How to send a 500MHz signal via SMA using GTX Transceiver on Zynq-7000 (XC7Z035)?
I am working with an AMD Xilinx Zynq-7000 SoC (XC7Z035) board and need to send a 500MHz signal through the board's SMA output. The problem is that we are using the GTX Transceiver Wizard to generate this signal, and it is proving to be extremely complex.
I could barely find any tutorials on YouTube about it, the Xilinx manual is also quite hard to follow on this point, and there are almost no articles or forums discussing this specific use case. This has left me wondering whether the GTX Transceiver is simply not the most common path for this kind of application, since the scarcity of material suggests that few people use this flow.
I am hoping to hear from anyone who has been through this. Is the GTX Transceiver really necessary to generate a 500MHz signal on this board, or is there a more direct path, for example through some clocking IP or an external DAC? Does anyone have a reference, tutorial, or example project showing this GTX Wizard configuration flow in practice? Is there an alternative connector or approach you would recommend for sending this signal to the oscilloscope without relying on the GTX?
Any pointer, link, or even a suggestion that I am overcomplicating this would help a lot. Thanks in advance.