How I Stopped Coding Repetitive Service Components with Kong

For the last 10 years, I have been building RESTful services as the feature team member on projects assigned to me via consulting opportunities or as a full-time corporate employee. This represents one-third of my career and is what I have enjoyed the most.

However, in all of those years, when the system is part of an application modernization initiative, I feel like I'm learning the same lessons over and over:

Create a BOOT.bin, Program an SD Card, and Boot a ZC706 Using Windows

This post shows you how to create a BOOT.bin with a Hello World bare-metal application and a bitstream created in [Run Hello World on a ZC702], how to program the BOOT.bin onto the SD Card using Windows (copy it to the SD card), and how to boot the ZC702 from the SD card and see output from the serial port.

Before You Get Started

Generate Bitstreams, Hello World Binaries, and Test Everything

This post assumes you've generated the bitstreams, Hello World binaries, and have tested everything as listed in [Run Hello World on a ZC702], but on the ZC706. All of the instructions are the same except for two things: