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In Search of RoadTesters to Take On The All Programmable SoC (AVNET MiniZed RoadTest)

rscasny

I'm in search of a few more roadtesters who would like to experiment with the Avnet MiniZed board.

 

What do you need?

 

1. Got to be Clever.

2. Inventiveness Helps

3. A Thirst for Learning

4. A love for Electronics

5. A Wish to Say "Hello World"

6. Beauty is not a requirement

7. A knack for tinkering is preferred

8. The ability to enter into the world of FPGA SoCs are pure magic.

9. A Messy Benchtop

10. A devotion to new technology. That's music to our ears.

 

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(Here's something you should know about the MiniZed: "The board aims to showcase the power of Zynq, where the Cortex A9 processor core integrates seamlessly with the programmable fabric to provide signal

processing and control solutions."

 

Sign Up for the RoadTest Here: AVNET MiniZed

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  • I don't know about others, but I can tell you why I won't apply to this, even tho I have both the motivation and background to test it.

     

    It may be a good product for some people who want a bunch of functionality out of the box, but it hardly qualifies as a dev board (which is what I usually need). At best, it can be considered a demo board or even a finished product, that makers can use.

     

    As a dev board is of little value, because it only exposes a couple of the IOs, so you can't connect your own circuitry to it. You can only use it as a whole, which is rarely something you want to do (or is even possible) during product development.

     

    To me, given the contradiction between the Arduino header, the complexity of the IC and the lack of IOs, is not even clear who this board is aimed at. Perhaps the target audience should be established first and then explain what this board can do for them.

     

    Regards,

    Razvan

  • in reply to jadew

    Agreed, I've had the same problem with the Avnet Arty board (for Artix) FPGA, when we moved to a much pricier board it was still a bit limited for easy to get at IO but did have Xilinx mezzanine board connectors which allow access to a lot more IO with some difficulty (we used a Cypress adapter board which was sold for something quite different but had the right connectors broken out to pins.

     

    MK

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  • in reply to jadew

    Agreed, I've had the same problem with the Avnet Arty board (for Artix) FPGA, when we moved to a much pricier board it was still a bit limited for easy to get at IO but did have Xilinx mezzanine board connectors which allow access to a lot more IO with some difficulty (we used a Cypress adapter board which was sold for something quite different but had the right connectors broken out to pins.

     

    MK

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