AMD Zynq™ UltraScale+™ ZCU208 RFSoC Evaluation Kit

The AMD Zynq™ UltraScale+™ ZCU208 RFSoC Evaluation Kit is the ideal RF test platform for both out-of-box evaluation and cutting-edge application development. This kit features a Zynq™ UltraScale+™ RFSoC ZU48DR, which integrates eight 14-bit 5 GSPS ADCs, eight 14-bit 10 GSPS DACs, and eight soft-decision forward error correction (SD-FEC) cores designed to jumpstart RF class applications. With Arm^® Cortex^®-A53 and Cortex^®-R5 subsystems and UltraScale+™ programmable logic, the ZCU208 evaluation kit is the most comprehensive RF Analog-to-Digital signal chain prototyping platform.

Key features

• Industry’s only single-chip adaptable radio platform
• Comes equipped with all board-level features needed for design development
• Includes reference design mezzanine cards to reduce development time
• Integrated 8x 5GSPS ADC, 8x 10GSPS DAC

Additional features

• Zynq™ UltraScale+™ RFSoC XCZU48DR-2FSVG1517E silicon featured on the ZCU208 Evaluation board
• Integrated 8x 5GSPS ADC, 8x 10GSPS DAC, 8x SD-FEC design example
• Lidless package for improved thermal dissipation
• DDR4 Component – 4GB, 64-bit, 2666MT/s, attached to programmable logic (PL)
• DDR4 SODIMM – 4GB 64-bit, 2400MT/s, attached to the processing subsystem (PS)
• FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC+) interface for I/O expansion, including 12x 33Gb/s GTY transceivers and 34 user-defined differential I/O signals
• Quad zSFP/zSFP+ cage assembly
• 8 user-I/O, single-color LEDs
• CLK104 RF clock add-on card, showcasing internal reference clocking and external sampling clocking
• XM650 N79 band loopback add-on card allows simple out-of-box loopback and example reference layout for baluns
• XM655 breakout add-on card allows in-depth lab-based measurements including multi-tile synchronization (MTS)

Applications

• Remote PHY for Cable Access
• Early Warning Phased Array Radar / Digital Array Radar
• Satellite Communications
• 5G Wireless
• Test & Measurement
• All High Performance RF Applications