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MicroZed™ is a low-cost development board based on the Xilinx Zynq®-7000 All Programmable SoC. Its unique design allows it to be used as both a stand-alone evaluation board for basic SoC experimentation, or combined with a carrier card as an embeddable system-on-module (SOM). MicroZed contains two I/O headers that provide connection to two I/O banks on the programmable logic (PL) side of the Zynq®-7000 All Programmable SoC device. In stand-alone mode, these 100 PL I/O are inactive. When plugged into a carrier card, the I/O are accessible in a manner defined by the carrier card design.

Note: There is nothing which makes the Zynq specifically suited for high bandwidth or camera applications etc. What makes it special is the combination of a microcontroller (hardened arm cores) and FPGA fabric. For us, the main reason to go with the Zynq was the availability of the MicroZed for a reasonable price.

If we would have built our own 'MicroZed' equivalent (which we'll probably do one day) it probably wouldn't use a Zynq.

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1 Documentation, Schematics, BOM, etc.

http://zedboard.org/support/documentation/1519

Datasheet

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2 Cooling

Custom CNC milled heatsink: https://github.com/apertus-open-source-cinema/beta-hardware/tree/master/Microzed-Heatsink

Fonsoning FSY31S05M 30x30x10mm 5V 0.12A fan

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