How ADI DataX™ Enables Scaling and Rapid Prototyping

In this workflow, attention shifts away from where the data is born and toward what can be done with it. By the time RF samples reach the application layer, ADI DataX™ has already aligned the software stack across the design journey, absorbing platform‑specific complexity and allowing development to proceed cleanly at the system and application level. This gives developers confidence that the software they build during research and characterization remains deployable as the system moves through prototyping and into product development.

As a result, a single RF application can be developed once and then exercised across multiple platforms and software environments, with ADI DataX™ providing the common foundation and the surrounding tools, taking ownership of complexity at each layer enabling scale and deployment continuity without friction.

HDL Reference Designs: Absorbing FPGA and data path complexity

HDL is an essential part of the ADI DataX™ stack, providing the foundation that connects RF hardware to the software layers above. The reference design is delivered as part of a cohesive stack that integrates drivers, abstraction layers, and example application code, ensuring that the same data path used during early evaluation can be carried forward into scalable system designs.

By treating FPGA logic, drivers, and application software as a single, validated system, the HDL reference designs support rapid experimentation while maintaining a clear path toward production‑ready architectures.

Kuiper Linux: Absorbing OS and platform complexity

Kuiper Linux provides an ADI DataX™ enabled operating system that:

• Integrates drivers, tools, and libraries needed to interact with ADI RF hardware
• Supports multiple compute targets, allowing the same workflow to extend across platform of choice
• Enables developers to start directly from application execution rather than system bring‑up

This removes the need to build custom Linux images or debug low‑level integration, enabling developers to start experimenting early and carry the same environment forward as the system matures toward deployment.

IIO: Absorbing hardware to software integration

As part of the ADI DataX™ stack, IIO provides a stable and consistent interface between RF hardware and user space applications.

• Stream RF samples through a consistent API that can be used in multiple ecosystem environments, including MATLAB, pyadi and many other tools.
• Decouple applications from hardware locality, allowing RF data to be accessed locally or remotely without changing application logic
• Allow applications to consume RF data without knowing how or where it is physically sourced

This makes it possible to reuse application logic on the preferred platform without rewriting data‑handling code.

Application & Ecosystem Layer: One Application Path Across Tools and Platforms

At the application layer, ADI DataX™ exposes RF data in a form that is immediately consumable by modern software ecosystems, MATLAB on RF‑SoM platforms.

• On Jupiter, ADI’s IIO Controller Operator is used to configure and control the SDR from within the processing graph, with libiio handling hardware abstraction.
• On RFSOM, MATLAB accesses RF data through the same ADI DataX™ aligned interfaces, enabling fast algorithm iteration and easy comparison across platforms.

Learn More

To get started with this demo, follow the GitHub documentation, which provides a step-by-step Getting Started guide, hardware requirements, and setup instructions.

To explore additional ADI DataX demos and learn more about the broader DataX framework, visit the ADI DataX Solution Center.