🔎 Avnet ZUBoard 1CG: Unbox & Get Started // Tech Highlight

Avnet's ZUBoard 1CG, featuring the AMD ZU1CG, is an approachable board for exploring the AMD Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC architecture. A low-cost entry point for the FPGA-curious, the board sports 81K programmable logic cells – plus onboard temperature and pressure sensors, programmable RGB LEDs and user inputs, onboard JTAG and UART debug interfaces, three Samtec connectors with tons of GPIO, and a mikroBUS socket for solderless expansion modules.

We unbox the board and walk through the getting started process, which includes using a browser-based GUI to communicate with the built-in sensors and LEDs over serial.

While providing an easy access point for exploring FPGAs, this system is well-suited for prototyping advanced driver-assistance systems, autonomous robots, predictive maintenance, room monitoring with sensor fusion, and medical imaging.

Links:
// Official product page: https://www.avnet.com/wps/portal/us/products/avnet-boards/avnet-board-families/zuboard-1cg
// Buy it now: https://www.avnet.com/shop/us/products/avnet-engineering-services/aes-zub-1cg-dk-g-3074457345648900673
// Zynq™ UltraScale+™ MPSoC: https://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices/soc/zynq-ultrascale-mpsoc.html
// ZUBoard 1CG tutorials on Hackster.io: https://www.hackster.io/avnet/products/zuboard-1cg
// Video – Avnet Demonstration of Low-cost, High Performance Machine Vision Using AMD’s Zynq® UltraScale+™: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIBFDeB3e38
// MikroElektronika Click boards: https://www.mikroe.com/click-boards
// More on multiplexed I/O: https://docs.xilinx.com/r/en-US/ug1085-zynq-ultrascale-trm/MIO-and-EMIO
// More on PS-GTR transceiver interfaces: https://docs.xilinx.com/r/en-US/ug583-ultrascale-pcb-design/PS-GTR-Transceiver-Interfaces