ZCU111 Evaluation Board Overview

The ZCU28DR RFSoC device from AMD is featured on the ZCU111 evaluation board. The assessment of soft decision forward error correction (SDFEC), integrated RF-DAC and RF-ADC capability, FPGA fabric, and RFSoC features—such as the dual-core Arm Cortex-R5 real-time processors and the quad-core Arm Cortex®-A53 processing system (PS)—is made possible by this board. Many common board-level capabilities required for design development are on the ZCU111 evaluation board, including networking interfaces, DDR4 memory, an FMC+ expansion connection, and access to the novel RF-FMC interface.

An FMC XM500 balun transformer add-on card is included with the ZCU111 evaluation board kit out of the box to facilitate loopback evaluation and signal processing. This card has SMAs for custom baluns and filtering in addition to onboard high-frequency and low-frequency baluns. 

Figure1-ZCU111 Evaluation Board

ZCU111 Board Diagram

ZCU111 Evaluation Board Block Diagram

Figure2-ZCU111 Board Diagram

ZCU111 Evaluation Board Features

• XCZU28DR-2E, FFVG1517 package
• Form factor: rectangular 11.811 in. x 7.874 in. x 0.1 in.
• Configuration from:

° Dual Quad SPI

° Micro SD card

° USB-to-JTAG bridge

• Clocks

° GTR_REF_CLK_DP 27 MHz

° GTR_REF_CLK_USB3 26 MHz

° GTR_REF_CLK_SATA 125 MHz

° CLK_100 100 MHz

° CLK_125 125 MHz

° PS_REF_CLK 33.33 MHz

° USER_MGT_SI570 (default 156.25 MHz)

° USER_SI570 (default 300 MHz)

• PS DDR4 4 GB 64-bit SODIMM
• PL DDR4 4 GB 64-bit component (4x16-bit)
• PS GTR (bank 505) assignment

° DisplayPort 1.2 transmits only (two GTR)

° USB3 (one GTR)

° SATA with M2 connector (one GTR)

• PL GTY assignment (16 total)

° SFP28 (four, bank GTY128)

° FMCP HSCP DP (four, bank GTY129)

° FMCP HSCP DP (four, bank GTY130)

° FMCP HSCP DP (four, bank GTY131)

• PL FMCP HSCP (FMC+) connectivity - full LA[00:33] bus
• PS MIO connectivity

° PS MIO[0:5, 7:12]: dual Quad SPI flash memory

° PS MIO[13]: PS_GPIO2

° PS MIO[14:17]: two channels of I2C

° PS MIO[18:19]: UART (one of three FT4232 UART channels)

° PS MIO[22:23]: PS_PB, PS_LED I/F

° PS MIO[26]: platform management unit (PMU)

° PS MIO[27:30]: DisplayPort control

° PS MIO[32:37]: PMU_GPIO[0:5]

° PS MIO[38]: PS_GPIO1

° PS MIO[44:51]: SD I/F

° PS MIO[52:63]: USB3.0

° PS MIO[64:77]: GEM3 Ethernet

• PL I/O connections:

° PL-side user DIP switch (8-position)

° PL-side CPU reset pushbutton

° PL-side user LEDs (eight)

° PL-side user pushbuttons (five, geographic N, S, E, W, C)

° PL-side PMOD0/1 (two R.A. 2x6 receptacles)

• Security - PSBATT button battery backup
• SYSMON header
• Operational switches (power on/off, PROG_B, boot mode DIP switch)
• Operational status LEDs (INIT, DONE, PS STATUS, PGOOD)
• Power management
• System controller (MSP430)

ZCU111 Board Specifications

ZCU111  Benefits

• Evaluation Board ZCU111 for Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC with XCZU28DR-2FFVG1517E RFSoC
• A 4GB, 64-bit DDR4 component connected to a programmable logic (PL) system
• 4GB 64-bit DDR4 SODIMM, 2400MT/s, connected to Processor Subsystem (PS)
• The SFP28 cage has been gated to accommodate up to 4 SFP/SFP+/zSFP+/SFP28 modules.
• USB3, DisplayPort, and SATA
• 34 user-defined differential I/O signals and 12 33Gb/s GTY transceivers are included in the FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC+) interface for I/O expansion.
• Add-on card for XM500 RFMC balun transformer featuring 4 DACs/4 ADCs to baluns 4 ADCs and 4 DACs to SMAs

ZCU111 Evaluation Board

Figure3-ZCU111

What's Inside the Box?

Figure 4- What's Inside the Box?