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Build me an Embedded Processing System and I'll Give You a Zynq®︎-7000 SoC ZC702 Evaluation Kit

rscasny

I was in the right place at the right time. I was asked, "I have two ZynqRegistered-7000 SoC ZC702 Evaluation Kits, would you like them?" For one second I paused, and declared," YES!"

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So, here I am, sitting at my desk in the element14 offices in Chicago with two fairly big boxes to giveaway to the right people. Don't know much about the ZynqRegistered-7000 SoC ZC702 Evaluation Kit? Let me fill you in a bit: It has all components of hardware, design tools, IP, and pre-verified reference designs to enable you to build a complete embedded processing platform. It includes pre-verified reference designs and industry-standard FPGA Mezzanine Connectors (FMC) allow scaling and customization with daughter cards. A picture is worth a thousand, so here's a short video for you to take a look-

 

 

Here's the features and benefitsfeatures and benefits:

 

  • Optimized for quickly prototyping embedded applications using Zynq-7000 SoCs
  • Hardware, design tools, IP, and pre-verified reference designs
  • Demonstrates a embedded design, targeting video pipeline
  • Advanced memory interface with 1GB DDR3 Component Memory
  • Enabling serial connectivity with USB OTG, UART, IIC, CAN Bus
  • Supports embedded processing with Dual ARM Cortex-A9 core processors
  • Develop networking applications with 10-100-1000 Mbps Ethernet (GMII, RGMII and SGMII)
  • Implement Video display applications with HDMI out
  • Expand I/O with the FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) interface

 

How to Get One of These Kits?

 

I'd like to get some ideas or proposals for an embedded project that uses these kits. Consider the proposals like a Design challenge for Programmable Devices -- something we haven't done yet. What would you build or Prototype? Tell me the how's and why's of it. I don't expect you to change the world, but I'd like to use these kits for a project with a WoW factor. Please enter your project idea in the comment section below.

 

Sincerely,

 

Randall Scasny

RoadTest Program Manager

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  • Are there any other members interested in submitting a project proposal for this kit?

     

    If so, please put it in the comments as soon as you can. I'm looking over the proposals now.

     

    Randall

  • in reply to rscasny

    Hi Randall,

     

    Can I submit one by tomorrow afternoon ?

     

    Regards,

    GS Gill

  • in reply to gsgill112

    Yes. It looks like I won't get to this today. So, go ahead and submit it tomorrow.

     

    Randall

  • in reply to rscasny

    First of all Thanks for yet another great opportunity,

     

    1.     As I am new to Programming Programable Logicimage, I would start by doing a Series of Tutorial on Programmable Logic and FPGA.

    (Didn't got a chance to work on these babies till date, so I would love to do some justice here)

     

    2.     As far as projects go, I will start with Mini Projects To include the following(these will be part of the Tutorials mentioned above :-

     

            (a)     Basic IO, RTC , Serial and Parallel Protocols. (With Tech Growing So Rapidly, I always wanted a way to demonstrate progress we have made in the past going from  Parallel to Serial to High speed bus. This is perfect kit to do so.)

     

            (b)       Next set will focus on Advance Interface (Connectivity) i.e. Giving the Boards its senses and make the board do things preceding to make it an Embedded System. (This part will focus on Interfaces and Connectivity including Motor driving, Analog Interfaces, HDMI Out and many more.)

     

            (c)     Finally the last part will cover the brains Starting from Basic State Machine Implementation to some real need things like Xilinx AI Acceleration Interface and Machine Learning Interface adding things like Image Classifier , CNN/ BNN. (Thanks to awesome Tutorials available and this awesome community )

     

    3.     As an Embedded System, I would design a  Self Learning Predictive Maintenance and Preventive System which could do the following,

              (a)     Classify the Person using the system.

              (b)     Gather the usage pattern and the Train the Neural Net (Accelerated)

              (c)     Suggest Maintenance Schedules and Predict Failures.

              (d)     Save Valuable Money Ofcource image

     

    Thanks & Regards,

    GS Gill

     

    P.S. >> I really want to enter the domain of Programable Logic, and am really desperate to dive deep into this domain. So, I am really sorry for being the cause of Delay in your decision  .

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  • in reply to rscasny

    First of all Thanks for yet another great opportunity,

     

    1.     As I am new to Programming Programable Logicimage, I would start by doing a Series of Tutorial on Programmable Logic and FPGA.

    (Didn't got a chance to work on these babies till date, so I would love to do some justice here)

     

    2.     As far as projects go, I will start with Mini Projects To include the following(these will be part of the Tutorials mentioned above :-

     

            (a)     Basic IO, RTC , Serial and Parallel Protocols. (With Tech Growing So Rapidly, I always wanted a way to demonstrate progress we have made in the past going from  Parallel to Serial to High speed bus. This is perfect kit to do so.)

     

            (b)       Next set will focus on Advance Interface (Connectivity) i.e. Giving the Boards its senses and make the board do things preceding to make it an Embedded System. (This part will focus on Interfaces and Connectivity including Motor driving, Analog Interfaces, HDMI Out and many more.)

     

            (c)     Finally the last part will cover the brains Starting from Basic State Machine Implementation to some real need things like Xilinx AI Acceleration Interface and Machine Learning Interface adding things like Image Classifier , CNN/ BNN. (Thanks to awesome Tutorials available and this awesome community )

     

    3.     As an Embedded System, I would design a  Self Learning Predictive Maintenance and Preventive System which could do the following,

              (a)     Classify the Person using the system.

              (b)     Gather the usage pattern and the Train the Neural Net (Accelerated)

              (c)     Suggest Maintenance Schedules and Predict Failures.

              (d)     Save Valuable Money Ofcource image

     

    Thanks & Regards,

    GS Gill

     

    P.S. >> I really want to enter the domain of Programable Logic, and am really desperate to dive deep into this domain. So, I am really sorry for being the cause of Delay in your decision  .

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