ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual Version Record Version Date Release By Description Rev 1.1 2021-07-28 Rachel Zhou First Release Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx 2 / 68...
ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual Table of Contents Version Record.......................2 Part 1: FPGA Development Board Introduction..........6 Part 2: ACU7EV Core Board................11 Part 2.1: ACU7EV Core Board Introduction..........11 Part 2.2: ZYNQ Chip...................12 Part 2.3: DDR4 DRAM................14 Part 2.4: QSPI Flash...................23...
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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual Part 3.15: 485 Communication Interface..........60 Part 3.16: JTAG Debug Port..............61 Part 3.17: Real-time Clock.................62 Part 3.18: EEPROM and Temperature Sensor........63 Part 3.19: User LEDs..................64 Part 3.20: Keys.................... 65 Part 3.21: DIP Switch Configuration............65 Part 3.22: Power Supply................
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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual This MPSoCs FPGA development platform adopts the core board + carrier board mode, which is convenient for users to use the core board for secondary development. The core board uses XILINX Zynq UltraScale+ EV chip ZU7EV...
ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual Part 1: FPGA Development Board Introduction The entire structure of the AXU7EV PGA development board is inherited from our consistent core board + carrier board model. A high-speed inter-board connector is used between the core board and the carrier board.
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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual Figure 1-1-1: The Schematic Diagram of the AXU7EV Through this diagram, you can see the interfaces and functions that the AXU7EV FPGA Development Board contains: ZU7EV core board It consists of ZU7EV +4GB DDR4 (PS) +4GB DDR4 (PL) +8GB eMMC FLASH + 512Mb QSPI FLASH, and there are 2 crystal oscillators to provide the clock, a single-ended 33.3333MHz crystal oscillator for the...
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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual 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 1 standard Display Port output display interface, used for video image display.
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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 Two-way CAN bus interface, using TI's SN65HVD232 chip, the interface uses 4Pin green terminal blocks.
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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual On-board temperature and humidity sensor chip LM75, used to detect the temperature and humidity of the surrounding environment around the FPGA development board EEPROM One EEPROM 24LC04 with I2C interface Real Time Clock (RTC) 1 built-in RTC real-time clock ...
ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual Part 2: ACU7EV Core Board Part 2.1: ACU7EV Core Board Introduction ACU7EV (core board model, the same below) FPGA core board, ZYNQ chip is based on XCZU7EV-2FFVB1156I of XILINX company Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoCs EG Family.
ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual Figure 2-1-1: ACU7EV Core Board (Front View) Part 2.2: ZYNQ Chip The FPGA core board ACU7EV uses Xilinx's Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoCs EV family chip, module XCZU7EV-2FFVB1156I. The PS system of the ZU7EV chip integrates 4 ARM Cortex™-A53 processors with a speed of up to 1.3Ghz...
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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual Figure 2-2-1: Overall Block Diagram of the ZYNQ ZU7EV Chip The main parameters of the PS system part are as follows: ARM quad-core Cortex ™ -A53 processor, speed up to 1.3GHz, each...
ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual 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 Common connection interfaces: 2 x USB2.0, 2 x SD/SDIO, 2 x UART, 2 x CAN 2.0B, 2 x I2C, 2 x SPI, 4 x 32b GPIO...
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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual of 4GB. 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...
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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual The hardware connection of DDR4 SDRAM on the PL Side is shown in Figure 2-3-2: Figure 2-3-2: DDR4 DRAM schematic diagram PS Side DDR4 DRAM pin assignment: Signal Name Pin Name Pin Number...
ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual PL_DDR4_BG0 IO_L7P_T1L_N0_QBC_AD13P_66 AK13 PL_DDR4_CAS_B IO_L8N_T1L_N3_AD5N_66 AL10 PL_DDR4_CKE IO_L15P_T2L_N4_AD11P_66 AG13 PL_DDR4_CS_B IO_L9P_T1L_N4_AD12P_66 AK12 PL_DDR4_CLK_N IO_L13N_T2L_N1_GC_QBC_66 AJ12 PL_DDR4_CLK_P IO_L13P_T2L_N0_GC_QBC_66 AH12 Part 2.4: QSPI Flash The FPGA core board ACU7EV 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.
ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual Figure 2-4-1: QSPI Flash in the schematic Configure chip pin assignments: Signal Name Pin Name Pin Number MIO0_QSPI0_SCLK PS_MIO0_500 MIO1_QSPI0_IO1 PS_MIO1_500 MIO2_QSPI0_IO2 PS_MIO2_500 MIO3_QSPI0_IO3 PS_MIO3_500 MIO4_QSPI0_IO0 PS_MIO4_500 MIO5_QSPI0_SS_B PS_MIO5_500 MIO10_QSPI1_IO2 PS_MIO10_500 MIO11_QSPI1_IO3...
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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual FLASH chip, the model is MTFC8GAKAJCN-4M, it supports the HS-MMC interface of the JEDEC e-MMC V5.0 standard, and the level supports 1.8V or 3.3V. The data width of eMMC FLASH and ZYNQ connection is 8bit. Due to the...
ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual MMC_DAT1 PS_MIO14_500 MMC_DAT2 PS_MIO15_500 MMC_DAT3 PS_MIO16_500 MMC_DAT4 PS_MIO17_500 MMC_DAT5 PS_MIO18_500 MMC_DAT6 PS_MIO19_500 MMC_DAT7 PS_MIO20_500 MMC_RSTN PS_MIO23_500 Part 2.6: Clock configuration 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.
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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual 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 PS System Clock Source The X1 crystal on the core board provides a 33.333MHz clock input for the PS part.
ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual PL System Clock Source The core board provides a differential 200MHz PL system clock source for the reference clock of the DDR4 controller. The crystal oscillator output is connected to the global clock (MRCC) of PL BANK64. This global clock can be used to drive the DDR4 controller and user logic circuits in the FPGA.
ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual Part 2.8: ACU7EV Core Board Size Dimension Figure 2-8-1: ACU7EV Core Board Size Dimension Part 2.9: Board to Board Connectors pin assignment The core board has a total of four high-speed expansion ports. It uses four 120-pin inter-board connectors (J29/J30/J31/J32) to connect to the carrier board.
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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual J29 Pin Signal Name J29 Pin Signal Name Pin Number Number +12V +12V +12V +12V +12V +12V +12V +12V +12V +12V +12V +12V B88_L2_N B88_L1_N B88_L2_P B88_L1_P B88_L5_N B88_L4_N B88_L5_P B88_L4_P B88_L8_N...
2 LED lights 2 Keys Part 3.2: PCIe Slot There is a PCIe3.0 x8 interface on the AXU7EV carrier board, and eight pairs of transceivers are connected to the PCIEx8, which can realize PCIe x 8, Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx...
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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual PCIe x 4, PCIe x 2, PCIe x 2 data communication. The transceiver signal of the PCIe interface is directly connected to the GTH transceiver of FPGA BANK223, BANK224, and the single-channel communication rate can be as high as 8G bit bandwidth.
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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual PCIE Channel 2 Data Receive Negative PCIE_RX2_N 223_RX2_N PCIE Channel 2 Data Receive Positive PCIE_RX2_P 223_RX2_P PCIE Channel 3 Data Receive Negative PCIE_RX3_N 223_RX3_N PCIE Channel 3 Data Receive Positive PCIE_RX3_P 223_RX3_P...
ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual Part 3.3: M.2 Interface The AXU7EV FPGA development board is equipped with a PCIE x1 standard M.2 interface for connecting M.2 SSD solid state drives, with a communication speed of up to 6Gbps. The M.2 interface uses the M key slot, which only supports PCI-E, not SATA.
PCIE_RSTN_MIO37 PS_MIO37 Part 3.4: DP Interface The AXU7EV FPGA development board has a standard DisplayPort output display interface for video image display. The interface supports VESA DisplayPort V1.2a output standard, up to 4K x 2K@30Fps output, supports Y-only, YCbCr444, YCbCr422, YCbCr420 and RGB video formats, each color supports 6, 8, 10, or 12 bits.
PS_MIO28 Part 3.5: USB3.0 Interface There are 4 USB3.0 ports on the AXU7EV carrier board, supporting the HOST working mode, and the data transmission speed is up to 5.0Gb/s. USB3.0 is connected through the PIPE3 interface, and USB2.0 is connected to the external USB3320C chip through the ULPI interface to realize high-speed USB3.0 and USB2.0 data communication.
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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual Figure 3-4-1: USB3.0 Interface Schematic USB Interface Pin Assignment: Signal Name Pin Name Pin Number Description USB3.0 Data Transmit Positive USB_SSTXP 505_TX1_N USB_SSTXN USB3.0 Data Transmit Negative 505_TX1_P USB3.0 Data Receive Positive...
ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual Part 3.6: HDMI Output Interface There is one HDMI Output Interface on the carrier board. The HMDI chip uses TI's SN75DP159 chip to realize the TMDS level conversion redriver and receiver equalization function, and increase the signal driving capability. The HDMI interface supports up to 4K@60Hz output.
ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual HDMI Video Output Signal Data 1 HDMI_TX0_D1N 226_TX1_N Negative HDMI Video Output Signal Data 1 HDMI_TX0_D1P 226_TX1_P Positive HDMI Video Output Signal Data 2 HDMI_TX0_D2N 226_TX2_N Negative HDMI Video Output Signal Data 2...
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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual Figure 3-7-1: HDMI Input Interface Schematic ZYNQ pin assignment: Signal Name FPGA Pin Name FPGA Description Numb HDMI Video Input Signal Data 0 HDMI_IN0_RX_0N 226_RX0_N Negative HDMI Video Input Signal Data 0...
B88_L9_P Part 3.8: Gigabit Ethernet Interface There are 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports on the AXU7EV carrier board, one is connected to the PS end, and the other is connected to the PL end. The GPHY chip uses Micrel's KSZ9031RNX Ethernet PHY chip to provide users with...
