AXU15EGB User Manual Table of Contents Version Record .....................2 Part 1: FPGA Development Board Introduction .......... 7 Part 2: ACU15EG Core Board ..............12 Part 2.1: ACU15EG Core Board Introduction ........12 Part 2.2: ZYNQ Chip ................13 Part 2.3: DDR4 DRAM ................15 Part 2.4: QSPI Flash ................22...
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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 ...........63 Part 3.20: Power Supply ..............64 Part 3.21: ALINX Customized Fan ............. 65 Part 3.22: Carrier Board Size Dimension ...........66 4 / 66 www.alinx.com...
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AXU15EGB 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+ EG chip ZU15EG solution, uses Processing System(PS)+Programmable Logic(PL) technology to integrate dual-core ARM ARM Cortex-A53 and FPGA programmable logic on a single chip.
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AXU15EGB User Manual Part 1: FPGA Development Board Introduction The entire structure of the AXU15EGB 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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AXU15EGB User Manual Figure 1-1-1: The Schematic Diagram of the AXU15EGB Through this diagram, you can see the interfaces and functions that the AXU15EGB FPGA Development Board contains: ZU15EG core board It consists of ZU15EG +4GB DDR4 (PS) +2GB 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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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 9 / 66...
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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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AXU15EGB 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. 11 / 66 www.alinx.com...
AXU15EGB User Manual Part 2: ACU15EG Core Board Part 2.1: ACU15EG Core Board Introduction ACU15EG (core board model, the same below) FPGA core board, ZYNQ chip is based on XCZU15EG-2FFVB1156I of XILINX company Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoCs EG Family. This core board uses 6 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.
AXU15EGB User Manual Figure 2-1-1: ACU15EG Core Board (Front View) Part 2.2: ZYNQ Chip The FPGA core board ACU15EG uses Xilinx's Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoCs EG family chip, module XCZU15EG-2FFVB1156I. The PS system of the ZU15EG chip integrates 4 ARM Cortex™-A53 processors with a speed of up to 1.3Ghz and supports Level 2 Cache;...
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AXU15EGB User Manual Figure 2-2-1: Overall Block Diagram of the ZYNQ ZU15EG Chip The main parameters of the PS system part are as follows: ARM quad-core Cortex ™ -A53 processor, speed up to 1.3GHz, each CPU 32KB level 1 instruction and data cache, 1MB level 2 cache, shared by 2 CPUs ...
AXU15EGB User Manual 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 Power management: Support the four-part division of power supply Full/Low/PL/Battery ...
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AXU15EGB User Manual highest operating speed of the DDR4 SDRAM on the PL side can reach 1200MHz (data rate 2400Mbps), and two piece of DDR4 is connected to the BANK64,65 interface of the FPGA. The specific configuration of DDR4 SDRAM...
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AXU15EGB User Manual Figure 2-3-2: DDR4 DRAM schematic diagram PS Side DDR4 DRAM pin assignment: Signal Name Pin Name Pin Number PS_DDR4_DQS0_N PS_DDR_DQS_N0_504 AN19 PS_DDR4_DQS0_P PS_DDR_DQS_P0_504 AN18 PS_DDR4_DQS1_N PS_DDR_DQS_N1_504 AN22 PS_DDR4_DQS1_P PS_DDR_DQS_P1_504 AN21 PS_DDR4_DQS2_N PS_DDR_DQS_N2_504 AJ19 PS_DDR4_DQS2_P PS_DDR_DQS_P2_504 AH19 PS_DDR4_DQS3_N...
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AXU15EGB User Manual 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. These images mainly include FPGA bit files, ARM application code, and other user data files. The specific models and related parameters of QSPI FLASH are shown in Table 2-4-1.
AXU15EGB User Manual Figure 2-5-1: eMMC Flash in the schematic Configuration Chip pin assignment: Signal Name Pin Name Pin Number MMC_CCLK PS_MIO22_500 AD20 MMC_CMD PS_MIO21_500 AF18 MMC_DAT0 PS_MIO13_500 AK17 MMC_DAT1 PS_MIO14_500 AL16 MMC_DAT2 PS_MIO15_500 AN16 MMC_DAT3 PS_MIO16_500 AM16 MMC_DAT4 PS_MIO17_500...
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AXU15EGB User Manual Figure 2-6-1: Core Board Clock Source PS System RTC Real Time Clock The passive crystal Y1 on the core board provides a 32.768KHz real-time clock source for the PS system. The crystal is connected to the PS_PADI_503 and PS_PADO_503 pins of BANK503 of the ZYNQ chip.
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AXU15EGB User Manual 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. The schematic diagram is shown in Figure 2-6-3:...
AXU15EGB User Manual Figure 2-6-4: PL system clock source Clock pin assignment: Signal Name PL_CLK0_P PL_CLK0_N Part 2.7: Power Supply The power supply voltage of the ACU15EG core board is DC12V, which is supplied by connecting the carrier board. The core board uses 2 MYMGM1R824 power chips in parallel to achieve a 50A current to provide the core power of the XCZU15EG with 0.85V.
