Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform

World’s First Extensible Processing Platform – Now Shipping

The Zynq™-7000 family is the world’s first Extensible Processing Platform (EPP). This innovative class of product combines an industry-standard ARM® dual-core Cortex™-A9 MPCore™ processing system with Xilinx 28nm unified programmable logic architecture. This processor-centric architecture delivers a complete embedded processing platform that offers developers ASIC levels of performance and power consumption, the flexibility of an FPGA and the ease of programmability of a microprocessor.

The four devices of the Zynq-7000 EPP family allow designers to target cost sensitive as well as high-performance applications from a single platform using industry-standard tools. The tight integration of the processing system with programmable logic allows designers to build accelerators and peripherals to speed key functions by up to 10x. ARM architecture and ecosystem maximizes productivity and eases development for software and hardware developers.

Designers have access to a number of different tools to start designing with the Zynq-7000 EPP:

• ISE® Design Suite: Embedded Edition enables hardware teams to customize the programmable logic of the Zynq-7000 EPP device. Please contact your Xilinx sales representative for more details on our Early Access program.
• The Zynq-7000 EPP Virtual Platform provides software developers with the tools necessary to immediately begin OS, driver and application development.
• Software teams can start application development using commercial Linux available through our ecosystem or Open Source Linux for Zynq-7000 EPP.

Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform Block Diagram and Product Features

Unlike ASICs and ASSPs, which do not offer needed flexibility and scalability, Zynq-7000 devices allow designers to modify their design throughout the development phase and after the system is in production. In addition, the Zynq-7000 EPP family, with over 3000 interconnections between its processing system and the programmable logic, offers levels of performance that two-chip solutions (ASSP+FPGA) cannot match due to limited IO bandwidth and limited power budgets.

Zynq-7000 Family Enables Highly Differentiated Applications to Market

While each device in the Zynq-7000 EPP family contains the same ARM dual-core Cortex-A9 MPCore based processing system, programmable logic and I/O resources vary between devices and serve a wide range of applications.

Zynq-7000 Devices in Key Applications

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Automotive

• Driver Assistance - Video processing and analytics requirements for driver assistance systems

Broadcast

• Broadcast Camera - High bit-rate bandwidth for high-accuracy video processing and analytics

Industrial

• Industrial Motor Control- Performance and flexibility for high-processing demands and tight integration requirements

See What Others are Saying

"For more than 10 years we have been discussing exactly this symbiosis possibility of processor and FPGA on one die to reduce cost and PCB space. Over time several companies have tried such an approach, but none of them offered a tight integration that allowed us to meet our targets. Finally, our long time wish becomes reality with the Xilinx Zynq-7000 family. This means Agilent can now create many different product variants on a common code base from low-end, mid-range, to high-end, with minimal cost and engineering overhead."

- Ralf Schäffer, project lead at Agilent Life Science Group, Agilent Technologies