ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU9EG User Manual Version Record Version Date Release By Description Rev 1.1 2021-07-21 Rachel Zhou First Release Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 2 / 66...
Part 3.8: SFP Interface................48 Part 3.9: CAN Communication Interface..........49 Part 3.10: 485 Communication Interface..........50 Part 3.11: MIPI Camera Interface.............51 Part 3.12: FMC Interface................52 Part 3.13: 40-Pin Expansion Headers............. 57 Part 3.14: JTAG Debug Port..............58 Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 3 / 66...
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Part 3.16: EEPROM and Temperature Sensor........60 Part 3.17: User LEDs..................61 Part 3.18: Keys.................... 62 Part 3.19: DIP Switch Configuration............62 Part 3.20: Power Supply................63 Part 3.21: ALINX Customized Fan............64 Part 3.22: Carrier Board Size Dimension..........66 Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 4 / 66...
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It is a "professional" ZYNQ development platform. For high-speed data transmission and exchange, pre-verification and post-application of data processing is possible. This product is very suitable for students, engineers and other groups engaged in MPSoCs development. Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 5 / 66...
2 SFP Interfaces, 2 SATA Interfaces, 2 UART, 1 SD card slot, 1 FMC Interface, 2-Channel CAN bus interfaces, 2-Channel RS485 bus interfaces, 1 MIPI Camera Interface, 40-pin expansion ports and some keys and LEDs. The following figure shows the structure of the entire development system: Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 7 / 66...
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PS system, and a differential 200MHz crystal oscillator for the PL logic DDR reference clock. M.2 Interface 1 PCIEx1 standard M.2 interface, used to connect M.2 SSD solid state drives, with a communication speed of up to 6Gbps. DP Output Interface Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 8 / 66...
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FMC Expansion Interface 1 standard FMC LPC expansion port, which can be connected to various FMC modules of XILINX or ALINX (HDMI input and output modules, binocular camera modules, high-speed AD modules, etc.). CAN Communication Interface Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx...
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2 Lane MIPI camera input interfaces, used to connect MIPI camera module (AN5641). 40-pin Expansion Header The 40-pin 2.54mm pitch expansion port use for external ALINX modules (binocular camera, TFT LCD screen, high-speed AD module, etc.). The expansion port includes 1 channel of 5V power supply, 2 channels of 3.3V power supply, 3 channels of ground, and 34 channels...
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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU9EG User Manual indicator,1 DONE Configuration indicator and 2 user indicators on the carrier board. KEYs 3 KEYs, include 1 Rest KEY and 2 User KEYs. Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 11 / 66...
IO ports on the PL side (HP I/O: 96, HD I/O: 84). The wiring between the XCZU9EG chip and the interface has been processed with equal length and differential, and the core board size is only 3.15*2.36 (inch), which is very suitable for secondary development. Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 12 / 66...
Ethernet, SD/SDIO, I2C, CAN, UART, GPIO and other interfaces. The PL end contains a wealth of programmable logic units, DSP and internal RAM. . Figure 2-2-1 detailed the Overall Block Diagram of the ZU9EG Chip. Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 13 / 66...
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External storage interface, support 32/64bit DDR4/3/3L, LPDDR4/3 interface Static storage interface, support NAND, 2xQuad-SPI FLASH. High-speed connection interface, support PCIe Gen2 x 4, 2 x USB3.0, Sata 3.1, Display Port, 4 x Tri-mode, Gigabit Ethernet Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 14 / 66...
2GB. The maximum operating speed of the DDR4 SDRAM on the PS side can reach 1200MHz (data rate 2400Mbps), and the 4 DDR4 storage systems are directly connected to the memory interface of the PS BANK504. The Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 15 / 66...
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The hardware connection of DDR4 SDRAM on the PS Side is shown in Figure 2-3-1: Figure 2-3-1: DDR3 DRAM schematic diagram The hardware connection of DDR4 SDRAM on the Pl Side is shown in Figure 2-3-2: Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 16 / 66...
The FPGA core board ACU9EG is equipped with two 256MBit Quad-SPI FLASH chip to form an 8-bit bandwidth data bus, the flash model is MT25QU256ABA1EW9, which uses the 1.8V CMOS voltage standard. Due to Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 22 / 66...
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PS ports need to be configured as the QSPI FLASH interface. Figure 2-4-1 shows the QSPI Flash in the schematic. Figure 2-4-1: QSPI Flash in the schematic Configure chip pin assignments: Signal Name Pin Name Pin Number MIO5_QSPI0_SS_B PS_MIO5_500 AM15 Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 23 / 66...
