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The Zynq® UltraScale+™ RFSoC ZCU208 Evaluation Kit is an ideal RF test platform for out-of-the-box evaluation and cutting-edge application development. The kit includes the UltraScale+ RFSoC ZU48DR, which integrates eight 14-bit 5GSPS ADCs, eight 14-bit 10GSPS DACs, and eight Soft-Decision Forward Error Correction (SD-FEC) cores, designed for rapid bring-up of RF-class applications.

Product Description

The Zynq® UltraScale+™ RFSoC ZCU208 Evaluation Kit is an ideal RF test platform for out-of-the-box evaluation and cutting-edge application development. The kit includes the Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC ZU48DR, which integrates eight 14-bit 5GSPS ADCs, eight 14-bit 10GSPS* DACs, and eight Soft-Decision Forward Error Correction (SD-FEC) cores, designed for rapid bring-up of RF-class applications. By perfectly combining Arm® Cortex®-A53 and Cortex-R5 subsystems, programmable logic, and the highest signal processing bandwidth in a single Zynq UltraScale+ device, the ZCU208 Evaluation Kit is the most comprehensive RF analog-to-digital signal chain prototyping platform.

Target Applications:

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

Key Features

Industry's Only Adaptive Single-Chip Radio Platform

The Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC XCZU48DR-2FSVG1517E chip is provided on the ZCU208 evaluation board.
Integrates eight 5GSPS ADCs, eight 10GSPS* DACs, and eight SD-FEC design instances.
Lidless package for enhanced thermal performance.

*10GSPS is achieved using the ZU48DR SCD5184 chip.

Equipped with all board-level features required for design development

DDR4 Component – 4GB, 64-bit, 2666 MT/s, connected to Programmable Logic (PL)
DDR4 SODIMM — 4GB, 64-bit, 2400MT/s, connected to 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+ module assembly
8 User I/Os, Monochrome LEDs

Includes reference design mezzanine cards to reduce development time

CLK104 RF Clock Plug-in Card, displaying internal reference clock and external sampling clock.
XM650 N79 Band Loopback Plug-in Card provides out-of-the-box simple loopback and example reference layouts for transceivers.
XM655 Branch Plug-in Card allows for in-depth lab-based measurements, including Multi-Block Synchronization (MTS).

Development Board Specifications

RF Data Converters

| | | | :---------------- | :--- | | Number of 14-bit RF-ADCs | 8 | | Max Rate (GSPS) | 5 | | Number of 14-bit RF-DACs | 8 | | Max Rate (GSPS) | 10* | | SD-FEC | 8 |

Memory

| | | | :-------------- | :---------------- | | PS DDR4 | 4GB 64-bit SODIMM | | PL DDR4 | 8GB 64-bit Component | | Micro SD Card | 16 GB | | M.2 SATA Connector | ✓ | | QSPI | 2 |

Communication & Networking

| | | | :---------- | :--- | | USB (UART/JTAG) | 1 | | RJ-45 | 1 | | SFP28 | 4 | | USB 3.0 | 1 |

Display

| | | | :---------- | :--- | | DIP Switches | ✓ | | LEDs | ✓ | | Buttons | ✓ |

Expansion Connectors

| | | | :------------ | :--- | | FMC+ | 1 | | RFMC 2.0 | 2 |

Add-on Cards

| | | | :------ | :--- | | XM650 | 1 | | XM655 | 1 | | CLK104 | 1 |

Control & I/O

| | | | :-------------- | :--- | | I2C | ✓ | | PMBUS | ✓ | | JTAG PC4 Header | ✓ |

Boot Options

| | | | :---------- | :--- | | SD Boot | ✓ | | QSPI Boot | ✓ | | JTAG Boot | ✓ |

Power Consumption

| | | | :---------------- | :--- | | 12V Wall Adapter | ✓ | | ATX Power Supply Compatible | ✓ |

*10GSPS is achieved using the ZU48DR SCD5184 chip.