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Spencer Arnold @spencer741

Z-Turn Board Bring Up: Initial Setup And Driver Installation

Setting up ZTurn Board V2: Plugged in, powered on, and identified by Windows. Installed CP2103 drivers, now accessing serial console with PUTTY. Next step: exploring PetaLinux 2018.3 and Vivado.

There aren't many great resources on the Z-turn Board (especially V2) for complete beginners to SoCs with integrated FPGAs, so this is the first part of what I hope to be many on the "bring up" of the board and interesting projects. I hope to get to use the expanded I/O cape as well which will allow me to utilize more of the User I/O pins on the Zinq.

  
  
  Board Overview


The ZTurn board v2 is a SBC (Single Board Computer) dev platform that combines two main systems:

  
  
  Processing System (PS):

Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor running up to 866MHz
1GB DDR3 RAM
Standard peripherals...