Equipped with the industry’s only single-chip adaptable radio platform, the Zynq® UltraScale+™ RFSoC ZCU216 Evaluation Kit is the ideal platform for both rapid prototyping and high-performance RF application development. Featuring the Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC Gen 3 ZU49DR, the ZCU216 evaluation kit supports direct RF sampling of sub-6GHz bands utilizing 16T16R high speed RF-DACs and RF-ADCs.
In addition to the excellent RF converter technology in the ZCU49DR device, the ZCU216 kit provides add-on cards, a wide range of connectivity options, and comprehensive development tools and IPs to help users to develop cutting-edge RF designs such as:
- 5G sub-6GHz massive-MIMO radio
- 5G mmWave intermediate frequency (IF) transceiver
- Fixed wireless access
- Digital phased array radar
- Terrestrial satellite communications
- Spectrum analyzers
- High-speed RF testers
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Reference Design and Add-on Cards for Fast Evaluation and Prototyping
- Integrated RF design examples
- XM650 16T16R N79 band loopback add-on card for quick loopback test
- XM655 16T16R breakout add-on card for in-depth performance measurements
- CLK104 RF clock add-on card for internal (up to 1.2GHz) and external (up to 10GHz) reference clocking
Essential On-Board Features for Broad Application Development
- DDR4 DIMM – 4GB, 64-bit, 2,666MT/s, attached to programmable logic (PL)
- DDR4 SODIMM – 4GB, 64-bit, 2,400MT/s, attached to the processing system (PS)
- I/O expansion options – FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC+) interfaces, RFMC 2.0 interfaces, and Pmod connections
- High-speed I/Os – 2×2 SFP28 interfaces to support up to 4 SFP/SFP+/zSFP+/SFP28 modules