• AD7327

• EVAL-AD7327SDZ

This document presents the steps to setup an environment for using the EVAL-AD7327SDZ evaluation board together with the Xilinx KC705 FPGA board and the Xilinx Embedded Development Kit (EDK). Below is presented a picture of the EVAL-AD7327SDZ Evaluation Board with the Xilinx KC705 board.

Below is presented a picture of SDP-B Controller Board with the EVAL-AD7327SDZ Evaluation Board.

The EVAL-AD7327SDZ evaluation board is a full-featured evaluation board,designed to allow the user to easily evaluate all features of the AD7327.

The AD7327 is an 8-channel, 12-bit plus sign successive approximation ADC designed on the iCMOS (industrial CMOS) process. iCMOS is a process combining high voltage silicon with submicron CMOS and complementary bipolar technologies. It enables the development of a wide range of high performance analog ICs capable of 33 V operation in a footprint that no previous generation of high voltage parts could achieve. Unlike analog ICs using conventional CMOS processes, iCMOS components can accept bipolar input signals while providing increased performance, dramatically reduced power consumption, and reduced package size. The AD7327 can accept true bipolar analog input signals. The AD7327 has four software-selectable input ranges: ±10 V, ±5 V, ±2.5 V, and 0 V to +10 V. Each analog input channel can be independently programmed to one of the four input ranges. The analog input channels on the AD7327 can be programmed to be single-ended, true differential, or pseudo differential.

• AD7327 Product Info - pricing, samples, datasheet
• EVAL-AD7327SDZ evaluation board user guide is included on the CD as part of the Evaluation Board Kit
• Xilinx KC705 FPGA board

The first objective is to ensure that you have all of the items needed and to install the software tools so that you are ready to create and run the evaluation project.

• Xilinx KC705 FPGA board
• FMC-SDP adapter board
• EVAL-AD7327SDZ evaluation board

• Xilinx ISE 13.2
• A UART terminal (ex. TeraTerm / Hyperterminal).

• Reference Design Files

The following table presents a short description the reference design archive contents.

• Use the FMC-SDP interposer to connect the ADI evaluation board to the Xilinx KC705 board on the FMC LPC connector.
• Connect the JTAG and UART cables to the KC705 and power up the FPGA board.
• Start IMPACT, and double click “Boundary Scan”. Right click and select Initialize Chain. The program should recognize the Kintex 7 device (see screenshot below).

• Program the KC705 FPGA using the “Bit/download.bit” file provided in the reference design archive.
• Power the ADI evaluation board.
• Start a UART terminal and set the baud rate to 115200 bps.

At this point everything is set up and it is possible to start the evaluation of the ADI hardware. To capture data from the ADC run the data_capture.bat script located in the DataCapture folder from the reference design .zip file. Every time the script is run a new batch of 8192 samples are read from the ADC at the ADC's maximum sampling rate and saved into the Acquisition.csv file located in the same folder as the data capture script. On the UART terminal messages will be displayed to show the status of the program running on the FPGA as shown in the picture below.