ALINX AC7Z020 ZYNQ7000 FPGA Development Board
Product Information
The ZYNQ7000 FPGA Development Board is a development board that features the XC7Z100-1CLG400I chip, which is part of the ZYNQ7000 series. It has an ARM dual-core CortexA9-based application processor with a clock speed of up to 800MHz, 256KB on-chip RAM, and external storage interface that supports 16/32 bit DDR2, DDR3 interface. The board also has two Gigabit NIC support, two USB2.0 OTG interfaces, two CAN2.0B bus interfaces, two SD card, SDIO, MMC compatible controllers, 2 SPIs, 2 UARTs, 2 I2C interfaces, and 4 pairs of 32bit GPIO. The board has a core board (AC7Z010) that uses two Micron’s MT41K128M16TW-107 DDR3 chips with a combined capacity of 256MB and a data bus width of 32-bit. The board also has user LEDs, user keys, expansion header, JTAG debug port, and power supply.
Product Usage Instructions
To use the ZYNQ7000 FPGA Development Board, follow these steps:
- Connect the power supply to the board.
- Connect the board to your computer using a USB cable.
- Install any necessary drivers for the board on your computer.
- Open your software development environment and create a new project.
- Configure your project settings to use the ZYNQ7000 FPGA Development Board.
- Write your code and compile it.
- Upload the compiled code to the board using the JTAG debug port.
- Test your code on the board.
Note: Refer to the user manual for more detailed information on the board’s features and usage.
Version Record
Version | Date | Release By | Description |
Rev 1.0 | 2019-12-15 | Rachel Zhou | First Release |
AC7Z010 core board
AC7Z010 core board Introduction
- AC7Z010 (core board model, the same below) FPGA core board, ZYNQ chip is based on XC7Z010-1CLG400I of XILINX company ZYNQ7000 series. The ZYNQ chip’s PS system integrates two ARM CortexTM-A9 processors, AMBA® interconnects, internal memory, external memory interfaces and peripherals. The FPGA of the ZYNQ chip contains a wealth of programmable logic cells, DSP and internal RAM.
- This core board uses two Micron’s MT41K128M16TW-107 DDR3 chips, each of which has a capacity of 256MB; the two DDR chips combine to form a 32-bit data bus width, and the clock frequency of read and write data between ZYNQ and DDR3 Up to 533Mhz; this configuration can meet the needs of the system’s high-bandwidth data processing
- In order to connect with the carrier board, the two board-to-board connectors of this core board are extended with USB ports on the PS side, Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, SD card slot, and other remaining MIO ports (48). As well as almost all IO ports (100) of BANK13 (only for AC7Z010), BAN34 and BANK35 on the PL side, the IO levels of BANK34 and BANK35 can be provided through the carrier board to meet users’ requirements for different level interfaces. For users who need a lot of IO, this core board will be a good choice. And the IO connection part, the ZYNQ chip to the interface between the equal length and differential processing, and the core board size is only 35 * 42 (mm), which is very suitable for secondary development.
ZYNQ Chip
The FPGA core board AC7Z010 uses Xilinx’s Zynq7000 series chip, module XC7Z010-1CLG400I. The chip’s PS system integrates two ARM Cortex™-A9 processors, AMBA® interconnects, internal memory, external memory interfaces and peripherals. These peripherals mainly include USB bus interface, Ethernet interface, SD/SDIO interface, I2C bus interface, CAN bus interface, UART interface, GPIO etc. The PS can operate independently and start up at power on or reset. Figure 2-2-1 detailed the Overall Block Diagram of the ZYNQ7000 Chip.
