Zybo XADC Demo

This simple XADC demo is a verilog project made to demonstrate usage of the Analog to Digital Converter hardware of the Zybo

• An XADC IP core is used to read the voltage differences of each of the four vertical pairs of pins - channels - of the XADC Pmod Port.
• The LED associated with a channel brightens when that channel's voltage increases.
• The four user switches control which XADC channels will be read.

• Basic familiarity with Vivado
  • This experience can be found by walking through our “Getting Started with Vivado” guide

• Zybo Zynq board
• Micro-USB cable
• Wires and a voltage to measure

• Vivado Design Suite 2016.X
  • Newer/older versions can be used, but the procedure may vary slightly

Zybo XADC Project Repository – ZIP Archive GIT Repo

1) Follow the Using Digilent Github Demo Projects Tutorial. This is an HDL design project, and as such does not support Vivado SDK, select the tutorial options appropriate for a Vivado-only design. Return to this guide when prompted to check for additional hardware requirements and setup.

2) In order to use the demo, you will need to connect a circuit to the XADC Pmod Port in order to measure a voltage. The following example shows a voltage divider that produces each voltage between 0 and 1 Volt in increments of 0.1 Volts. This circuit uses a chain of ten 1KOhm resistors in series with two parallel 47KOhm resistors tied to the 3V3 and GND pins of the XADC Pmod header to create these voltages. Each of the 'n' pins, the lower row, of the XADC port are connected to ground.

Important

Voltages to be measured should only be in the range of 0 to 1 Volt.

3) Once you have connected your circuit to your Zybo, return to the Github Demo Projects tutorial to finish programming your board.

1) Each channel will control the brightness of an LED as shown in the following table.

2) Specific channels can be enabled and disabled by toggling the user switch that is adjacent to it's LED.

3) Changing voltages through reconfiguring the circuit while the demo is running is fine. If you built the example circuit above, feel free to move jumpers around to test out the different nodes of the voltage divider.