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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual CLK125_EN Enable 125Mhz clock output selection Enable LED_MODE LED light mode configuration Single LED light mode 10/100/1000 adaptive, compatible Link adaptation and full duplex MODE0~MODE3 with full-duplex, half-duplex configuration Table 3-8-1: PHY chip default configuration value...
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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual Ethernet 1 Transmit data bit0 PHY1_TXD0 PHY1_TXD0 Ethernet 1 Transmit data bit1 PHY1_TXD1 PHY1_TXD1 Ethernet 1 Transmit data bit2 PHY1_TXD2 PHY1_TXD2 Ethernet 1 Transmit data bit3 PHY1_TXD3 PHY1_TXD3 Ethernet 1 Transmit Enable Signal...
ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual Part 3.9: USB to Serial Port The AXU7EV carrier board is equipped with two Uart to USB ports, one is connected to the PS end, and one is connected to the PL end. The conversion chip uses Silicon Labs CP2102GM's USB-UAR chip, and the USB interface is a MINI USB interface.
ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual Part 3.10: SFP Interface The AXU7EV FPGA carrier board has two optical interfaces. Users can purchase SFP optical modules (1.25G, 2.5G, 10G optical modules on the market) and insert them into these two optical interfaces for optical data communication.
Detect Signal Part 3.11: SD Card Slot Interface The AXU7EV FPGA Development Board contains a Micro SD card interface to provide user access to the SD card memory, the BOOT program for the ZU7EV chip, the Linux operating system kernel, the file system and other user data files.
SD_CMD Part 3.12: MIPI Camera Interface The AXU7EV 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 BANK65.
Part 3.13: FMC Interface The AXU7EV FPGA Carrier board has a standard FMC LPC 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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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual Figure 3-13-1: FMC Schematic FMC connector pin assignment Signal Name ZYNQ Pin Name ZYNQ Pin Description Number FMC Transceiver Data Transmission 0 FMC_DP0_C2M_N 225_TX1_N Negative FMC Transceiver Data Transmission 0 FMC_DP0_C2M_P 225_TX1_P...
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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual FMC Reference 2 Data N FMC_LA02_N B28_L16_N FMC Reference 2 Data P FMC_LA02_P B28_L16_P FMC Reference 3 Data N FMC_LA03_N B28_L12_N FMC Reference 3 Data P FMC_LA03_P B28_L12_P FMC Reference 4 Data N...
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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual FMC Reference 19 Data N FMC_LA19_N B64_L2_N AP13 FMC Reference 19 Data P FMC_LA19_P B64_L2_P AN13 FMC Reference 20 Data N FMC_LA20_N B64_L4_N AN14 FMC Reference 20 Data P FMC_LA20_P B64_L4_P AM14...
ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual Part 3.14: CAN Communication Interface There are 2 CAN communication interfaces on the AXU7EV carrier board, which are connected to the MIO interface of the BANK501 on the PS system side. The CAN transceiver chip selected TI's SN65HVD232C chip for user CAN communication services.
PL_485_DE2 B88_L10_P Part 3.16: JTAG Debug Port The JTAG interface is reserved on the AXU7EV carrier board for downloading ZYNQ UltraScale+ programs or firmware programs to FLASH. In order to not damage the ZYNQ UltraScale+ chip by plugging and unplugging under power, we aded a protection diode to the JTAG signal to ensure that the Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/alinx...
ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual signal voltage is within the range accepted by the FPGA and avoid damage to the ZYNQ UltraScale+ chip. Figure 3-14-1: JTAG Interface Schematic Part 3.17: Real-time Clock The ZU7EV chip has the function of an RTC real-time clock, with timing functions such as year, month, day, hour, minute, and second, and week.
PS terminal through the I2C bus. A high-precision, low-power, digital temperature sensor chip is installed on the AXU7EV FPGA development board, and the model is LM75 from ON Semiconductor. The temperature accuracy of the LM75 chip is 0.5 degrees.
PS_MIO35 Part 3.19: User LEDs There are 4 LEDs on the AXU7EV Carrier board. including 1 power indicator light, 1 DONE indicator, 1 PS control indicator, and 1 PL control indicator. The user can control the on and off through the program. The...
ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual Part 3.20: Keys There are 1 reset KEY RESET and 2 user KEYs on the AXU7EV carrier board. The reset signal is connected to the reset chip input of the core board ACU7EV, and the user can use this reset KEY to reset the ZYNQ system.
ON,OFF, OFF, ON Part 3.22: Power Supply The power input voltage of the AXU7EV development board is DC12V. In the carrier board, the DC12V is converted into +5V, +3.3V, +1.8V, through one-way DC/DC power chip TPS54620 and two-way DC/DC power chip MP2323/MP1482.
ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU7EV User Manual The functions of each power distribution are shown in the following table: Power Function +5.0V USB power supply +1.8V Ethernet, USB2.0 +3.3V Ethernet, USB2.0, M.2, SD, DP, CAN, RS485 Part 3.23: ALINX Customized Fan Because ZU7EV 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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