Welcome to MicroZed

Thanks for taking your time to check out MicroZed. We have some documentation posted now -- schematics, layout, and bill of materials are all posted at http://www.microzed.org/documentation/1519. Over the next several weeks we will be posting more hardware documents and also adding tutorials, so stay tuned.

Bryan

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

I am very excited about this new board. I have a bunch of the old Virtex 4 mini-modules in service, and am considering making an adapter board and replacing with the MicroZed so we can do more wonderful things.

Looks like a fantastic board at the right price point.

Keep that documentation coming!

dale
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0 mangibu over 11 years ago

I am interested in a MicroZed with Zynq7020.
Do you know when this will be available?
Thank you.
Michael
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0 bhfletcher over 11 years ago in reply to mangibu

We haven't announced a Zynq 7020 version yet, but please keep in touch!
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0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Any idea when MicroZed will ship? I've got my order in at Avnet. Thanks.
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0 bhfletcher over 11 years ago in reply to Former Member

We had a very limited amount of stock come in the end of July. I am told that we have shipped some kits. If you have an urgent need, you can work with your Avnet salesperson or FAE to expedite. We have a large shipment coming in the end of August, so I would expect all orders to be shipped by mid-September.
Thanks for your interest in MicroZed!
Bryan
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0 Former Member over 11 years ago in reply to bhfletcher

I just got word my order shipped today! Thanks!
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0 sa-penguin over 11 years ago

The stripped-back low cost of the MicroZed certainly appeals. And the current adapter board, like the original Zedboard, allows you up to 8 PMOD devices. My only question is:
What about the rest of the Zedboard interfaces?

Will they eventually be available, via other adapter boards? Especially FMC: the lack of that is, sadly, a "deal-breaker" for me at the moment.
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0 bhfletcher over 11 years ago

We have one additional Carrier Card (with FMC) under development now. We have another one in proposal stage. Other ideas from the community are welcome!

Unfortunately, there isn't enough I/O on the CLG400 going across the microheaders to support a Carrier Card that is a duplicate of all the missing functionality in comparison to ZedBoard.

Please let me know your opinion on the most critical circuits that you'd like to see next.

Bryan
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0 sa-penguin over 11 years ago in reply to bhfletcher

when I'm working with high speed ADCs, only FMC can handle the pace. Even the ADC manufacturers now make FMC adapters for their eval cards. Short of designing an adapter card from scratch, they're the only way to got when data rates leave PMOD behind.

What else could I want? Well if I was greedy, I'd look at conventional dev boards {raspberry pi, beaglebone, cubieboard etc.] and ask for:

1. HDMI (out= minimum, in=Digilent ATLYS level)
2. SATA (Cubieboard), optional RAID
3. S/PDIF audio I/O (out is common, in is rare)
4. IR receiver (use as media centre, with remote)
5. DDR RAM slots: expansion when I want it
6. Multiple ethernet ports, WiFi.

Remember how Walkmans, and Personal Information Managers (Blackberry) got "absorbed" by mobile phones? I'd like to see home routers "absorb" media centres, and possibly even NAS. A long-term goal, but I believe it's achievable.
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0 Former Member over 11 years ago

I have just received my MicroZed board. This is what I have found out so far.
http://svenand.blogdrive.com/archive/205.html

Sven
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