Solar Express 125 (SE125)

Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+ based MPSoC half size PCIe board

SE125 is a low profile, 8 lanes PCIe card powered by the Xilinx Zynq Utrascale+ MPSOC (XCZU7EV-2FFVC1156E / XCZU7EG/ XCZU11EG / XCZU7CG ). When XZU7EV is populated, it is capable of video decoding/encoding, up to 8K resolution, targeting Data Center video streaming applications and with 11EG it can be a network accelerator card. SE125 offers, eight lanes of PCI Express Gen 4 , two front panel USB 3.0 and one QSFP, 16 GB of DDR4 memory to PL organized as 2 independent banks of 8GB each (64 bits wide), 8GB of DDR4 to PS. Summary of devices and available resources:

Features

  • Xilinx XCZU7EV-2FFVC1156 MPSoC, with optional XCZU7CG, or XCZU7EG units instead;
  • QSFP+ Connector for 4 channel of 10GbE optic, or 40GbE (needs custom IP core);
  • PCIe x8 Gen.4 with SMBus for PC connectivity and firmware upgrade;
  • Dual QSPI FLASH for storing boot image;
  • RJ45 for Gigabit Ethernet;
  • 8GBytes of eMMC for firmware upgrade or data storage;
  • Four 1024×16 DDR4 chips (8GB) connected to PS part organize as 64 bit data bus;
  • 16GB of DDR4 to PL, through 2 independent banks of 8GB each, via 64 bits wide interface
  • Samtec FireFly optical-interface connectors, 4 lanes each;
  • Integrated Quad core ARM cortex A53 with NEON, Real time processing Dual-core ARM cortex-R5;
  • Integrated Mali-400 GPU with OpenGL ES2.0;
  • Display port v1.4 with 2 Tx lanes;
  • On board XO 50MHz ±20ppm for PS part clocking, inside chip there are PLLs for various part clocking;
  • Clock generating IC – SI5341A – provide flexible clocking to PL part of MPSoC and for GTR transceivers;
  • JTAG via parallel cable JTAG;
  • Two UARTS form ARM via USB IC CP2105, connector type – micro-B;
  • 6 pin PEG Connectors for external power;
  • SMBus compliant interface provided via PCIe connector;
  • A 3 pin connector for FAN;
  • 4 Status MPSoC LEDs, 6 power good LEDs for various power, 4 User LEDs;
  • Global reset button, and PS only reset button;
  • Dip switches for boot mode selection;
  • 2 host USB3.0 with USB2.0 interfaces for connection to devices. In particular for attaching to HDMI via USB3.0 – HDMI converters. Connector type USB 3.0 A.

 

Applications

  • Artificial Reality / Virtual Reality ( AR/VR)
  • Digital Communications
  • Network Acceleration
  • Data Centers with video streaming video encoding/decoding
  • High performance optical networking
  • Defense

 

Block Diagram

IP Cores / Drivers / BSP

Windows 10 and Linux driver are available.

Vivado  project is supplied for BSP.

 

Ordering Information

SE125-xyy-z-t

x = 7 or 11 in the case of EG only

yy = CG, or EV or EG

Z = speed grade which by default is -2 but -1 can be selected.

t = temperature grade. Default is -E which is extended but -C (commercial) or -I (industrial) can be selected