The main parameters of the PS system part are as follows:
- ARM dual-core CortexA9-based application processor, ARM-v7 architecture, up to 800MHz
- 32KB level 1 instruction and data cache per CPU, 512KB level 2 cache 2 CPU shares
- On-chip boot ROM and 256KB on-chip RAM
- External storage interface, support 16/32 bit DDR2, DDR3 interface
- Two Gigabit NIC support: divergent-aggregate DMA, GMII, RGMII, SGMII interface
- Two USB2.0 OTG interfaces, each supporting up to 12 nodes
- Two CAN2.0B bus interfaces
- Two SD card, SDIO, MMC compatible controllers
- 2 SPIs, 2 UARTs, 2 I2C interfaces
- 4 pairs of 32bit GPIO, 54 (32 + 22) as PS system IO, 64 connected to PL
- High bandwidth connection within PS and PS to PL
The main parameters of the PL logic part are as follows:
- Logic Cells: 28K
- Look-up-tables (LUTs): 17600
- Flip-flops: 35,200
- 18x25MACCs: 80
- Block RAM: 240KB
- Two AD converters for on-chip voltage, temperature sensing and up to 17 external differential input channels, 1MBPS
- XC7Z100-1CLG400I chip speed grade is -1, industrial grade, package is BGA400, pin pitch is 0.8mm the specific chip model definition of ZYNQ7000 series is shown in Figure 2-2-2
DDR3 DRAM
- The FPGA core board AC7Z010 is equipped with two Micron DDR3 SDRAM chips (1GB in total), model MT41K128M16TW-107 (Compatible with Hynix
- H5TQ2G63AFR-PBI). The total bus width of DDR3 SDRAM is 32bit. DDR3 SDRAM operates at a maximum speed of 533MHz (data rate1066Mbps). The DDR3 memory system is directly connected to the memory interface of the BANK 502 of the ZYNQ Processing System (PS). The specific configuration of DDR3 SDRAM is shown in Table 2-3-1 below:
Bit Number | Chip Model | Capacity | Factory |
U8,U9 | MT41K128M16TW-107 | 256M x 16bit | Micron |
Table 2-3-1: DDR3 SDRAM Configuration
The hardware design of DDR3 requires strict consideration of signal integrity. We have fully considered the matching resistor/terminal resistance, trace impedance control, and trace length control in circuit design and PCB design to ensure high-speed and stable operation of DDR3.
DDR3 DRAM pin assignment:
Signal Name | ZYNQ Pin Name | ZYNQ Pin Number |
DDR3_DQS0_P | PS_DDR_DQS_P0_502 | C2 |
DDR3_DQS0_N | PS_DDR_DQS_N0_502 | B2 |
DDR3_DQS1_P | PS_DDR_DQS_P1_502 | G2 |
DDR3_DQS1_N | PS_DDR_DQS_N1_502 | F2 |
DDR3_DQS2_P | PS_DDR_DQS_P2_502 | R2 |
DDR3_DQS2_N | PS_DDR_DQS_N2_502 | T2 |
DDR3_DQS3_P | PS_DDR_DQS_P3_502 | W5 |
DDR3_DQS4_N | PS_DDR_DQS_N3_502 | W4 |
DDR3_D0 | PS_DDR_DQ0_502 | C3 |
DDR3_D1 | PS_DDR_DQ1_502 | B3 |
DDR3_D2 | PS_DDR_DQ2_502 | A2 |
DDR3_D3 | PS_DDR_DQ3_502 | A4 |
DDR3_D4 | PS_DDR_DQ4_502 | D3 |
DDR3_D5 | PS_DDR_DQ5_502 | D1 |
DDR3_D6 | PS_DDR_DQ6_502 | C1 |
DDR3_D7 | PS_DDR_DQ7_502 | E1 |
DDR3_D8 | PS_DDR_DQ8_502 | E2 |
DDR3_D9 | PS_DDR_DQ9_502 | E3 |
DDR3_D10 | PS_DDR_DQ10_502 | G3 |
DDR3_D11 | PS_DDR_DQ11_502 | H3 |
DDR3_D12 | PS_DDR_DQ12_502 | J3 |
