reVISION Getting Started Guide 2018.2
1. Introduction	2. Overview	3. Software Tools and System Requirements	4. Design File Hierarchy
5. Installation and Operating Instructions	6. Tool Flow Tutorials	7. Run the Application	8. Platform Details
9. Known Issues and Limitations		10. Additional References

3 Software Tools and System Requirements

3.1 Hardware

Required:

ZCU104 Evaluation Board, or
ZCU102 Evaluation Board
- rev 1.0 with ES2 silicon or
- rev 1.0 with production silicon
Micro-USB cable, connected to laptop or desktop computer for the terminal emulator
SD card (ZCU102) or
micro-SD card (ZCU104)

Optional (needed for live I/O examples):

Monitor with DisplayPort or HDMI input supporting one of the following resolutions:
- 3840x2160 or
- 1920x1080 or
- 1280x720
Display Port cable (DP certified) or HDMI cable
Leopard LI-IMX274MIPI-FMC
Stereolabs ZED USB stereo camera
e-con Systems See3CAM_CU30_CHL_TC USB camera
Xilinx USB3 micro-B adapter
- adapter shipped with ZCU102 rev 1.0 + production silicon
- adapter needs to be purchased separately from Whizz for ZCU102 rev 1.0 with ES2 silicon
- this adapter is NOT required with the ZCU104 board.
HDMI video source with output supporting one of the following resolutions:
- 3840x2160 or
- 1920x1080 or
- 1280x720

Required:

Linux or Windows host machine with a minimum memory of 32GB for tool flow tutorials (see UG1238 for supported OS version).
SDSoC Development Environment version 2018.2 (see UG1238 for installation instructions)
Serial terminal emulator e.g. teraterm
7zip utility to extract the design zip file (Windows only).

📌 NOTE Other zip utilities may produce incorrect results!
Design zip files:
- ZCU102 ES2 silicon: zcu102-es2-rv-ss-2018-2.zip
- ZCU102 Production silicon: zcu102-rv-ss-2018-2.zip
- ZCU104 Production silicon: zcu104-rv-ss-2018-2.zip

Important: Certain material in this reference design is separately licensed by third parties and may be subject to the GNU General Public License version 2, the GNU Lesser General License version 2.1, or other licenses. The Third Party Library Sources zip file provides a copy of separately licensed material that is not included in the reference design.
You will need only the SDSoC license to build the design. You can evaluate for 60-days or purchase it here.

Steps to generate the license:

Log in here with your work E-mail address (If you do not yet have an account, follow the steps under Create Account)
Generate a license from “Create New Licenses” by checking "SDSoC Environment, 60 Day Evaluation License"
Under system information, give the host details.
Proceed until you get the license agreement and accept it.
The License (.lic file) will be sent to the email-id mentioned in the login details.
Copy the license file locally and give the same path in the SDSoC license manager.

The reference design has been tested successfully with the following user-supplied components.

Monitors:

HDMI Sources:

Make/Model	Resolutions
Nvidia Shield TV	3840x2160, 1920x1080
OTT TV BOX M8N	3840x2160, 1920x1080, 1280x720
Roku 2 XS	1920x1080, 1280x720
TVix Slim S1 Multimedia Player	1920x1080, 1280x720

USB3 Cameras:

Make/Model	Resolutions
ZED stereo camera	3840x1080, 2560x720
See3CAM_CU30	1920x1080, 1280x720

DisplayPort Cables:

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