Xilinx ZU48DR | Demoboard ZCU208

Description

The ZCU208 is an evaluation board featuring the ZU48DR Zynq® UltraScale+™ RFSoC Gen 3 device. This board enables the evaluation of applications requiring sub-6 GHz bands for radio, mmWave, and full L-band and S-Band in phased array radar. The ZCU208 board is equipped withall the common board-level features needed for design development, such as DDR4 memory,networking interfaces, an FMC+ expansion port, as well as access to the RFMC 2.0 interface.

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)

Typical applications

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

More information

• Datasheet
• IC product information