Zeus Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC SoM for Defence and Aerospace Applications

Posted by Laura B
April 06, 2023

As REFLEX CES' exclusive UK partner we have had the exciting job of introducing the Zeus Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC System-on-Module to the UK market.
 

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Small but Perfectly Formed

With its small size (107mm x 85mm) and targeted feature set, the Zeus Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC SoM assures quality and reliability for all of your projects. Zeus has been designed to support lower system power architecture and offers an easy development path for engineers, specifically for Military and Defense purposes. The target applications include high precision measurement, artificial intelligence, radar systems, software defined radio, but can also be customized to individual customer requirements.

The Zeus SoM offers a PCIe Gen2 x4 Root Complex, a PCIe Gen3 x16 End Point, and a Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A53. With a total of 304 SE IOs (96 LVDS), 16 GTY @25.78Gbps (Top side), 32 GTH @12.5Gbps (Bot side) and 3x DDR4 banks (16GByte Total) and fitting in the palm of your hand (107mm x 85mm) the module is compact, flexible and powerful.

Unboxing Video: Zeus Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC SoM
 

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Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC

The Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC family is based on the Xilinx® UltraScale™ MPSoC architecture. This family of products integrates a 64-bit quad-core and dual-core Arm Cortex-R5 based processing system (PS) and Xilinx programmable logic (PL) UltraScale architecture in a single device.

Initially based solely on the Xilinx® ZU11EG Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC FPGA, a new version of the Zeus takes full advantage of the additional benefits provided by the Xilinx® ZU19EG Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC FPGA. The ZU19EG FPGA offers 1.1MLC programmable logic; this is twice as much the ZU11 version which provides 650KLC. The additional logic gates allow users to run more complex and powerful algorithms and calculations, making it ideal for compute-intensive applications like radar, software defined radio and high precision measurements.
 

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Supporting Tech

The Zynq Ultrascale+ MPsoC FPGA has been chosen for its unmatched performance, as well as its lower system power architecture. A carrier board has been designed to be complementary to the Zeus. It supports Dual FMC+ connectors, a variety of PS Interfaces including 1x GbE 28x MIO and M.2 NVMe AND on-board E2PROMS (BMC I2C, PS I2C).

REFLEX CES has based their development around this FPGA, including numerous essential components for an embedded board: DDR4 memories, connectors, BMC, etc, and a customised software environment.