ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU4EV-P User Manual Version Record Version Date Release By Description Rev 1.0 2021-04-13 Rachel Zhou First Release www.alinx.com 2 / 66...
Part 3.8: HDMI Output Interface ............46 Part 3.9: HDMI Input Interface ............48 Part 3.10: SFP Interface ..............50 Part 3.11: PCIe Slot ................52 Part 3.12: CAN Communication Interface ........53 Part 3.13: 485 Communication Interface .......... 54 www.alinx.com 3 / 66...
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Part 3.19: User LEDs ............... 61 Part 3.20: Keys ................. 62 Part 3.21: DIP Switch Configuration ..........63 Part 3.22: Power Supply ..............64 Part 3.23: ALINX Customized Fan ........... 65 Part 3.24: Carrier Board Size Dimension ......... 66 www.alinx.com 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. www.alinx.com 5 / 66...
HDMI Output Interface, 1 HDMI Input Interface, 1 FMC Interface, 2-Channel CAN bus interfaces, 2-Channel RS485 bus interfaces, 1 MIPI Camera Interface and some keys and LEDs. The following figure shows the structure of the entire development system: www.alinx.com 6 / 66...
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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 www.alinx.com 7 / 66...
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12.5Gb/s. SD Card Slot Interface 1 Micro SD card holder, used to store operating system image and file system. HDMI Output Interface www.alinx.com 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 Two-way CAN bus interface, using TI's SN65HVD232 chip, the interface uses 4Pin green terminal blocks.
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There are 1 power indicator and 1 DONE Configuration indicator on the core board, 1 power indicator on the carrier board. There are 1 power indicator and 2 user indicators on the carrier board. KEYs 3 KEYs, include 1 Rest KEY and 2 User KEYs. www.alinx.com 10 / 66...
PL side (HP I/O: 96, HD I/O: 84). The wiring between the XCZU4EV 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. www.alinx.com 11 / 66...
PCIE Gen2, USB3.0, SATA 3.1, DisplayPort; it also supports USB2.0 , Gigabit 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 ZU4EV Chip. www.alinx.com 12 / 66...
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Image Video Processor Mali-400 MP2, speed up to 677MHz, 64KB level 2 cache 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, www.alinx.com 13 / 66...
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 www.alinx.com 14 / 66...
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PCB design to ensure high-speed and stable operation of DDR4. 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 www.alinx.com 15 / 66...
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. Position Model Capacity Factory MT25QU256ABA1EW9 256Mbit Winbond Table 2-4-1: QSPI FLASH Specification www.alinx.com 21 / 66...
FLASH, it can be used as a large-capacity storage device in the ZYNQ system, such as storing ARM applications, system files and other user data files The specific models and www.alinx.com 22 / 66...
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Figure 2-5-1: QSPI Flash in the schematic Configuration Chip pin assignment: Signal Name Pin Name Pin Number MMC_DAT0 PS_MIO13_500 AH18 MMC_DAT1 PS_MIO14_500 AG18 MMC_DAT2 PS_MIO15_500 AE18 MMC_DAT3 PS_MIO16_500 AF18 MMC_DAT4 PS_MIO17_500 AC18 MMC_DAT5 PS_MIO18_500 AC19 MMC_DAT6 PS_MIO19_500 AE19 www.alinx.com 23 / 66...
The passive crystal Y2 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. The schematic diagram is shown in Figure 2-6-2: www.alinx.com 24 / 66...
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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: Figure 2-6-3: Active Crystal in PS part Clock pin assignment: Signal Name PS_CLK www.alinx.com 25 / 66...
ACU4EV 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. The LED Schematic in the Core Board is shown in Figure 2-7-1: www.alinx.com 26 / 66...
The core board uses a PMIC chip TPS6508641 to generate all the power required by the XCZU4EV chip. For the TPS6508641 power supply design, please refer to the power supply chip manual. The design block diagram is as follows: www.alinx.com 27 / 66...
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ZYNQ Ultrascale + FPGA Board AXU4EV-P User Manual In addition, the VCCIO power supply of BANK65 and BANK66 of XCZU4EV chip is provided by the carrier board, which is convenient for users to modify, but the maximum power supply cannot exceed 1.8V. www.alinx.com 28 / 66...
MIO, VCCO_65, VCCO_66 and +12V power supply of PS. Among them, the IO level standard of BANK43~46 is 3.3V, and the level standard of BANK65 and BANK66 is determined by the VCCO_65 and VCCO_66 power supply of the carrier board, but cannot exceed +1.8V; www.alinx.com 29 / 66...
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. When users choose SSD solid state drives, they www.alinx.com 38 / 66...
PCIE Reference Clock Positive 505_PCIE_REFCLK_N 505_CLK0_N PCIE Reference Clock Negative PCIE_RSTn_MIO37 PS_MIO37_501 PCIE Reset Signal Part 3.3: DP Interface The AXU4EV-P development board has a standard DisplayPort output display interface for video image display. The interface supports VESA www.alinx.com 39 / 66...
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Low bits of DP Data GT0_DP_TX_P 505_TX3_P 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 www.alinx.com 40 / 66...
MDIO bus for PHY register management. 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. www.alinx.com 42 / 66...
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25Mhz. Data is sampled on the rising edge and falling samples of the clock. RGMII TX GPHY BANK (KSZ9031RNX) RGMII RX ZYNQ Ultra Scale+ RGMII TX GPHY BANK (KSZ9031RNX) RGMII RX Figure 3-5-1: ZYNQ PS system and GPHY connection diagram www.alinx.com 43 / 66...
Ethernet 2 MDIO Clock Management PHY2_MDIO B66_L22_P Ethernet 2 MDIO Management Data PHY2_RESET B66_L14_N Ethernet 2 Reset Signal Part 3.6: USB to Serial Port The AXU4EV-P carrier board is equipped with two Uart to USB ports, one www.alinx.com 44 / 66...
