Thursday, December 3, 2015

Talking to ZedBoard/Secure Digital (SD) Card mounting and un-mounting

Setting Jumpers

MI05 and MI04 must be set to High (1) as shown in ZedBoard image (Image 1)



Image 1


Voltage Supply Pin or GND is indicated by VADJ and either select 2V5 or 1V8 (seen in Image 2)


Image 2



Now SD Card and the ZedBoard

Opening SDK and connecting the ZedBoard to the terminal properly will prompt: zynq> 

The ZedBoard will be lighten up accordingly to what Image 3 shows. 

Image 3


Mounting the SD Card command:

zynq> mount /dev/mmcb1k0p1 /mnt

Un-mounting the SD Card command:

zynq> unmount  /mnt

The image below shows the mounting process from terminal in SDK (Image 4)



Image 4

Proper command to poweroff the ZedBoard from the terminal:

zynq> poweroff

Image 5 shows this process in the terminal below.



Image 5


OPEN SOURCE LINUX

OPEN SOURCE LINUX

Our Command: opt/Xilinx/SDK/2013.4/gnu/arm/lin/bin

Steps:

1. Need to fetch source codes and then fetch linux kernel

in the terminal: git clone git://github.com/Xilinx/linux-xlnx.git
1.75GB

2. Now U-Boot: git clone git://github.com/Xilinx/U-boot-xlnx.gir

3. Device Tree Gen: git clone git://github.com/Xilinx/device-tree.git

Note: Need to add GPU core on PL


Fall Semester 2015 ZedBoard Research