Digilent Zybo Z7-10 – SoC Development Board

• ZYBO Z7 Zynq-7010 ARM/FPGA SoC Platform
• 667 MHz dual-core Cortex-A9 processor
• DDR3L memory controller with 8 DMA channels and 4 High Performance AXI3 Slave ports
• High-bandwidth peripheral controllers: 1G Ethernet, USB 2.0, SDIO

The Zybo Z7 is a feature-rich, ready-to-use embedded software and digital circuit development board built around the Xilinx Zynq-7000 family. This is the second generation update to the popular Zybo that was released in 2012. The Zynq family is based on the Xilinx All Programmable System-on-Chip (AP SoC) architecture, which tightly integrates a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor with Xilinx 7-series Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) logic. The Zybo Z7 surrounds the Zynq with a rich set of multimedia and connectivity peripherals to create a formidable single-board computer, even before considering the flexibility and power added by the FPGA. The Zybo Z7’s video-capable feature set, including a MIPI CSI-2 compatible Pcam connector, HDMI input, HDMI output, and high DDR3L bandwidth, was chosen to make it an affordable solution for the high end embedded vision applications that Xilinx FPGAs are popular for. Attaching additional hardware is made easy by the Zybo Z7’s Pmod connectors, allowing access to Digilent’s catalog of over 70 Pmod peripheral boards, including motor controllers, sensors, displays, and more.

The Zybo Z7 can be purchased with either a Zynq-7010 or Zynq-7020 loaded. These two Zybo Z7 product variants are referred to as the Zybo Z7-10 and Zybo Z7-20, respectively. When Digilent documentation describes functionality that is common to both of these variants, they are referred to collectively as the “Zybo Z7”. When describing something that is only common to a specific variant, the variant will be explicitly called out by its name.

The primary difference between the two variants is the size of the FPGA inside the Zynq AP SoC. The Zynq processors both have the same capabilities, but the -20 has about a 3 times larger internal FPGA than the -10. Also, The Zynq-7010 has slightly fewer FPGA attached pins than the Zynq-7020, which means several features found on the Zybo Z7-20 are not available on the Zybo Z7-10.

See Specifications for differences between the two variants.