DDR3_D13 | PS_DDR_DQ13_502 | H2 |
DDR3_D14 | PS_DDR_DQ14_502 | H1 |
DDR3_D15 | PS_DDR_DQ15_502 | J1 |
DDR3_D16 | PS_DDR_DQ16_502 | P1 |
DDR3_D17 | PS_DDR_DQ17_502 | P3 |
DDR3_D18 | PS_DDR_DQ18_502 | R3 |
DDR3_D19 | PS_DDR_DQ19_502 | R1 |
DDR3_D20 | PS_DDR_DQ20_502 | T4 |
DDR3_D21 | PS_DDR_DQ21_502 | U4 |
DDR3_D22 | PS_DDR_DQ22_502 | U2 |
DDR3_D23 | PS_DDR_DQ23_502 | U3 |
DDR3_D24 | PS_DDR_DQ24_502 | V1 |
DDR3_D25 | PS_DDR_DQ25_502 | Y3 |
DDR3_D26 | PS_DDR_DQ26_502 | W1 |
DDR3_D27 | PS_DDR_DQ27_502 | Y4 |
DDR3_D28 | PS_DDR_DQ28_502 | Y2 |
DDR3_D29 | PS_DDR_DQ29_502 | W3 |
DDR3_D30 | PS_DDR_DQ30_502 | V2 |
DDR3_D31 | PS_DDR_DQ31_502 | V3 |
DDR3_DM0 | PS_DDR_DM0_502 | A1 |
DDR3_DM1 | PS_DDR_DM1_502 | F1 |
DDR3_DM2 | PS_DDR_DM2_502 | T1 |
DDR3_DM3 | PS_DDR_DM3_502 | Y1 |
DDR3_A0 | PS_DDR_A0_502 | N2 |
DDR3_A1 | PS_DDR_A1_502 | K2 |
DDR3_A2 | PS_DDR_A2_502 | M3 |
DDR3_A3 | PS_DDR_A3_502 | K3 |
DDR3_A4 | PS_DDR_A4_502 | M4 |
DDR3_A5 | PS_DDR_A5_502 | L1 |
DDR3_A6 | PS_DDR_A6_502 | L4 |
DDR3_A7 | PS_DDR_A7_502 | K4 |
DDR3_A8 | PS_DDR_A8_502 | K1 |
DDR3_A9 | PS_DDR_A9_502 | J4 |
DDR3_A10 | PS_DDR_A10_502 | F5 |
DDR3_A11 | PS_DDR_A11_502 | G4 |
DDR3_A12 | PS_DDR_A12_502 | E4 |
DDR3_A13 | PS_DDR_A13_502 | D4 |
DDR3_A14 | PS_DDR_A14_502 | F4 |
DDR3_BA0 | PS_DDR_BA0_502 | L5 |
DDR3_BA1 | PS_DDR_BA1_502 | R4 |
DDR3_BA2 | PS_DDR_BA2_502 | J5 |
DDR3_S0 | PS_DDR_CS_B_502 | N1 |
DDR3_RAS | PS_DDR_RAS_B_502 | P4 |
DDR3_CAS | PS_DDR_CAS_B_502 | P5 |
DDR3_WE | PS_DDR_WE_B_502 | M5 |
DDR3_ODT | PS_DDR_ODT_502 | N5 |
DDR3_RESET | PS_DDR_DRST_B_502 | B4 |
DDR3_CLK0_P | PS_DDR_CKP_502 | L2 |
DDR3_CLK0_N | PS_DDR_CKN_502 | M2 |
DDR3_CKE | PS_DDR_CKE_502 | N3 |
QSPI Flash
The FPGA core board AC7Z010 is equipped with one 256MBit Quad-SPI FLASH chip, the flash model is W25Q256FVEI, which uses the 3.3V CMOS voltage standard. Due to the non-volatile nature of QSPI FLASH, it can be used as a boot device for the system to store the boot image of the system. These images mainly include FPGA bit files, ARM application code, and other user data files. The specific models and related parameters of QSPI FLASH are shown in Table 2-4-1.
Position | Model | Capacity | Factory |
U15 | W25Q256FVEI | 32M Byte | Winbond |
Table 2-4-1: QSPI FLASH Specification
QSPI FLASH is connected to the GPIO port of the BANK500 in the PS section of the ZYNQ chip. In the system design, the GPIO port functions of these PS ports need to be configured as the QSPI FLASH interface. Figure 2-4-1 shows the QSPI Flash in the schematic.
Configure chip pin assignments:
Signal Name | ZYNQ Pin Name | ZYNQ Pin Number |
QSPI_SCK | PS_MIO6_500 | A5 |
QSPI_CS | PS_MIO1_500 | A7 |
QSPI_D0 | PS_MIO2_500 | B8 |
QSPI_D1 | PS_MIO3_500 | D6 |
QSPI_D2 | PS_MIO4_500 | B7 |
QSPI_D3 | PS_MIO5_500 | A6 |
Clock configuration
The AC7Z010 core board provides an active clock for the PS system, so that the PS system can work independently.
