A friend of mine who is (was) a Software engineer, gifted me this PYNQ-Z1 board a few years ago when he retired since he knew I messed around with FPGA app boards. It actually surprised him, since I work with FPGAs every day on the job, yet still messed around with them in my off time. "You do this for fun??!". he said and went through his boxes of crap and handed me his PYNQ board which looked untouched. I tried it when he first kicked it down to me in 2017 and was able to program the SD card with the latest and I even connected to the board over the internet. Then I never touched it again until last week. I can't get this thing to do anything but boot. Just getting a wired ethernet port was a day's work since my home lab is nowhere near the modem or wireless router. I had to dig up a wireless router (an ASUS RT-AC66U-B1 ) and configure it as a repeater to get the ethernet and that took quite a bit of time. After all that, I first tried to verify the ethernet ports directly from my Win 10 Laptop's ethernet port to the PYNQ board's ethernet port and failed. Then I tried it from my old PC, which is nearing obsolescence (AMD 900 chipset FX-8350 CPU), and failed again. I have an old laptop that has Win 7 installed, maybe I should try that? There are so many settings for the ethernet ports and I have failed to find the right combination. I set what was shown in the tutorial here, but there are more settings on both my (core i7) laptop and the Desktop, and completely different sets on each. Does anyone care to suggest a setting? I got hit by a car in August and am on disability. My embedded skills are weak and my ZYNQ experience is limited to writing AXI-Lite interface VHDL modules for components in the block design, so it made no difference to me. It was just an Artix-7 as far as I was concerned. I'm 60 and would like to return to work sometime before this new year runs out. I really wanted to get this thing going. The python overlay thing is very interesting to me and my scripting skills (Python, Tcl, Java, and whatever you use to make XML scripts???) are exactly like you would expect a 60-yr old man who started his career in RF to be. I've written lots of C, some C++, and lots of assembly language for various DSPs and microcontrollers. So the familiarity is there, but I need t put it all together if I'm ever to work again. At least my VHDL skills are excellent. This board would help the cause. I'm also very interested in VUnit. I just signed up for a free (paid by NY State) 4-course Coursera sequence in Real-Time Mission Critical Systems. It's very SW-centric and its target board is a Rasberry Pi (B+ or higher). I got one on an eBay auction for $75 with the case, HDMI cable, pwr adapter, etc. Everything you need. I was hoping to get warmed up with this PYNQ-Z1 I can't afford another board because my first disability check hasn't arrived yet and I don't know when (or even if) it ever will. So I would just love to get this PYNQ board going. It's the LCD of resources at my disposal which includes an AC701, ver. 1.0 which is not well supported now that 2.0 is out. Help?
@@cathalmccabe8618 I'll definitely do that, Mr. McCabe. Thanks for replying so promptly! I've watched a few of your video tutorials this week, so you're almost like a celebrity to me at this point, lol. I would really like to make this board work. I postponed my start to the 4-course Real-Time Missio Critical Systems class until the next session, so it opened up some time to really dig into VUnit, Python, and especially this Pynq board.
Hey I can't access github or any other website from my pynq z1 board terminal, I am not behind any proxy. Need to install computer vision library but it says fatal:error 128 cannot resolve the hostname
A friend of mine who is (was) a Software engineer, gifted me this PYNQ-Z1 board a few years ago when he retired since he knew I messed around with FPGA app boards. It actually surprised him, since I work with FPGAs every day on the job, yet still messed around with them in my off time. "You do this for fun??!". he said and went through his boxes of crap and handed me his PYNQ board which looked untouched.
I tried it when he first kicked it down to me in 2017 and was able to program the SD card with the latest and I even connected to the board over the internet. Then I never touched it again until last week. I can't get this thing to do anything but boot. Just getting a wired ethernet port was a day's work since my home lab is nowhere near the modem or wireless router. I had to dig up a wireless router (an ASUS RT-AC66U-B1 ) and configure it as a repeater to get the ethernet and that took quite a bit of time.
After all that, I first tried to verify the ethernet ports directly from my Win 10 Laptop's ethernet port to the PYNQ board's ethernet port and failed. Then I tried it from my old PC, which is nearing obsolescence (AMD 900 chipset FX-8350 CPU), and failed again. I have an old laptop that has Win 7 installed, maybe I should try that?
There are so many settings for the ethernet ports and I have failed to find the right combination. I set what was shown in the tutorial here, but there are more settings on both my (core i7) laptop and the Desktop, and completely different sets on each. Does anyone care to suggest a setting? I got hit by a car in August and am on disability. My embedded skills are weak and my ZYNQ experience is limited to writing AXI-Lite interface VHDL modules for components in the block design, so it made no difference to me. It was just an Artix-7 as far as I was concerned. I'm 60 and would like to return to work sometime before this new year runs out. I really wanted to get this thing going. The python overlay thing is very interesting to me and my scripting skills (Python, Tcl, Java, and whatever you use to make XML scripts???) are exactly like you would expect a 60-yr old man who started his career in RF to be. I've written lots of C, some C++, and lots of assembly language for various DSPs and microcontrollers. So the familiarity is there, but I need t put it all together if I'm ever to work again. At least my VHDL skills are excellent. This board would help the cause. I'm also very interested in VUnit.
I just signed up for a free (paid by NY State) 4-course Coursera sequence in Real-Time Mission Critical Systems. It's very SW-centric and its target board is a Rasberry Pi (B+ or higher). I got one on an eBay auction for $75 with the case, HDMI cable, pwr adapter, etc. Everything you need. I was hoping to get warmed up with this PYNQ-Z1 I can't afford another board because my first disability check hasn't arrived yet and I don't know when (or even if) it ever will.
So I would just love to get this PYNQ board going. It's the LCD of resources at my disposal which includes an AC701, ver. 1.0 which is not well supported now that 2.0 is out.
Help?
Can you post a question to the PYNQ support forum?: discuss.pynq.io/
We can try help you get up and running with your board.
@@cathalmccabe8618 I'll definitely do that, Mr. McCabe. Thanks for replying so promptly! I've watched a few of your video tutorials this week, so you're almost like a celebrity to me at this point, lol.
I would really like to make this board work. I postponed my start to the 4-course Real-Time Missio Critical Systems class until the next session, so it opened up some time to really dig into VUnit, Python, and especially this Pynq board.
Thanks man!
Hey I can't access github or any other website from my pynq z1 board terminal, I am not behind any proxy. Need to install computer vision library but it says fatal:error 128 cannot resolve the hostname
Sorry, I didn't see this. For anyone who may find this, please post any questions to the support forum: discuss.pynq.io/