly connected, one LED should be constantly active on the Ethernet
port on the radio hardware.
