The RFSoC product family’s breakthrough integration translates to lower power, a smaller footprint, and ease and flexibility of programming. By integrating everything onto one chip, the RFSoC family provides key benefits for applications that require fast computing at a lower cost.
Lower Power Consumption
Power-hungry FPGA-to-Analog interfaces like JESD204 increase the energy and time it takes to move data from converters to programmable logic. The RFSoC portfolio eliminates JESD204 and the need for discrete converters, resulting in a power reduction of up to 50% (compared to separate implementations).
Smaller Physical Footprint
Most RFSoC family products include an RF data converter subsystem, which contains multiple ADCs and DACs. Integrating the converters within the chip eliminates the need for discrete RF converters, providing a previously unattainable footprint for high-end projects.
Heterogeneous Computation
The RFSoC family features a quad-core Arm® Cortex®-A53 with a dual-core Arm Cortex-R5F processing system combined with Xilinx's UltraScale™ architecture programmable logic, which engineers can use to implement complete software-defined radio solutions.
Versatile Programmability
The RFSoC family features analog/digital programmability across the RF signal chain. This provides total access to analog, digital, and embedded design, simplifying calibration and synchronization along the signal chain.
Software-Defined Radio
The RFSoC platform utilizes an embedded software framework ideal for prototyping radio system designs. Designers can perform processing digitally, all on the same device, resulting in higher precision for deterministic operation.
LiDAR
New, emerging LiDAR technologies from ADAS to advanced 3D imaging applications require technology that meets future design needs. The RFSoC family’s integrated data converters combined with the flexibility of adaptable hardware provides designers the ability to scale with infinite potential.
Phased Array Radar
The RFSoC family includes single-chip TRX solutions ideal for scalable, multi-function, phased array radar. The solution enables low latency transmit-and-receive for lightning-fast response time in scenarios where early warnings are imperative.
Multi-Channel RF Instrumentation
Allowing for 8x8 to 16x16 channels on a single device provides unprecedented scalability for multi-channel RF instrumentation.
Test and Measurement
With direct RF-sampling, highly flexible, reconfigurable logic, and software programmability, the RFSoC product family allows designers to build high-speed multi-function instrumentation for signal generation.
Aerospace and Defense
Leveraging highly integrated RF-DAC/ADC and programmable logic, the RFSoC’s Arm®-based processing system allows designers to build complex modems with high bandwidth connectivity to communicate from ground to air with exceptional reliability.
Automotive (RADAR)
When using the RFSoC product family, designers get more than a flexible RF solution; it's like designing with a complete radar on a chip. Integrated ADC/DAC and programmable logic can be used to develop next generation 4D imaging radar solutions for self-driving vehicles.
Medical (Imaging)
The RFSoC product family’s integrated data converters and adaptable hardware provides flexibility for advanced 3D medical imaging applications.
Xilinx and Avnet Silica offer a suite of evaluation, characterization, and development kits for chip-down design. Xilinx technology allows customers to scale across the product family. Customers can freely evaluate with one board and choose to design with another part of the RFSoC family.
