Xilinx ML501 Reference Designs

Your ML501 Evaluation Platform is shipped with a number of demonstration designs pre-installed on the Compact Flash card, Platform Flash, and Linear Flash memories. The ML501 Getting Started Tutorial describes how to quickly get started using your ML501. This tutorial also contains a number of hands-on user lab exercises to help you explore the features of your ML501.

• ML501 Getting Started Tutorial (PDF)
• ML501 Lab Resources (ZIP)

ML501 Reference Design & Stand-Alone Applications

The ML501 reference design utilizes the Embedded Development Kit to create a processing solution based on the IBM CoreConnect™ bus infrastructure. A MicroBlaze™ soft-processor system is shown that leverages the variety of peripherals offered through the EDK IP catalog.

Built upon the ML501 reference design and EDK's automatically generated library of device drivers and platform support, these Stand-Alone software applications can be used to gain familiarity with the EDK software development tools while exercising features on the ML501 board.

Please see the general EDK Answer Record # 24445 for release notes, errata, and more specific Answer Records related to EDK 9.1i SP1 and the general ISE Answer Record # 24549 for ISE 9.1i SP3.

• ML501 EDK Reference Design & Stand-Alone Applications
• ML501 Overview and Setup (PDF)
• ML501 Stand-Alone Applications QuickStart (PDF)
• ML501 Stand-Alone Applications (PDF)

ML501 Base System Builder Design

The Xilinx Base System Builder (BSB) wizard helps users quickly build a working embedded processing system design through an easy to use GUI interface. The XPS project created by BSB can be run as generated or further enhanced with peripherals added from the EDK IP catalog.

• ML501 BSB Design

ML501 Configuration Methods

The ML501 can be used to demonstrate a variety of Virtex™-5 configuration methods. Initial board bring-up and testing can be accomplished with the Xilinx tools, a JTAG cable, along with the bitstreams and ELF files from the ML501 standalone applications page. Subsequently, ACE files containing both hardware and software initialization components can be generated and loaded from a CompactFlash card by the onboard System ACE CF controller. A new Virtex-5 configuration method loads bitstreams directly from a linear flash memory device. Demonstrating the various Virtex-5 configuration methods is user-selectable through a DIP switch.

• ML501 Flash Images
• Virtex-5 Configuration User Guide (PDF)