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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Core Board ACU3EG User Manual Table of Contents Version Record .....................2 Part 1: ACU3EG core board Introduction ............ 4 Part 2: ZYNQ Chip ..................5 Part 3: DDR4 DRAM ..................7 Part 4: QSPI Flash ..................14 Part 5: eMMC Flash ...................
ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Core Board ACU3EG User Manual Part 1: ACU3EG core board Introduction ACU3EG (core board model, the same below) FPGA core board, ZYNQ chip is based on XCZU3EG-1SFVC784I of XILINX company Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoCs EG series. This core board uses 5 Micron DDR4 chips MT40A512M16GE, of which 4 DDR4 chips are mounted on the PS side to form a 64-bit data bus bandwidth and 4GB capacity.
Figure 1-1: ACU3EG Core Board (Front View) Part 2: ZYNQ Chip The FPGA core board ACU3Eg uses Xilinx's Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoCs EG series chip, module XCZU3EG-1SFVC784I. The PS system of the ZU3EG chip integrates 4 ARM Cortex™-A53 processors with a speed of up to 1.2Ghz and supports Level 2 Cache;...
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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Core Board ACU3EG User Manual Figure 2-1: Overall Block Diagram of the ZYNQ ZU3EG Chip The main parameters of the PS system part are as follows: ARM quad-core Cortex ™ -A53 processor, speed up to 1.2GHz, each...
SFVC784 Part 3: DDR4 DRAM The ACU3EG core board is equipped with 5 Micron (Micron) 1GB DDR4 chips, model MT40A512M16LY-062E, of which 4 DDR4 chips are mounted on the PS side to form a 64-bit data bus bandwidth and 4GB capacity. One DDR4 chip is mounted on the PL end, which is a 16-bit data bus width and a capacity of 1GB.
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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Core Board ACU3EG User Manual can reach 1200MHz (data rate 2400Mbps), and the 4 DDR4 storage systems are directly connected to the memory interface of the PS BANK504. The highest operating speed of the DDR4 SDRAM on the PL side can reach 1066MHz (data rate 2133Mbps), and a piece of DDR4 is connected to the BANK64 interface of the FPGA.
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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Core Board ACU3EG User Manual The hardware connection of DDR4 SDRAM on the Pl Side is shown in Figure 3-2: Figure 3-2: DDR3 DRAM schematic diagram PS Side DDR4 DRAM pin assignment: Signal Name Pin Name...
PL_DDR4_OTD IO_L19N_T3L_N1_DBC_AD9N_64 Part 4: QSPI Flash The FPGA core board ACU3EG is equipped with one 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 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.
PS_MIO5_500 AD16 Part 5: eMMC Flash The ACU3EG core board is equipped with a large-capacity 8GB eMMC 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.
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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Core Board ACU3EG User Manual The eMMC FLASH is connected to the GPIO port of the BANK500 of the 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 5-1 shows the part of eMMC Flash in the schematic diagram.
ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Core Board ACU3EG User Manual Part 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. The schematic diagram of the clock circuit design is shown in...
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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Core Board ACU3EG User Manual 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. The clock input is connected to the PS_REF_CLK_503 pin of BANK503 of the ZYNQ chip.
Part 7: LED There is a red power indicator (PWR) and a configuration LED (DONE) on the ACU3EG core board. When the core board is powered on, the power indicator will light up; after the FPGA configuration program, the configuration LED light will light up.
ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Core Board ACU3EG User Manual Part 8: Power Supply The power supply voltage of the ACU3EG core board is DC12V, which is supplied by connecting the carrier board. The core board uses a PMIC chip TPS6508641 to generate all the power required by the XCZU3EG chip. For the TPS6508641 power supply design, please refer to the power supply chip manual.
ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Core Board ACU3EG User Manual In addition, the VCCIO power supply of BANK65 and BANK66 of XCZU3EG chip is provided by the carrier board, which is convenient for users to modify, but the maximum power supply cannot exceed 1.8V.
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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Core Board ACU3EG User Manual The connectors used is Panasonic AXK5A2137YG, and the corresponding connector model in the carrier board is Panasonic AXK6A2337YG. Among them, J29 is connected to the IO of BANK65 and BANK66, J30 is connectted to...
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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Core Board ACU3EG User Manual B66_L13_N B66_L10_P B66_L13_P B66_L10_N B66_L8_N B66_L9_P B66_L8_P B66_L9_N Pin assignment of board to board connector J30 J30 Pin Signal Name J30 Pin Signal Name Number Number B66_L14_P FPGA_TDI B66_L14_N FPGA_TCK B66_L22_P...
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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Core Board ACU3EG User Manual Pin assignment of board to board connector J31 J31 Pin Signal Name J31 Pin Signal Name Pin Number Number B24_L10_P B24_L7_P AA13 B24_L10_N B24_L7_N AB13 B24_L6_P AC14 B44_L6_P AC12 B24_L6_N AC13...
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