RFSoC 4x2 Kit
Xilinx’s Radio Frequency System-on-Chip (RFSoC) devices have created a new class of integrated circuit architecture for the communications and instrumentation markets. RFSoCs combine high-accuracy ADCs and DACs operating at Giga samples per second (Gsps), with programmable heterogeneous compute engines.
The RFSoC 4x2 kit is based on the Xilinx RFSoC Gen3 XCZU48DR. The RFSoC 4x2 is an enhanced version of the earlier RFSoC 2x2 which was based on a RFSoC Gen 1. The board is only available to academia and to buy the board, academics must first apply to the AMD Xilinx University Program to get pre-approval to purchase the RFSoC 4x2 kit. See the purchase tab for details. For enquiries please contact the Xilinx University Program. If you are looking for information related to the earlier board, see the RFSoC 2x2 webpages.
Board features:
- Academic price: $2,149
- RFSoC RFSoC 4x2 board with 4x 5GSPS ADC and 2x 9.85GSPS RF DAC channels
- PYNQ framework with Jupyter Lab for exceptional ease-of-use
- Open-source resources including teaching materials, notebooks, and design examples (see Educational resources)
- Complete end-to-end reference designs including spectrum analyzers and software defined radios (see Overlays)
- GitHub-hosted repositories of all project materials
- Online PYNQ community support forum
RFSoC 4x2 Board Key Features
| Feature | Description |
| FPGA |
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| I/O Interfaces |
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| Memory |
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| Switches and LEDs | Connected to the programmable logic IO
Connected to the processing system
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| Clock sources |
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| Expansion ports |
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| Power Monitoring |
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Zynq Ultrascale+ RFSoC XCZU48DR-1FFVG1517E features
- 64-bit Quad ARM® Cortex™-A53 MPCore™ and dual-core ARM Cortex-R5F with CoreSight™
- 32 KB Instruction, 32 KB Data per processor L1 Cache in APU
- 1 MB unified L2 Cache in APU
- 32 KB Instruction, 32 KB Data per processor L1 Cache and TCM in RPU
- 256 KB On-Chip Memory w/ECC
- UART, CAN 2.0B, I2C, SPI, 128b GPIO
- USB 2.0/3.0, Tri-mode Gigabit Ethernet, SD/SDIO 3.0 on-chip peripherals
- Display Port, SATA
- 930K system logic cells
- 60.5 Mb of fast on-chip RAM
- 4,272 DSP slices
- 16 33G Transceivers
- 8 14-bit 5 GSPS RF-ADC (4 of which are available on the RFSoC 4x2)
- 8 14-bit 9.85 GSPS RF-DAC (2 of which are available on the RFSoC 4x2)
- 32-bit and 64-bit bus width support for DDR4, DDR3, DDR3L, or LPDDR3 memories, and 32-bit bus width support for LPDDR4 memory
Vivado |
Vivado® ML is the Xilinx software suite for HDL and system-level design. Vivado includes a HDL simulator, IP Integrator for system-level integration, and tools for synthesis, implementation, bitstream generation and programming of Xilinx platforms. Vivado Standard edition is a device limited version of the full Vivado enterprise edition and is free-of-charge and does not require a separate license.Licenses for the Vivado Enterprise edition which includes support for all Xilinx devices are available to universities from the XUP donation program. You can select the free Vivado standard edition or the full Enterprise edition when you run the installer. Download the Vivado installer |
Vitis |
Vitis™ is the Xilinx design software for targeting Alveo acceleration cards. It also includes software development tools for Xilinx embedded devices including the Zynq families. Vitis includes Vitis HLS, a C-based High-Level-Synthesis design tool that can be used standalone or from within Vitis for creating hardware accelerated kernel. Vitis is free of charge and does not require a separate license. Download the Vitis installer |
Contact XUP if you have any questions about Xilinx software or to discuss your requirements.
Additional Information and Supporting Material
- Please visit the RFSoC PYNQ project webpage
How to purchase?
The board is currently only available to academic customers. For commercial enquiries, contact XUP.
In order to purchase the kit at the academic price, you will need to:
- Be a full-time member of staff at an accredited academic institution
- Enroll in the XUP Program if you have not done so yet
- Submit a request to purchase an RFSoC 4x2
Once the request is approved, you and Real Digital will be notified with directions to purchase the kit.