4 Running the Demo

The PolarFire Evaluation Board comes with a preprogrammed JESD204B standalone demo design. The demo operates in loopback mode to establish a standalone JESD interface demo that does not require analog-to-digital (ADC) or digital-to-analog converters (DAC) by looping data between the TX and RX IP cores for JESD204B.

In order to run the demo, install the JESD204B_GUI application and set up the board as outlined in the following steps. For detailed instructions, see DG0755 (PolarFire FPGA JESD204B Standalone Interface Demo Guide).
  1. Connect the power supply cable to the J9 connector on the board.
  2. Connect the USB cable from the host PC to the J5 connector (FTDI port) on the board.
  3. Power on the board using the SW3 slide switch.