Emulation of ZCU216 Xilinx Evaluation board in software?

[dougAd42]

Is it possible to emulate the ZCU216 Evaluation board in Matlab Labview or any other software? I receive the board a month from now and must be prepared to deploy the hardware design quickly to the board. Any advice or possible alternatives would be greatly appreciated! Thank you very much!

[GerdW]

Hi doug,

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@dougAd42 wrote:

Is it possible to emulate the ZCU216 Evaluation board in Matlab Labview or any other software? I receive the board a month from now and must be prepared to deploy the hardware design quickly to the board. Any advice or possible alternatives would be greatly appreciated! Thank you very much!

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You want to emulate a complete µC board using a programming language like LabVIEW or MATLAB?

What exactly do you want to achieve by creating such a tool?

[dougAd42]

I was hoping to design the transmitters and receivers of my project using the chains of ADCs, DACs and transceivers housed on the board (perhaps using the Labview block structure) and simulate them in conjunction with communication algorithms designed in Matlab. Once I receive the physical board, I could upload the hardware design. Do you think this is possible or if another feasible approach exists? Thanks for the reply!

[GerdW]

Hi doug,

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@dougAd42 wrote:

I was hoping to design the transmitters and receivers of my project using the chains of ADCs, DACs and transceivers housed on the board (perhaps using the Labview block structure) and simulate them in conjunction with communication algorithms designed in Matlab.

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LabVIEW is a programming language, so yes you could "design your hardware as a LabVIEW simulation". It even brings an API to communicate with MATLAB.

But is the effort to create the needed LabVIEW VIs worth when compared with the (to be) expected results?