MicroZed Development Kit

MicroZed is a low-cost development board based on the Xilinx Zynq®-7000 All Programmable SoC. Its unique design allows it to be used as both a stand-alone evaluation board for basic SoC experimentation, or combined with a carrier card as an embeddable system-on-module (SOM). MicroZed contains two I/O headers that provide connection to two I/O banks on the programmable logic (PL) side of the Zynq-7000 AP SoC device. In stand-alone mode, these 100 PL I/O are inactive. When plugged into a carrier card, the I/O are accessible in a manner defined by the carrier card design. Thus designers can start with MicroZed in stand-alone mode as a learning platform and then easily expand its functionality as a SOM through the addition of an off-the-shelf or custom designed carrier card. This combined stand-alone/SOM approach can quickly move a design idea from concept to production, making MicroZed the ideal platform for SoC based applications.

Features

1. SoC

  - XC7Z010-1CLG400C

2.  Memory

  - 1 GB of DDR3 SDRAM

  - 128 Mb of QSPI Flash

  - Micro SD card interface

3. Communications

  - 10/100/1000 Ethernet

  - USB 2.0

  - USB-UART

4. User I/O (via dual board-to-board connectors)

  - 100 User I/O (50 per connector)  

  - Configurable as up to 48 LVDS pairs or 100 single-ended I/

5. Software

  - Wind River Pulsar Linux certified image

  - PetaLinux

6. Other

  - 2x6 Digilent Pmod® compatible interface providing 8 PS MIO connections for user I/O

  - Xilinx PC4 JTAG configuration port

  - PS JTAG pins accessible via Pmod

  - 33.33 MHz oscillator

  - User LED and push switch