PS system clock source
The ZYNQ chip provides 33.333333MHz clock input for the PS part through the X1 crystal on the core board. The clock input is connected to the PS_CLK_500 pin of the ZYNQ chip BANK500. Its schematic diagram is shown in Figure 2-5-1:
Clock pin assignment:
Signal name | ZYNQ Pin |
PS_CLK_500 | E7 |
Power Supply
The power supply voltage of the AC7Z010 core board is DC5V, which is supplied by connecting the carrier board. In addition, the power of BANK34 and BANK35 is also provided through the carrier board. The schematic diagram of the power supply design on the core board is shown in Figure 2-6-1:
The FPGA development board is powered by + 5V, and is converted into + 1.0V, + 1.8V, + 1.5V, + 3.3V four power supplies through four DC / DC power chips. The output current of + 1.0V can reach 6A, + 1.8V and + 1.5V power output current is 3A, + 3.3V output current is 500mA. J29 also has 4 pins each to supply power to FPGA BANK34 and BANK35. The default is 3.3V. Users can change the power of BANK34 and BANK35 by changing VCCIO34 and VCCIO35 on the backplane. 1.5V generates the VTT and VREF voltages required by DDR3 through TI’s TPS51206. The functions of each power distribution are shown in the following table:
Power Supply | Function |
+1.0V | ZYNQ PS and PL section Core Voltage |
+1.8V | ZYNQ PS and PL partial auxiliary voltage
BANK501 IO voltage |
+3.3V | ZYNQ Bank0,Bank500,QSIP FLASH
Clock Crystal |
+1.5V | DDR3, ZYNQ Bank501 |
VREF,VTT(+0.75V) | DDR3 |
VCCIO34/35 | Bank34, Bank35 |
Because the power supply of the ZYNQ FPGA has the power-on sequence requirements, in the circuit design, we have designed according to the power requirements of the chip. The power-on sequence is+1.0V->+1.8V->(+1.5 V, +3.3V, VCCIO) circuit design to ensure the normal operation of the chip. Because the level standards of BANK34 and BANK35 are determined by the power supply provided by the carrier board, the highest is 3.3V. When you design the carrier board to provide the VCCIO34 and VCCIO35 power for the core board, the power-on sequence is slower than + 5V.
AC7Z010 Core Board Size Dimension
Board to Board Connectors pin assignment
The core board has a total of two high-speed expansion ports. It uses two 120-pin inter-board connectors (J29/J30) to connect to the carrier board. The PIN spacing of the board to board connector is 0.5mm, among them, J29 is connected to 5V power, VCCIO power input, some IO signals and JTAG signals, and J30 is connected to the remaining IO signals and MIO. The IO level of BANK34 and BANK35 can be changed by adjusting the VCCIO input on the connector, the highest level does not exceed 3.3V. The AX7Z010 carrier board we designed is 3.3V by default. Note that the IO of BANK13 is not
