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Heads Up on an Upcoming RoadTest: Ultra96

rscasny

I wanted to give everyone in the RoadTest group some info on a new development board that will be roadtested in the near future: the Ultra96Tm. This board is a great fit for anyone involve in AI or machine learning applications.

 

What follows is a brief overview of the Ultra96Tm.

 

Ultra96Tm is an ARM-based, Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+Tm MPSoC development board based on the Linaro 96Boards specification. The 96Boards’ specifications are open and define a standard board layout for development platforms that can be used by software application, hardware device, kernel, and other system software developers.image

 

Features include:

  • Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC ZU3EG A484
  • Micron 2 GB (512M x32) LPDDR4 Memory
  • Delkin 16 GB MicroSD card + adapter
  • Pre-loaded with PetaLinux environment
  • Wi-Fi / Bluetooth
  • Mini DisplayPort (MiniDP or mDP)
  • 1x USB 3.0 Type Micro-B upstream port
  • 2x USB 3.0, 1x USB 2.0 Type A downstream ports
  • 40-pin 96Boards Low-speed expansion header
  • 60-pin 96Boards High speed expansion header
  • 85mm x 54mm form factor
  • Linaro 96Boards Consumer Edition compatible

 

Ultra96 boots from the provided Delkin 16 GB MicroSD card, pre-loaded with PetaLinux. You have the option of connecting to Ultra96 through a Webserver using integrated wireless access point capability or to use the provided PetaLinux desktop environment which can be viewed on the integrated Mini DisplayPort video output.

 

Ultra96 provides four user-controllable LEDs. Engineers may also interact with the board through the 96Boards-compatible low-speed and high-speed expansion connectors by adding peripheral accessories such as those included in Seed Studio’s Grove Starter Kit for 96Boards.

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What do you thinking about roadtesting this board? What would you do with it?

  • i was reading this article on Xilinx about A section about training the BNN is in progress and will be added soon.

    May I know if is it available?

  • Related to Ultra96, take a look at this blog to learn why we chose a Delkin MLC Utility card rather than an inexpensive retail card for the Ultra96 kit.

     

    Storage Insights #1 - Why Not All SD Cards are Created Equal

     

    Bryan

  • Having Arm-based, Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ it seems this board can take on some processing. To learn about the processing capability of this board for starters I would do a PMOD Sensor based learning project. And with this one can estimate how the board performs with the learning algorithms; something on the lines of IOT sensor based learning.

     

    Cheers image

  • I think whoever is doing this road test is in for some heavy work. We have seen that with the recent MiniZed board and the Basys3, and this board can do even more. It really is a single-board computer (4 ARM cores) with an attached FPGA. And the latter is quite powerful (with 150k logic cells). Using this for AI or machine learning will be a challenge.

    What I would like to do with that board is building a stand-alone logic analyzer. With the OLS there is a quite powerful FPGA core available (and with the DemonCore there is a variant adding extensive triggering). The Ultra96 adds an even faster FPGA and much more memory to the mix, and the ARM cores can run the GUI. The UltraScale+ comes with its own Mali 400 GPU, and even has DSP elements for post-processing. That would be cool, although probably not the intended use case (the product selector lists flight navigation and missiles...)

  • Make sure to check the description of the video

  • in reply to yosoufe

    The Ultra96 kit ships with a node-locked, device-locked license voucher for SDSoC. That will get you access to the tool and updates for a year. Avnet is working with Xilinx to create a baseline SDSoC platform for Ultra96, so look for that to come out soon.

    Bryan

  • in reply to cghaba

    No. You can download it from here. But it needs SDSoC to use it, according to the same page.

    It seems revision is made for a development kit zcu102 which has an FPGA  in the same family as Ultra96's chip but about 4 times larger.

  • For the moment I am thinking of writing a roadtest application for using the board for image processing in medical applications.

  • in reply to yosoufe

    Is reVISION part of the SDSoC Development Environment?