$89 MiniZed Development Board based on Xilinx Zynq Z-7007S SoC Includes WiFi, Bluetooth, Arduino Headers

Avnet has unveiled MiniZed development board – part of ZedBoard family – powered by a Xilinx Zynq Z-7007s SoC with an ARM Cortex A9 processor and FPGA fabric,  supporting WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, and equipped with Arduino and PMOD headers.

MiniZed board (AES-MINIZED-7Z007-G) specifications:

  • SoC – Xilinx Zynq-7007S single ARM Cortex A9 processor up to 677 MHz + FPGA with 23K logic cells, 1.8 Mb block RAM, 60 DSP slices
  • System Memory – 512 MB DDR3L
  • Storage –  8 GB eMMC flash, 128 Mbit QSPI flash
  • Connectivity –  Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth 4.1 plus EDR and BLE  via Murata “Type 1DX” wireless module
  • USB – 1x USB 2.0 host port
  • Sensors – 3-axis accelerator and temperature sensor (LIS2DS12);  Digital Microphone (MP34DT05)
  • Expansion Interfaces:
    • 2x Pmod compatible connectors with 16x GPIOs
    • Arduino UNO R3 compatible header with 22x GPIOs
  • Debugging –  JTAG and serial console via micro USB port
  • Misc – 2x bi-element user LEDs, user & reset push buttons; user switch
  • Power Supply – 5V via micro USB port

The company provides bare-metal code samples, as well as Xilinux PetaLinux for the board. You’ll find hardware and software documentation, including BoM, schematics, and getting started guides on the documentation page.

 

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MiniZed is the cheapest Zedboard so far, which makes it ideal as a training, prototyping and proof-of-concept demo platform, and it can be used to showcase wireless designs using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, audio signal processing examples with the MIC input, as well as IoT & cloud demos using external and on-board sensors.

MiniZed can be purchased for $89 on Avnet with the company mentioning that the retail price may be higher in Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. You may find further info on Zedboard.org’s MiniZed page.

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Jeroen
6 years ago

Could be nice for 3D printing

Jeroen
6 years ago

Yes, the guys from smoothieware are creating a new version that uses an FPGA.

“A FPGA to handle step generation at insane rates and new features”

Fabry
Fabry
6 years ago

It is nice but for little more (130USD) there is Terasic DE 10 Nano kit with Altera Cyclone V at 800MHz plus 110K logic cells and 1GB Ram (HDMI Tx and GigaEth also present), which seems better.

If you are academic people (professor or student) the price is also better: 99USD

Drone
Drone
6 years ago

“MiniZed can be purchased for $89 on Avnet with the company mentioning that the retail price may be higher in Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.”

Avnet still shows $89 here in Jakarta, Indonesia. But the Avnet sales page says “More available in: 4 weeks”.

theguyuk
theguyuk
6 years ago

On the topic of FPGA I was just reading about

Microsemi launches Windows based RISC-V IDE

In a move that broadens support for the RISC-V core, Microsemi has launched SoftConsole version 5.1, said to be the first Windows based Eclipse IDE for such designs.

While the release supports the use of RISC-V soft CPUs in Microsemi’s PolarFire, RTG4, SmartFusion2 and IGLOO2 FPGA, there is also support for the HiFive1 Arduino kit from SiFive. .

Link. http://www.newelectronics.co.uk/electronics-news/microsemi-launches-windows-based-risc-v-ide/156462/

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