NAT-AMC-ZYNQUP-ECO

The NAT-AMC-ZYNQUP-ECO is a FMC carrier board for a wide field of applications. Depending on the number of installed mezzanines, the board comes in single mid-size (one FMC) or single full-size (two FMCs) AMC form factor.

Heart of the NAT-AMC-ZYNQUP-ECO is a Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ (for better readability: ZynqUP) MPSoC.

MPSoC: FPGA and CPU Functionality combined in one System-on-a-Chip

The so-called MPSoC combines the best of two worlds: an FPGA portion for time-critical, massive parallel processing and ARM CPU cores for higher-level software tasks.

The PS (Processing System – CPU part) is accompanied by 4GB DDR4 RAM, whereas the PL (Programmable Logic – FPGA part) comes with 2GB DDR4 RAM. Flexible I/Os including high speed SerDes interconnects make it ready for operation in many domains. Additionally, a versatile on-board PLL (programmable by the MPSoC) provides a basis for timing and clock synchronization.

As the board is available in various FPGA configurations, please check the order codes below for details.

Broad Field of Application and flexible Adaption to Customer’s Needs

The board’s functionality is determined mainly by the installed FMC card. So, it offers many options to meet the customer’s specific demands.

One important field of application is NATvision. In combination with the NAT-FMC-PoE and other FMC cards, the NAT-AMC-ZYNQUP-ECO targets on applications like aggregation and processing of video streams.

The FMC carrier board supports Low Pin Count connectors (LPC) as defined by VITA 57.1. This allows the use of standard-off-the-shelf FMCs i.e., for industrial busses, industrial serial I/O etc.

Moreover, the NAT-AMC-ZYNQUP-ECO features an MicroSD-Card slot. So it allows an easy change of software configurations during development or maintenance, or extra security features.

As “smaller brother” of the NAT-AMC-ZYNQUP-ADV, the NAT-AMC-ZYNQUP-ECO FMC carrier offers the same benefits, but comes with a reduced amount of resources and at a significantly lower pricing.

• AMC form factor, single mid- or full-size

Processing Resources

• SoC and Memory
  • Xilinx ZynqUP MPSoC
  • FPGA
  • 2x/4x ARM A53 (depending on FPGA type)
  • 2x R5 CPU
  • 4GB DDR4 RAM (PS)
  • 2GB DDR4 RAM (PL)
• QSPI FLASH
• Optional additional DRAM
• MMC: Atmel ATxMega 128 as MMC
• Software / Firmware: Linux

Front Panel Connectivity

• Console via USB
• SD-Card
• Status / Fault / Hot-Swap LEDs

Backplane Connectivity

• IPMI
• TCLKA-D, FCLKA
• AMC Ports 0/1: 1G-KX
• AMC Ports 4/8: PCIe x1/x2 or 10G-KR

Clocking

• Stratum III oscillator
• Multifunctional PLL