NAT-AMC-ZYNQUP-FMC

The NAT-AMC-ZYNQUP-FMC is an AMC (Advanced Mezzanine Card) featuring an Xilinx® Zynq UltraScale+ (for better readibility: ZYNQUP) MPSoC FPGA and an FMC (FPGA Mezzanine Card) slot supporting HPC (High Pin Count) and LPC (Low Pin Count) connector as defined by VITA 57.1.

The heart of the NAMC-ZYNQUP-FMC is the Xilinx® Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC FPGA in F1517 package with high count I/O to connect all pins of the HPC FMC connector to the FPGA core.

Xilinx® Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC family of FPGAs provides a comprehensive set of advanced power saving features and power-optimized MultiTrack routing and core architecture results in lower power and higher performance compared to the previous generation of mid-range and high-end-range FPGAs . They combine up to 653k logic elements, high speed SERDES interconnects and quad ARM Cortex-A53 MPCore up to 1.5 GHz. It provides the software programmability of an ARM®-based processor with the hardware programmability of an FPGA, enabling key analytics and hardware acceleration while integrating CPU, DSP, ASSP, and mixed signal functionality on a single device.

The NAMC-ZYNQUP-FMC is available in two FPGA configurations, either ZU7EG (504k logic cells, 1728 DSP slices) or ZU11EG (504k logic cells, 2928 DSP slices).

It provides two high-density DDR4 memory interfaces dedicated to FPGA (PL) and CPU (PS) with a total amount of up to 16 Gigabytes. To simplify the user interaction with the FPGA/SoC, the front panel of the board gives access to the MicroSD card and also allows for comfortable JTAG access.

The single width AMC  NAMC-ZYNQUP-FMC is available with mid-size of full-size front panels to allow FMCs to use the capabilities of the onboard Xilinx® Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoCFPGA to the full extent.

The capability of carrying both HPC and LPC FMC modules allows the NAMC-ZYNQUP-FMC to be used in a wide range of applications providing data acquisition, networking, RF, or other functionality. Typical applications might be wireless base stations, camera systems or generic research applications which require high speed sensor data conversions from analogue to digital.

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

Processing Resources

• Multi Processor System on Chip (MPSoC) Xilinx UltraScale+ ZU7EG or ZU11EG – F1517 footprint
• Application processor: quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 MPCore up to 1.5 GHz
• Real-time processor: Dual-core ARM Cortex-R5 MPCore up to 600 MHz
• System logic cells: 504k / 653k
• DSP slices: 1728 / 2928
• 14x GTH 16.3Gb/s transceivers to MTCA backplane
• 10x GTH 16.3Gb/s transceivers to mezzanine cards

Memory & Storage

• 8GB DDR4 (x64, 1600-3200Mb/s) for ARM-CPU (PS)
• 8GB DDR4 (x64, 1600-3200Mb/s) for FPGA (PL)
• 4GB eMMC
• SD card holder
• QSPI flash
• Connector for additional memory modules
• Optional RLDRAM3 on module (2133Mb/s, 1 Gb, x36, 8ns tRC) for low latency access (up to 6 times faster than DDR4-3200). Useful for applications requiring RAM look up tables (LUTs)
• Optional QDR4 SRAM or additional DDR4-SDRAM

FMC slot

• Single HPC FMC slot
• VITA 57.1 compliant (with limitations, see chapter 5.3.1)
• HPC differential pairs (LA/HA/HB) are routed to the FPGA
• DP0 to DP9 are routed to the FPGA
• Support of region 1,2, and 3* FMC modules

Front Panel Connectivity

• Optional clock IN/OUT
• USB/JTAG-Connector
• SD card slot
• Status / Fault / Hot-Swap LEDs

Backplane Connectivity

• 2x 1 GbE at AMC Ports 0/1
• FPGA-LVDS-I/Os at AMC Ports 2/3
• PCIe / Ethernet / custom protocol at AMC Ports 4-15
• Any combinations of PCIe, SRIO, 10G/40G (on request)
• Full AMC TCLKA-D and FCLKA connectivity (bidirectional)
• Point to point connectivity: AMC Ports 12-15 routed to FPGA (2x 4 LVDS)
• 8x MLVDS trigger lines to AMC Ports 17-20
• JTAG access via backplane

Board Support Package

• Linux boot – Linux Drivers
• AXI4 Wrappers to all external/internal interfaces (soon)
• Design example (soon)
• Documentation