PS part of the ZYNQ UltraScale+. In the system design, it is necessary to configure the GPIO port function of the PS side as an EMMC interface. Figure 2-5-1 shows the part of eMMC Flash in the schematic diagram. Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 24 / 66...
The core board provides reference clock and RTC real-time clock for PS system and PL logic respectively, so that PS system and PL logic can work independently. The schematic diagram of the clock circuit design is shown in Figure 2-6-1: Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 25 / 66...
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PS system. The crystal is connected to the PS_PADI_503 and PS_PADO_503 pins of BANK503 of the ZYNQ chip. The schematic diagram is shown in Figure 2-6-2: Figure 2-6-2: Passive Crystal Oscillator for RTC Clock pin assignment: Signal Name PS_PADI_503 PS_PADO_503 Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 26 / 66...
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(MRCC) of PL BANK64. This global clock can be used to drive the DDR4 controller and user logic circuits in the FPGA. The schematic diagram of this clock source is shown in Figure 2-6-4 Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 27 / 66...
XCZU9EG chip. For the TPS6508640 power supply design, please refer to the power supply chip manual. The design block diagram is as follows : Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 28 / 66...
BANK66, 67 is determined by the VCCO_66 and VCCO_67 power supply of the carrier board, the carrier board provides +1.8V by default. Pin assignment of board to board connector J29 Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 30 / 66...
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J30 is connected to the transceiver signal of BANK505 MGT, MIO of PS, VCCO_66, VCCO_67 and +12V power supply. The MIO level of PS is 1.8V standard J29 Pin Signal Name J29 Pin Signal Name Number Number 505_TX0_P AB29 505_CLK0_P AA27 505_TX0_N AB30 505_CLK0_N AA28 Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 32 / 66...
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BANK66, 67 is determined by the VCCO_66 and VCCO_67 power supply of the carrier board, the carrier board provides +1.8V by default. J31 Pin Signal Name J31 Pin Signal Name Number Number FPGA_TCK POWER_SW FPGA_TMS PS_MODE3 FPGA_TDO PS_MODE2 FPGA_TDI Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 34 / 66...
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J32 connects the IO of BANK47, 48, 49 and the transceiver signal of BANK128, 129, 130. J32 Pin Signal Name Pin Number J32 Pin Signal Name Pin Number B48_L5_P B48_L10_N B48_L5_N B48_L10_P B48_L11_P B49_L9_N B48_L11_N B49_L9_P B49_L8_N B47_L12_N B49_L8_P B47_L12_P B47_L11_N B49_L4_N B47_L11_P B49_L4_P Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 36 / 66...
6Gbps. The M.2 interface uses the M key slot, which only supports PCI-E, not SATA. When users choose SSD solid state drives, they need to choose PCIE type SSD solid state drives. Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 39 / 66...
AA28 PCIE Reference Clock Negative PCIE_RSTn_MIO37 PS_MIO37 PCIE Reset Signal Part 3.3: DP Interface The AXU15EG FPGA development board has a standard DisplayPort output display interface for video image display. The interface supports VESA Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 40 / 66...
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Transmit Positive Low bits of DP Data GT0_DP_TX_N 505_TX3_N Transmit Negative High bits of DP Data GT1_DP_TX_P 505_TX2_P Transmit Positive High bits of DP Data GT1_DP_TX_N 505_TX2_N Transmit Negative DP Reference Clock 505_DP_CLKP 505_CLK2_P Positive Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 41 / 66...
USB Slave peripherals (such as USB mouse, keyboard or U disk) at the same time. The schematic diagram of USB3.0 connection is shown as 3-4-1: Figure 3-4-1: USB3.0 Interface Schematic Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 42 / 66...
When the KSZ9031RNX is powered on, it will detect the level status of some specific IOs to determine its own operating mode. Table 3-5-1 describes the default settings after the GPHY chip is powered on. Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 43 / 66...
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ZYNQ and PHY chip KSZ9031RNX is communicated through RMII bus, and the transmission clock is 25Mhz. Data is sampled on the rising edge and falling samples of the clock. Figure 3-5-1: ZYNQ PS system and GPHY connection diagram Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 44 / 66...
USB to serial port ZYNQ pin assignment: Signal name Pin Name Pin Number Description PS_UART_TX PS_MIO43 PS Uart Data Output PS_UART_RX PS_MIO42 PS Uart Data Input PL_UART_TX B50_L4_P PL Uart Data Output PL_UART_RX B50_L4_N PL Uart Data Input Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 46 / 66...