Pin assignment of board to board connector J29
J29 Pin | Signal
Name |
ZYNQ Pin
Number |
J29 Pin | Signal Name | ZYNQ Pin
Number |
1 | VCC5V | – | 2 | VCC5V | – |
3 | VCC5V | – | 4 | VCC5V | – |
5 | VCC5V | – | 6 | VCC5V | – |
7 | VCC5V | – | 8 | VCC5V | – |
9 | GND | – | 10 | GND | – |
11 | VCCIO_34 | – | 12 | VCCIO_35 | – |
13 | VCCIO_34 | – | 14 | VCCIO_35 | – |
15 | VCCIO_34 | – | 16 | VCCIO_35 | – |
17 | VCCIO_34 | – | 18 | VCCIO_35 | – |
19 | GND | – | 20 | GND | – |
21 | IO34_L10P | V15 | 22 | IO34_L7P | Y16 |
23 | IO34_L10N | W15 | 24 | IO34_L7N | Y17 |
25 | IO34_L15N | U20 | 26 | IO34_L17P | Y18 |
27 | IO34_L15P | T20 | 28 | IO34_L17N | Y19 |
29 | GND | – | 30 | GND | – |
31 | IO34_L9N | U17 | 32 | IO34_L8P | W14 |
33 | IO34_L9P | T16 | 34 | IO34_L8N | Y14 |
35 | IO34_L12N | U19 | 36 | IO34_L3P | U13 |
37 | IO34_L12P | U18 | 38 | IO34_L3N | V13 |
39 | GND | – | 40 | GND | – |
41 | IO34_L14N | P20 | 42 | IO34_L21N | V18 |
43 | IO34_L14P | N20 | 44 | IO34_L21P | V17 |
45 | IO34_L16N | W20 | 46 | IO34_L18P | V16 |
47 | IO34_L16P | V20 | 48 | IO34_L18N | W16 |
49 | GND | – | 50 | GND | – |
51 | IO34_L22N | W19 | 52 | IO34_L23P | N17 |
53 | IO34_L22P | W18 | 54 | IO34_L23N | P18 |
55 | IO34_L20N | R18 | 56 | IO34_L13N | P19 |
57 | IO34_L20P | T17 | 58 | IO34_L13P | N18 |
59 | GND | – | 60 | GND | – |
61 | IO34_L19N | R17 | 62 | IO34_L11N | U15 |
63 | IO34_L19P | R16 | 64 | IO34_L11P | U14 |
65 | IO34_L24P | P15 | 66 | IO34_L5N | T15 |
67 | IO34_L24N | P16 | 68 | IO34_L5P | T14 |
69 | GND | – | 70 | GND | – |
71 | IO34_L4P | V12 | 72 | IO34_L2N | U12 |
73 | IO34_L4N | W13 | 74 | IO34_L2P | T12 |
75 | IO34_L1P | T11 | 76 | IO34_L6N | R14 |
77 | IO34_L1N | T10 | 78 | IO34_L6P | P14 |
79 | GND | – | 80 | GND | – |
81 | IO13_L13P | Y7 | 82 | IO13_L21P | V11 |
83 | IO13_L13N | Y6 | 84 | IO13_L21N | V10 |
85 | IO13_L11N | V7 | 86 | IO13_L14N | Y8 |
87 | IO13_L11P | U7 | 88 | IO13_L14P | Y9 |
89 | GND | – | 90 | GND | – |
91 | IO13_L19N | U5 | 92 | IO13_L22N | W6 |
93 | IO13_L19P | T5 | 94 | IO13_L22P | V6 |
95 | IO13_L16P | W10 | 96 | IO13_L15P | V8 |
97 | IO13_L16N | W9 | 98 | IO13_L15N | W8 |
99 | GND | – | 100 | GND | – |
101 | IO13_L17P | U9 | 102 | IO13_L20P | Y12 |
103 | IO13_L17N | U8 | 104 | IO13_L20N | Y13 |
105 | IO13_L18P | W11 | 106 | IO13_L12N | U10 |
107 | IO13_L18N | Y11 | 108 | IO13_L12P | T9 |
109 | GND | – | 110 | GND | – |
111 | FPGA_TCK | F9 | 112 | VP | K9 |
113 | FPGA_TMS | J6 | 114 | VN | L10 |
115 | FPGA_TDO | F6 | 116 | PS_POR_B | C7 |
117 | FPGA_TDI | G6 | 118 | FPGA_DONE | R11 |
Pin assignment of board to board connector J30
J30 Pin | Signal Name | ZYNQ Pin
Number |
J30 Pin | Signal Name | ZYNQ
Pin Number |
1 | IO35_L1P | C20 | 2 | IO35_L15N | F20 |
3 | IO35_L1N | B20 | 4 | IO35_L15P | F19 |