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AXU15EGB User Manual Part 2.8: ACU15EG Core Board Size Dimension Figure 2-8-1: ACU15EG Core Board Size Dimension Part 2.10: 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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AXU15EGB User Manual J29 Pin Signal Name J29 Pin Signal Name Pin Number Number B66_L3_P AA11 B67_L1_P B66_L3_N AA10 B67_L1_N B66_L2_P AB11 B66_L7_P B66_L2_N AB10 B66_L7_N B66_L5_N AA12 B66_L8_P B66_L5_P B66_L8_N B67_L2_N B66_L1_N AC11 B67_L2_P B66_L1_P AC12 B66_L19_P B66_L11_N B66_L19_N...
2 Keys Part 3.2: M.2 Interface The AXU15EGB 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.
505_PCIE_REFCLK_N 505_CLK0_N AA28 PCIE Reference Clock Negative PCIE_RSTn_MIO37 PS_MIO37 PCIE Reset Signal Part 3.3: DP Interface The AXU15EGB FPGA development board has a standard DisplayPort output display interface for video image display. The interface supports VESA 40 / 66 www.alinx.com...
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AXU15EGB User Manual 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. The DisplayPort data transmission channel is directly driven and output by the BANK505 PS MGT of ZU15EG, and the LANE2 and LANE3 TX signals of MGT are connected to the DP connector in a differential signal mode.
DP Insertion Signal Detection Part 3.4: USB3.0 Interface There are 4 USB3.0 ports on the AXU15EGB 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.
USB2.0 Reset Signal Part 3.5: Gigabit Ethernet Interface There are 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports on the AXU15EGB carrier board, one is connected to the PS end, and the other is connected to the PL end. The GPHY chip uses JLSemi JL2121-N040IRNX Ethernet PHY chip to provide users with network communication services.The Ethernet PHY chip on the PS side is...
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AXU15EGB User Manual When the JL2121-N040IRNX 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. Configuration Pin...
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AXU15EGB User Manual Figure 3-5-1: ZYNQ PS system and GPHY connection diagram PS Gigabit Ethernet pin assignment is as follows Signal Name Pin Name Pin Number Description PHY1_TXCK PS_MIO64 Ethernet 1 RGMII Transmit Clock PHY1_TXD0 PS_MIO65 Ethernet 1 Transmit data bit0...
Ethernet 2 Reset Signal Part 3.6: USB to Serial Port The AXU15EGB 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.
PL Uart Data Input Part 3.7: SD Card Slot Interface The AXU15EGB FPGA Development Board contains a Micro SD card interface to provide user access to the SD card memory, the BOOT program for the ZU15EG chip, the Linux operating system kernel, the file system and other user data files.
SD card insertion signal Part 3.8: SFP Interface The AXU15EGB 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.
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AXU15EGB User Manual Figure 3-8-1: SFP Schematic SFP ZYNQ pin assignment: Signal Name ZYNQ Pin Name ZYNQ Pin Description Number SFP1_TX_N 228_TX2_N Optical Module 1 Data Transmit Negative SFP1_TX_P 228_TX2_P Optical Module 1 Data Transmit Positive SFP1_RX_N 228_RX2_N Optical Module 1 Data Receive Negative...
AXU15EGB User Manual Part 3.9: CAN Communication Interface There are 2 CAN communication interfaces on the AXU15EGB 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.
Channel 485 Transmit Enable Part 3.11: MIPI Camera Interface The AXU15EGB 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,...
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AXU15EGB User Manual connected to the IO of BANK43, level standard It is 3.3V. The circuit schematic of the MIPI interface part is shown in Figure 3-14-1 below: Figure 3-14-1: MIPI camera interface design schematic MIPI interface pin assignment Signal Name...
Part 3.12: FMC Interface The AXU15EGB 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.
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...
+3.3V +3.3V Part 3.14: JTAG Debug Port The JTAG interface is reserved on the AXU15EGB expansion board for downloading ZYNQ UltraScale+ programs or firmware programs to FLASH. In order to not damage the ZYNQ UltraScale+ chip by plugging and unplugging...
PS terminal through the I2C bus. A high-precision, low-power, digital temperature sensor chip is installed on the AXU15EGB 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 3.17: User LEDs There are 4 LEDs on the AXU15EGB Carrier board. including 1 two-color 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...
PL User LED2 Light Part 3.18: Keys There are 1 reset KEY RESET and 2 user buttons on the AXU15EGB carrier board. The reset signal is connected to the reset chip input of the core board ACU4EV, and the user can use this reset KEY to reset the ZYNQ system.
Part 3.19: DIP Switch Configuration There is a 4-digit DIP switch SW1 on the FPGA development board to configure the startup mode of the ZYNQ system. The AXU15EGB system development platform supports 4 startup modes. The 4 startup modes are JTAG debug mode, QSPI FLASH, EMMC and SD2.0 card startup mode.
ON,OFF, OFF, ON Part 3.20: Power Supply The power input voltage of the AXU15EGB development board is DC12V. In the carrier board, the 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.
Ethernet, USB2.0, SD, DP, CAN, RS485 +1.2V Ethernet Part 3.21: ALINX Customized Fan Because ZU15EG 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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