The CAN transceiver chip selected TI's SN65HVD232C chip for user CAN communication services. The connection of the CAN transceiver chip on the PS side is show as Figure 3-9-1 Figure 3-9-1: Connection diagram of CAN transceiver chip on PS side Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 49 / 66...
The 485 communication pins are assigned as follows: Signal Name Pin Name Pin Number Description PL_485_TXD1 B44_L10_N AG13 The 1 Channel 485 Transceiver PL_485_RXD1 B44_L4_P AL13 The 1 Channel 485 Receiver PL_485_DE1 B44_L10_P AG14 The 1 Channel 485 Transmit Enable Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 50 / 66...
Part 3.11: MIPI Camera Interface The AXU15EG carrier board includes a MIPI camera interface, which can be used to connect with the ALINX Brand MIPI OV5640 camera module AN5641. MIPI interface 15PIN FPC connector, 2 LANE data and 1 pair of clock, connected to the differential IO pin of BANK67, other control signals are connected to the IO of BANK43, level standard It is 3.3V.
Part 3.12: FMC Interface The AXU15EG FPGA Carrier board has a standard FMC HPC expansion port that can be connected to various FMC modules of XILINX or ALINX (HDMI input and output modules, binocular camera modules, high-speed AD modules, etc.). The FMC expansion port contains 36 pairs of differential IO signals and 8 pairs of GTX Transceivers.
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B67_L22_P FMC Reference 5 Data P FMC_LA05_N B67_L22_N FMC Reference 5 Data N FMC_LA06_P B67_L17_P FMC Reference 6 Data P FMC_LA06_N B67_L17_N FMC Reference 6 Data N FMC_LA07_P B67_L8_P FMC Reference 7 Data P Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 55 / 66...
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B66_L24_P FMC Reference 23 Data P FMC_LA23_N B66_L24_N FMC Reference 23 Data N FMC_LA24_P B66_L8_P FMC Reference 24 Data P FMC_LA24_N B66_L8_N FMC Reference 24 Data N FMC_LA25_P B66_L5_P FMC Reference 25 Data P Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 56 / 66...
Part 3.13: 40-Pin Expansion Headers The carrier board is reserved with one 0.1inch spacing standard 40-pin expansion ports J50, which is used to connect the ALINX modules or the external circuit designed by the user. The expansion port has 40 signals, of which 1-channel 5V power supply, 2-channel 3.3 V power supply, 3-channle...
ZYNQ UltraScale+ chip by plugging and unplugging under power, we aded a protection diode to the JTAG signal to ensure that the signal voltage is within the range accepted by the FPGA and avoid damage to the ZYNQ UltraScale+ chip. Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 58 / 66...
The BT1 on the development board is a battery Socket. After we put the coin battery, even the system is off, the coin battery can also power the RTC system and provide continuous time information. Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 59 / 66...
The EEPROM and temperature sensor are mounted on the Bank500 MIO of ZYNQ UltraScale+ through the I2C bus. Figure 3-16-1 is the schematic diagram of EEPROM and temperature sensor Figure 3-16-1: EEPROM and Sensor connection diagram Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 60 / 66...
Pin assignment of user LED lights Signal Name ZYNQ Pin Name ZYNQ Pin Number Description PS_LED PS_MIO44 PS User LED Light PL_LED1 B44_L4_N AM13 PL User LED1 Light PL_LED2 B44_L3_N AP12 PL User LED2 Light Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 61 / 66...
ZYNQ system. The AXU15EG system development platform supports 4 startup modes. The 4 startup modes are JTAG debug mode, QSPI FLASH, EMMC and SD2.0 card startup mode. After Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 62 / 66...
DC12V is converted into +5V, +3.3V, +1.8V, and +1.2V, through one-way DC/DC power chip TPS54620 and three-way DC/DC power chip MP1482. The schematic diagram of the power supply design on the board is shown in Figure 3-20-1: Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 63 / 66...
Ethernet, USB2.0, SD, DP, CAN, RS485 +1.2V Ethernet Part 3.21: ALINX Customized Fan Because ZU9EG generates a lot of heat when it works normally, we add a heat sink and fan to the chip on the board to prevent the chip from overheating.
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The fan has been screwed to the FPGA development board before leaving the factory. The power of the fan is connected to the socket of J55. The red is positive and the black is negative. Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 65 / 66...
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