5 | IO35_L18N | G20 | 6 | IO35_L5P | E18 |
7 | IO35_L18P | G19 | 8 | IO35_L5N | E19 |
9 | GND | T13 | 10 | GND | T13 |
11 | IO35_L10N | J19 | 12 | IO35_L3N | D18 |
13 | IO35_L10P | K19 | 14 | IO35_L3P | E17 |
15 | IO35_L2N | A20 | 16 | IO35_L4P | D19 |
17 | IO35_L2P | B19 | 18 | IO35_L4N | D20 |
19 | GND | T13 | 20 | GND | T13 |
21 | IO35_L8P | M17 | 22 | IO35_L9N | L20 |
23 | IO35_L8N | M18 | 24 | IO35_L9P | L19 |
25 | IO35_L7P | M19 | 26 | IO35_L6P | F16 |
27 | IO35_L7N | M20 | 28 | IO35_L6N | F17 |
29 | GND | T13 | 30 | GND | T13 |
31 | IO35_L17N | H20 | 32 | IO35_L16N | G18 |
33 | IO35_L17P | J20 | 34 | IO35_L16P | G17 |
35 | IO35_L19N | G15 | 36 | IO35_L13N | H17 |
37 | IO35_L19P | H15 | 38 | IO35_L13P | H16 |
39 | GND | T13 | 40 | GND | T13 |
41 | IO35_L12N | K18 | 42 | IO35_L14N | H18 |
43 | IO35_L12P | K17 | 44 | IO35_L14P | J18 |
45 | IO35_L24N | J16 | 46 | IO35_L20P | K14 |
47 | IO35_L24P | K16 | 48 | IO35_L20N | J14 |
49 | GND | T13 | 50 | GND | T13 |
51 | IO35_L21N | N16 | 52 | IO35_L11P | L16 |
53 | IO35_L21P | N15 | 54 | IO35_L11N | L17 |
55 | IO35_L22N | L15 | 56 | IO35_L23P | M14 |
57 | IO35_L22P | L14 | 58 | IO35_L23N | M15 |
59 | GND | T13 | 60 | GND | T13 |
61 | PS_MIO22 | B17 | 62 | PS_MIO50 | B13 |
63 | PS_MIO27 | D13 | 64 | PS_MIO45 | B15 |
65 | PS_MIO23 | D11 | 66 | PS_MIO46 | D16 |
67 | PS_MIO24 | A16 | 68 | PS_MIO41 | C17 |
69 | GND | T13 | 70 | GND | T13 |
71 | PS_MIO25 | F15 | 72 | PS_MIO7 | D8 |
73 | PS_MIO26 | A15 | 74 | PS_MIO12 | D9 |
75 | PS_MIO21 | F14 | 76 | PS_MIO10 | E9 |
77 | PS_MIO16 | A19 | 78 | PS_MIO11 | C6 |
79 | GND | T13 | 80 | GND | T13 |
81 | PS_MIO20 | A17 | 82 | PS_MIO9 | B5 |
83 | PS_MIO19 | D10 | 84 | PS_MIO14 | C5 |
85 | PS_MIO18 | B18 | 86 | PS_MIO8 | D5 |
87 | PS_MIO17 | E14 | 88 | PS_MIO0 | E6 |
89 | GND | T13 | 90 | GND | T13 |
91 | PS_MIO39 | C18 | 92 | PS_MIO13 | E8 |
93 | PS_MIO38 | E13 | 94 | PS_MIO47 | B14 |
95 | PS_MIO37 | A10 | 96 | PS_MIO48 | B12 |
97 | PS_MIO28 | C16 | 98 | PS_MIO49 | C12 |
99 | GND | T13 | 100 | GND | T13 |
101 | PS_MIO35 | F12 | 102 | PS_MIO52 | C10 |
103 | PS_MIO34 | A12 | 104 | PS_MIO51 | B9 |
105 | PS_MIO33 | D15 | 106 | PS_MIO40 | D14 |
107 | PS_MIO32 | A14 | 108 | PS_MIO44 | F13 |
109 | GND | T13 | 110 | GND | T13 |
111 | PS_MIO31 | E16 | 112 | PS_MIO15 | C8 |
113 | PS_MIO36 | A11 | 114 | PS_MIO42 | E12 |
115 | PS_MIO29 | C13 | 116 | PS_MIO43 | A9 |
117 | PS_MIO30 | C15 | 118 | PS_MIO53 | C11 |
119 | QSPI_D3_PS_MIO5 | A6 | 120 | QSPI_D2_PS_MIO4 | B7 |
Documents / Resources
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ALINX AC7Z020 ZYNQ7000 FPGA Development Board [pdf] User Manual AC7Z020, AC7Z020 ZYNQ7000 FPGA Development Board, ZYNQ7000 FPGA Development Board, FPGA Development Board, Development Board, Board |