Setting up internet connectivity and downloading packages on Xilinx Pynq Z2 and ZCU-104 boards…

Setting up internet connectivity and downloading packages on Xilinx Pynq Z2 and ZCU-104 boards involves these steps:

Setting up internet connectivity on FPGA boards for installing TensorFlow and PyTorch packages can be challenging. Here’s a comprehensive guide outlining the process to configure internet access effectively for package installation.

After a successful MicroSD Card Setup

To make your own PYNQ Micro-SD card:

• Download the appropriate PYNQ image for your board
• Unzip the image
• Write the image to a blank Micro SD card (minimum 8GB recommended)

Our primary objective is to establish internet connectivity on the board, namely, to ping google.com and acquire certain libraries ..….

Connect your board with the following connections

Now Open Control panel ->Network and Internet ->Network and Sharing Center (you should have an active internet connection before this in your PC or laptop, mine was WIFI)

Open Ethernet 2 (in my case), Open Properties ->Ipv4 then following then choose default settings as shown below:

After this open WIFI (your active internet connection source ) then click on Properties->Sharing, and check both the boxes as shown below :

After that Open again the Ethernet option and click on Properties -> IPv4 The IP address will be changed automatically as shown below :

After this install Tera-Term https://osdn.net/projects/ttssh2/downloads/74780/teraterm-4.106.exe/

Open Tera-Term with the Serial option selected as shown below :

Change to your available Port and set Speed as 115200 and others as a default setting and click on New open. While the Pynq Board will look like as shown in the picture below:

The Tera-Term window will look like the below:

After this type:

ping google.com

Now you can also install libraries using the pip3 command .cheers!✨