Xilinx Ultrascale+ Overview
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General Description
Xilinx® UltraScale™architecture combines the high performance requirements with a reduction of total power consumption through a lot of innovative tehnological improvements, needed in multiple high-demand products and industries. There are 3 Ultrascale families, Kintex FPGAa, Virtex FPGAs and Zynq MPSoCs. Kintex and Virtex are high-performance FPGAs families with different approaches as power optimization, performance, system capacity and cost. Zynq devices will be detail in depth in the next section.
Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC
Zynq MPSoCs provides a combination between the Ultrascale arquitecture and the high capacity of the ARM processors, through one ARM v8-based Cortex A53 64-bit application processor and a ARM Cortex-R5 real-time processor. Xilinx provides next-generation programmable engines, security, reliability and scalability from 32 to 64 bits. This architecture is the first one of its kind, and comes to accelerate and optimize processes, power requirements, programmable acceleration, I/O and memory management for any kind of applications. There are there variants, CG, EG, EV. CG provides dual application processor, EG provides quad application processor and GPU, and EV comes with video codec, creating a wide range of possibilities to explore.
Main Features
- Application processing unit (APU):
- Dual or Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 MPCore
- CPU frequency up to 1.5GHz
- Real-time processing unit (RPU):
- Dual-core ARM Cortex-R5 MPCore
- CPU frequency up to 600MHz
- Graphics processing unit (GPU)
- ARM Mali™-400 MP2
- GPU frequency up to 667MHz
- Video codec unit (VCU)
- Simultaneous Encode and Decode through separate cores
- H.264 high profile level 5.2 (4Kx2K-60)
- H.265 (HEVC) main, main10 profile, level 5.1, high Tier, up to 4Kx2K-60 rate
- 8 and 10 bit encoding
- 4:2:0 and 4:2:2 chroma sampling
In this link zynq-ultrascale-plus-product-selection-guide you will found all the features, devices, block diagrams, for the Zynq Family
ZCU102 Evaluation Board
Xilinx has released an evaluation kit for developers to start playing around with all the functionalities and capacity of the Zynq MPSoC. This board provides an starting point for designing and implementing high technology products for Automotive, Video and Communications industries. Multiple interfaces and peripherals are exposed in order to be used for a wide range of applications, and taking advantage of the programmable logic those applications can be as powerful and smarter as you want.
The board features can be detailed in the below image.
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