Not possible to set-up SoC Blockset Support Package for AMD FPGA and SoC Devices

Dear all,

I am using ZCU111 directly connected to PC with Ethernet cable and trying to install SoC Blockset Support Package for AMD FPGA and SoC Devices add-on.

When I try to set-up this support package, I must choose between 2 option: update the image on SD card, curretly placed into the board, or download matlab image to SD card, currently sticked to the board.

If I choose the 1st option, I am asked to do it through OS costumizer tool, which, in turn, asks for IPV4 address of the board (I know it), username and password (which are not present at all) and SSH port (which is unknown, bacause nano for some reason is not working in this board OS). I get an error: There was an error connecting to the device at 192.168.2.99 with SSH (Secure Shell) protocol.

If I choose the 2nd option, I do not even know how to setup the board first: which boot mode to choose, should SD card be empty or not? In either case, when I have to choose between Connect Directly to Development computer or Manually enter network settings (whoch somehow points at that it must be SD boot mode with an image present, but then when is new image installed?), I get en error:

Cannot retrieve removable drives: 'wmic' is not recognized as an internal or external comman, operable program or batch file.

The question is how to solve this issue and set-up the addone at least somehow?

Answer 1

[Tom Richter]

Hi Sergei,

The setup for the RFSoC for ZCU111 should be straight forward. I see this in R2024b:

Select the first option and click next. Select your board and click next (this will take time for registering sysroot). Now you can choose how to connect with the board. You are able to choose an IP address and then write the image to the SD (you need to plug it into the PC):

Of course, you PC needs to be able to reach the board. Once you have written to the SD you can plug it back into the board and turn the board on. Try to ping the board from your PC. In MATLAB you can type (example from above):

>> !ping 169.254.0.2

With that you should be good. Try to run one of the simple shipping examples:

Transmit and Receive Tone Using AMD RFSoC Device - Part 1 System Design

Transmit and Receive Tone Using AMD RFSoC Device - Part 2 Deployment

Reach out to Customer Support if you have more question.

Thanks,

Tom

[Sergei]

Dear @Tom Richter, thank you for your answer!

I am following this tutorial now, that is why I faces this issue.

I would like to clarify some things:

1) If the image is downloaded to SD card in PC, why do we have to connect to the board before?

2) You said that after the image is on the SD card, I can plug it in the board and turn it on. But how would I have connected to the board if it was on tand there was no SD card?

3) In any case I get an error "Cannot retrieve removable drives: 'wmic' is not recognized as an internal or external comman, operable program or batch file.". I figured out that I in general do not have WMIC.exe in C:\Windows\System32\wbem, where, as I understand, it usually must be.

I kindly ask you to explain these things.

Thank you again!

[Sergei]

Dear @Tom Richter, thank you again for your answer! I figured out the problem was due to the absence of WMIC Windosw feature, that I had to install manually, and everything worked out!