Platforms
The Trenz Electronic TE0726 is a Rasberry Pi compatible FPGA module integrating a Xilinx Zynq-7010, 512 MByte DDR3L SDRAM, 4 USB ports, an Ethernet port and 16 MByte Flash memory for configuration and operation.
For project ideas see the Hackaday ZynqBerry project page
For more information, please see the Trenz Zynqberry page
Selection of Partner boards
A range of XUP boards with academic discount are available from Digilent, including the Basys 3, Nexys 4 DDR, Zybo, and Zedboard.
Register with Digilent to apply for academic pricing.
Red Pitaya is an open-source-software measurement and control tool that consists of easy-to-use visual programming software and free of charge, ready-to-use open-source, web-based test and measurement instruments running on a powerful, credit card-sized board.
For more information, please see the Red Pitaya page
For more information, please see the Digilent page
Vivado, or the SDx development environment (SDSoC and SDAccel) can be used.
SDSoC is a software environment that automates the process of creating hardware accelerators, and the data movers and DMAs to transfer data through the system, generating your software application, and a Linux kernel or other OS.
SDSoC is a powerful tool for rapid prototyping and creation of Zynq Designs.
To request SDx, or any other Xilinx licenses, please apply via the Xilinx University Program donation webpage
Any series 7 Xilinx device or later can be used for the competition. Participants may apply to the Xilinx University Program for a donation of an XUP board. The donation request must be made by the project supervisor.
Please see the Xilinx University Program donation webpage
Teams can use any platform supported by the Vivado design suite.
The XUP FPGA boards are the Basys 3, the Nexys 4 DDR, and the Nexys Video.
The four XUP Zynq boards are Zybo, Zedboard and the PYNQ-Z1, PYNQ-Z2.
PYNQ is an open-source project from Xilinx that makes it easy to design embedded systems with Zynq.
Using the Python language and libraries, designers can exploit the benefits of Zynq to build more capable embedded systems.
For more on PYNQ see www.pynq.io
Amazon EC2 F1 is a compute instance with Xilinx Virtex Ultrascale+ devices that you can program to create custom hardware accelerators for your application.
Open Hardware entries running on an AWS EC2 F1 instance will be eligible for a special additional prize.
For more information, see the XUP AWS F1 page
PYNQ platforms
Open Hardware is run in partnership by the Xilinx University Program, the Europractice Software Service (STFC), and CNFM
Open Hardware 2019
TUL, based in Taiwan, make the PYNQ-Z2 a Z7020 based Zynq platform. The board includes 512 MB DDR3 memory, 2x Pmods, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi headers.
The PYNQ-Z2 is also supported by PYNQ.
For more information, please see the TUL PYNQ-Z2 page
The EMC²-Z7015 is a PCIe/104 OneBank™ SBC with a Xilinx Zynq SoC, Artix-7 FPGA fabric and a VITA57.1 FMC™ LPC I/O board.
The board includes high-speed I/O interfaces, like USB2.0, HDMI, 1Gb Ethernet and SATA.
For more information, please see the Sundance page
Compute Acceleration platforms
Xilinx introduced Alveo, a new line of acceleration boards that can be used locally for accelerating data processing workloads.
Recommended boards for the "Acceleration" category include the KCU1500, VCU1525 and the Alveo boards.
For more information see the Xilinx Alveo webpage
The ZCU104 is a Zynq Ultrascale+ board from Xilinx that is supported by PYNQ.
The board features a Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC XCZU7EV, 2 GB DDR4 Memory, HDMI, DisplayPort, USB 3.0, LPC FMC.
For more information, please see the Xilinx ZCU104 webpage
The Ultra96 from Avnet is a Zynq Ultrascale+ board that is also supported by PYNQ.
The board features a Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC ZU3EG, 2 GB DDR4 Memory, Wi-Fi / Bluetooth, Mini DisplayPort, USB 3.0.
For more information, please see the Avnet Ultra96 page
