And Another Alternative

I no longer have to look into figuring out how to code up or wire up the SZG-DUALSFP daughter board to the Digilent Genesys Zynq UltraScale MPSoC+ board.

Why? Because I have a really old board that cost only $99 dollars that gives me direct access to the pins of an old 10/100 MBit PHY! That’s the Arty Artix-35T mini board!

Anyway… I found a corresponding NI “no longer national instruments” board that targets the same family of FPGAs so I can get started.

What that means is:

• Create a LabVIEW FPGA project that targets the CompactRIO 9053 board
• Use the LabVIEW FPGA IP Export the Netlist utility to get a design checkpoint
• Import that checkpoint in to my Arty project
• Generate an Arty Bitstream
• Load it to the FPGA
• Enjoy my FIX parsing code on this board with full ethernet connectivity.

References:

• List of NI devices and the corresponding Xilinx FPGA that it uses:
  • https://www.ni.com/en-us/support/documentation/supplemental/18/slices-on-an-fpga-chip.html
• Arty A7-35T FPGA Development Board for Makers and Hobbyists
  • https://store.digilentinc.com/arty-a7-artix-7-fpga-development-board-for-makers-and-hobbyists/

However, the Genesys Board will still remain in my consciousness and will be a secondary hobbyist project that I will look into and play with whenever I am tired of the Arty board…