ZYNQ FPGA Core Board AC7Z100B User Manual Version Record Version Date Release By Description Rev 1.0 2020-06-28 Rachel Zhou First Release www.alinx.com 2 / 32...
Part 6: Clock Configuration ................17 Part 7: LED Light ..................20 Part 8: Reset circuit ..................21 Part 9: Power Supply ................. 22 Part 10: AC7Z100B Core Board Size Dimension ........24 Part 11: Board to Board Connectors Pin Assignment ....... 24 www.alinx.com 3 / 32...
ZYNQ FPGA Core Board AC7Z100B User Manual Part 1: AC7Z100B Core Board Introduction AC7Z100B (core board model, the same below) FPGA core board, ZYNQ chip is based on XC7Z100-2FFG900 of XILINX company ZYNQ7000 series. The ZYNQ chip's PS system integrates two ARM CortexTM-A9 processors, AMBA®...
Figure 1-1: AC7Z100B Core Board (Front View) Figure 1-2: AC7Z100B Core Board (Rear View) Part 2: ZYNQ Chip The FPGA core board AC7Z100B uses Xilinx's Zynq7000 series chip, module XC7Z100-2FFG900. The chip's PS system integrates two ARM Cortex™-A9 processors, AMBA® interconnects, internal memory, external memory interfaces and peripherals.
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ZYNQ FPGA Core Board AC7Z100B User Manual interface, Ethernet interface, SD/SDIO interface, I2C bus interface, CAN bus interface, UART interface, GPIO etc. The PS can operate independently and start up at power on or reset. Figure 2-1 detailed the Overall Block Diagram of the ZYNQ7000 Chip.
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ZYNQ FPGA Core Board AC7Z100B User Manual Two SD card, SDIO, MMC compatible controllers 2 SPIs, 2 UARTs, 2 I2C interfaces 54 multi-function IOs that can be configured as normal IO or peripheral control interfaces High bandwidth connection within PS and PS to PL The main parameters of the PL logic part are as follows: ...
ZYNQ FPGA Core Board AC7Z100B User Manual Figure 2-3: The XC7Z100 chip used on the Core Board Part 3: DDR3 DRAM The FPGA core board AC7Z100B is equipped with four Micron 512MB DDR3 chips, model MT41J256M16HA-125 (compatible with MT41K256M16HA-125), in which Two DDR3s are mounted on the PS and PL sides respectively.
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ZYNQ FPGA Core Board AC7Z100B User Manual U4,U5,U7,U8 MT41J256M16HA-125 256M x 16bit Micron Table 3-1: DDR3 SDRAM Configuration The hardware design of DDR3 requires strict consideration of signal integrity. We have fully considered the matching resistor/terminal resistance, trace impedance control, and trace length control in circuit design and PCB design to ensure high-speed and stable operation of DDR3.
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ZYNQ FPGA Core Board AC7Z100B User Manual Figure 3-2: The Schematic Part of DDR3 DRAM on the PL side PS side DDR3 DRAM pin assignment: Signal Name ZYNQ Pin Name ZYNQ Pin Number PS_DDR3_DQS0_P PS_DDR_DQS_P0_502 PS_DDR3_DQS0_N PS_DDR_DQS_N0_502 PS_DDR3_DQS1_P PS_DDR_DQS_P1_502 PS_DDR3_DQS1_N...
IO_L24P_T3_34 Part 4: QSPI Flash The FPGA core board AC7Z100B is equipped with two 256MBit Quad-SPI FLASH chips to form an 8-bit bandwidth data bus, the flash model is W25Q256FVEI, which uses the 3.3V CMOS voltage standard. Due to the non-volatile nature of QSPI FLASH, it can be used as a boot device for the system to store the boot image of the system.
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ZYNQ FPGA Core Board AC7Z100B User Manual section of the ZYNQ chip. In the system design, the GPIO port functions of these PS ports need to be configured as the QSPI FLASH interface. Figure 4-1 shows the QSPI Flash in the schematic.
ZYNQ FPGA Core Board AC7Z100B User Manual Part 5: eMMC Flash The FPGA core board AC7Z100B is equipped with a large-capacity 8GB eMMC FLASH chip, model THGBMFG6C1LBAIL, which supports the JEDEC e-MMC V5.0 standard HS-MMC interface with level support of 1.8V or 3.3V.
ZYNQ FPGA Core Board AC7Z100B User Manual Pin Assignment of eMMC Flash Signal Name ZYNQ Pin Name ZYNQ Pin Number MMC_CCLK PS_MIO48_501 MMC_CMD PS_MIO47_501 MMC_D0 PS_MIO46_501 MMC_D1 PS_MIO49_501 MMC_D2 PS_MIO50_501 MMC_D3 PS_MIO51_501 Part 6: Clock Configuration The core system provides a reference clock for the PS system, the PL logic section, and the GTX transceiver, allowing the PS system and PL logic to work independently.
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The ZYNQ chip provides a 33.333MHz clock input to the PS section via the X4 crystal on the FPGA core board AC7Z100B. The input of the clock is connected to the pin of the PS_CLK_500 of the BANK500 of the ZYNQ chip.
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SYS_CLK_P SYS_CLK_N GTX reference clock The FPGA core board AC7Z100B provides a 125Mhz reference clock for the GTX transceiver. The reference clock is connected to the reference clock input REFCLK1P/REFCLK1N of the BANK111. The schematic diagram of the clock source is shown in Figure 6-4.
BANK111_CLK1_N Part 7: LED Light There are 2 red LED lights on the AC7Z100B FPGA core board, one of which is the power indicator light (PWR), one is the configuration LED light (DONE). When the core board is powered, the power indicator will illuminate;...
Figure 7-1: AC7Z100B FPGA Core board LED light Hardware Connection Part 8: Reset circuit There is a reset circuit on the AC7Z100B core board. The reset input signal is connected to the reset button on the carrier board. The reset output is connected to the PS reset pin of the ZYNQ chip.
PS_POR_B_500 ZYNQ system reset signal Part 9: Power Supply The AC7Z100B FPGA core board is powered by DC5V and is powered by a connection carrier board. The power supply design diagram on the FPGA board is shown in Figure 9-1 Figure 9-1:Power interface section in the schematic...
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ZYNQ FPGA Core Board AC7Z100B User Manual by DCDC chip ETA8156. The VTT and VREF voltages of the DDR3 of the PS section and the PL section are generated by U7, U10. In addition, the IO power supply BANK10 BANK11...
ZYNQ FPGA Core Board AC7Z100B User Manual Part 10: AC7Z100B Core Board Size Dimension Figure 10-1: AC7Z100B Core Board Size Dimension Part Board Board Connectors Assignment The core board has a total of four high-speed expansion ports. It uses four 120-pin inter-board connectors (J29~J32) to connect to the carrier board.
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ZYNQ FPGA Core Board AC7Z100B User Manual ZYNQ Pin ZYNQ Pin J29 Pin Signal Name J29 Pin Signal Name Number Number B11_L4_N AJ24 B11_L1_N AK25 B11_L4_P AJ23 B11_L1_P AJ25 B11_L3_P AJ21 B11_L8_N AG25 B11_L3_N AK21 B11_L8_P AG24 B11_L2_N AK23 B11_L12_N...
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