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 channels 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;
  • Onboard XO 50MHz ±20ppm for PS part clocking, inside chip there are PLLs for various part clocking;
  • The clock generating IC – SI5341A – provide flexible clocking to the 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.  Example video in/out hw for USB3.0 are:

For video output For video input

Applications

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

3D model of SE125

 

3D model of SE125

Component side Solder side frontal view

3D Model of all interfaces Location of interfaces

Low profile PC, front Low profile PC, rear

Block Diagram

Windows 1o and Linux driver are available.

Vivado  project is supplied for BSP.

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