PL Uart Data Output PL_UART_RX B43_L9_N AH10 PL Uart Data Input Part 3.7: SD Card Slot Interface The AXU4EV-P FPGA Development Board contains a Micro SD card interface to provide user access to the SD card memory, the BOOT www.alinx.com 45 / 66...
SD Data3 SD_CD PS_MIO45 SD card insertion signal Part 3.8: HDMI Output Interface The HDMI output interface uses the ADV7511 HDMI (DVI) encoding chip from ANALOG DEVICE, which supports up to 1080P@60Hz output and 3D output. www.alinx.com 46 / 66...
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HDMI_DE B35_L9_P HDMI Video Signal Enable HDMI_D0 B35_L9_N HDMI Video Signal Data0 HDMI_D1 B35_L22_N HDMI Video Signal Data1 HDMI_D2 B35_L22_P HDMI Video Signal Data2 HDMI_D3 B35_L20_N HDMI Video Signal Data3 HDMI_D4 B35_L20_P HDMI Video Signal Data4 www.alinx.com 47 / 66...
The IIC configuration interface of ADV7611 is also connected to the IO of ZU4EV PL. ZYNQ initializes and controls ADV7611 through I2C bus programming. The hardware schematic of the HDMI input interface is shown in Figure 3-9-1. www.alinx.com 48 / 66...
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HDMI Input Video Signal Data3 HDMI_IN_D3 B43_L6_P AC12 HDMI Input Video Signal Data4 HDMI_IN_D4 B44_L6_P AC14 HDMI Input Video Signal Data5 HDMI_IN_D5 B44_L6_N AC13 HDMI Input Video Signal Data6 HDMI_IN_D6 B43_L6_N AD12 HDMI Input Video Signal Data7 www.alinx.com 49 / 66...
GNK transceiver of ZYNQ BANK224, and the data rate of each TX transmission and RX reception is up to 12.5Gb/s. The reference clock of the GTH transceiver is provided by the 125M differential clock of the core board. The SFP Schematic detailed is shown in Figure 3-10-1: www.alinx.com 50 / 66...
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224_RX1_P Optical Module 2 Data Receive Positive Optical Module Light Emission Prohibited, High SFP_TX_DIS B45_L12_P Level (Positive) Enable Optical Module 1 Receive LOSS SFP1_LOSS B45_L9_N Detect Signal Optical Module 2 Receive LOSS SFP2_LOSS B45_L9_P Detect Signal www.alinx.com 51 / 66...
Figure 3-12-1: Connection diagram of CAN transceiver chip on PS side The CAN communication pin assignments are as follows: Signal Name ZYNQ Pin Name ZYNQ Pin Number Description PS_CAN1_TX PS_MIO32 CAN1 Transmitter PS_CAN1_RX PS_MIO33 CAN1 Receiver www.alinx.com 53 / 66...
Part 3.14: MIPI Camera Interface The AXU4EV-P 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, the level standard is 1.2V...
Part 3.15: FMC Interface The AXU4EV-P 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.
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Data N FMC_LA10_P B65_L6_P FMC Reference 10 Data P FMC_LA10_N B65_L6_N FMC Reference 10 Data N FMC_LA11_P B65_L5_P FMC Reference 11 Data P FMC_LA11_N B65_L5_N FMC Reference 11 Data N FMC_LA12_P B65_L9_P FMC Reference 12 Data P www.alinx.com 57 / 66...
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Data N FMC_LA28_P B66_L10_P FMC Reference 28 Data P FMC_LA28_N B66_L10_N FMC Reference 28 Data N FMC_LA29_P B66_L7_P FMC Reference 29 Data P FMC_LA29_N B66_L7_N FMC Reference 29 Data N FMC_LA30_P B66_L13_P FMC Reference 30 Data P www.alinx.com 58 / 66...
JTAG signal to ensure that the signal voltage is within the range accepted by the FPGA and avoid damage to the ZYNQ UltraScale+ chip. Figure 3-16-1: JTAG Interface Schematic www.alinx.com 59 / 66...
EEPROM is 24LC04, and the capacity is: 4Kbit (2 * 256 * 8bit), which is connected to the PS terminal through the I2C bus. A high-precision, low-power, digital temperature sensor chip is installed on the AXU4EV-P FPGA development board, and the model is LM75 from ON www.alinx.com 60 / 66...
When the IO voltage of the connected user LED light is low, the user LED light is off, and when the connected IO voltage is high, the user LED will be lit. The schematic diagram of the user's LED light hardware connection is shown in Figure 3-19-1: www.alinx.com 61 / 66...
One user KEY is connected to the MIO of the PS, and one is connected to the IO of the PL. The reset KEY and the user KEYs are both low-level active. The connection diagram of the user key is shown in Figure 3-20-1: www.alinx.com 62 / 66...
The user can select different startup modes through the DIP switch SW1 on the expansion board. The SW1 startup mode configuration is shown in the following table 3-21-1. Dial Position (1, 2, 3, 4) MODE[3:0] Start mode 0000 PS JTAG ON,ON,ON,ON www.alinx.com 63 / 66...
Figure 3-22-1: +12V 2A +5.0V/6A TPS54620 12V电源 +1.2V +3.3V/2A MP1482 +1.8V/2A MP1482 Figure 3-22-1: Carrier Board Power Schematic The functions of each power distribution are shown in the following table: www.alinx.com 64 / 66...
Ethernet, USB2.0, SD, DP, CAN, RS485 +1.2V BANK65 of Core Board Part 3.23: ALINX Customized Fan Because AXU4EV-P 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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