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This document will focus on using TySOM board in Xilinx Vivado tool which enables adding a custom hardware IP core to the project. This possibility demonstrates the power of Zynq chips and Aldec boards what is out of reach for standard processors. In case of using SDx, we have prepared another tutorial on how to use TySOM boards in Xilinx SDx.

Zynq-7000 SoC does not include the mechanism to store a per-board unique network MAC address. Therefore, a duplicate MAC address can result in network conflicts when several boards are trying to use the same MAC. A U-boot application, which is a typical kernel bootloader for embedded Linux, can be used to assign and keep the unique MAC address using on-board QSPI flash memory.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to run your hardware and software application on the TySOM-1-7Z030 board using a microSD card as the boot method. The microSD card is used when you want your application to be persistent despite any power cycling. In this situation, the board will boot from the microSD card.

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use AWS IoT Greengrass Core with TySOM board and connect the board to the AWS cloud.

Pre-configured SDSoC Board Support Packages (BSP) for Aldec TySOM series boards coupled with FMC-ADAS daughter cards enable x5 BlueEagle camera links with 1280x720 default image resolution. Some reference applications provided by Aldec may require special 960x540 image resolution which can be forced from Linux devicetree description. This document provides step-by-step instructions describing image resolution switch process.

IR sensors are highly useful for contactless human body temperature measurements, which is one of the main safety precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Combining thermal sensor data with standard camera image and AI-based computer vision algorithms allows to automate and significantly improve the overall temperature screening process.

Hardware and software parts of embedded design can be successfully debugged separately using modern EDA tools. But when it takes to run both sides together, new system-level issues may appear. This tutorial shows how to use Xilinx SDK to create Linux userspace application and efficiently co-debug it with Vivado Logic Analyzer

The growing complexity of modern SoC designs along with the complexity of separate reusable IP cores requires SoC engineers to be familiar with the functional verification tools and approaches. This tutorial presents a step-by-step guide to involve Aldec Riviera-PROTM and ALINT-PROTM tools for the TySOM embedded development flow needs.

TySOM™ Educational Kit is designed for the university courses related to the embedded system design, digital system design and hardware design. The kit includes Riviera-PRO™ Advanced Verification Platform and a TySOM embedded development board It also comes with a selection of rich tutorials and reference designs from basic to advanced level to help professors and students start their projects using this kit.

This document describes how to prepare a microSD card to use as a boot medium for running embedded Linux on a TySOM board. The preferable model of microSD card is 16 GB class 10 card. It provides enough disk space and read/write access performance needed to run Desktop Linux based on Ubuntu 12.11 Linaro image. It is assumed that the user is running a Linux based OS host workstation and is familiar with basic command line commands and tools.

When developing on the TySOM platform, there is much to consider. Hardware design, software development, and embedded Linux development are all crucial parts of the TySOM design flow.

Basic Vivado design is intended to provide common board functionality by enabling UART and SDIO peripherals to run embedded Linux in it's minimal possible configuration. In this case, SDIO core is used to support microSD cards as Linux boot source and UART as main system console. Standard Vivado flow includes several stages to create hardware platform for the Zynq-7000 based board. All the reviewed projects in the current document use current basic platform for the further system expansion so the main stages will be covered only once. These stages will be reviewed in the order they appear. Actual used Xilinx Vivado tool version is 2014.2

How to prepare the TySOM-1-7Z030 including board programming and booting operating system.

Details BASIC, ADVANCED BASIC, MEDIA, CAM-2-LCD STREAMING, and ALL-IN-ONE HDMI/LCD Embedded System Design.

Describes how to prepare a microSD card to use as a boot medium for running embedded Linux on a TySOM board, the two main options to set the root file system for an embedded Linux operating system, U-Boot as a second stage boot loader for an embedded Linux OS, etc.

How to prepare the TySOM-2-7Z045 including board programming and booting operating system.

Delivers Reference Design Functional Overview, and outlines First Steps, External Dependencies, Processing System Configuration, Programmable Logic Fabric Customization, Implementation Flow, etc.

Describes how to prepare a microSD card to use as a boot medium for running embedded Linux on a TySOM board, the two main options to set the root file system for an embedded Linux operating system, U-Boot as a second stage boot loader for an embedded Linux OS, etc.