Enea has announced embedded Linux support for Xilinx’s Zynq-7000 series of programmable SoCs (system-on-chips). The Zynq-7000 SoCs integrate dual ARM Cortex-A9 processor cores, up to 350k programmable logic cells, and a host of I/O interface controllers.

The Xilinx Zynq-7000 series programmable SoCs support CPU clock rates of up to 1GHz. Depending on version, they also include the following programmable logic functions:

• Up to 350k logic cells (up to approx. 5.2M of equivalent ASIC gates)
• Up to 2180KB of Extensible Block RAM
• 80 to 900 18×25 DSP Slices (58 to 1080 GMACS peak DSP performance)

The Zynq-7000 SoCs also offer these built-in controller functions (depending on version):

• DDR3, DDR2, LPDDR2 DRAM interface
• 2x QSPI, NAND flash, NOR flash interfaces
• 2x USB2.0 (OTG) ports
• 2x gigabit Ethernet
• CAN interface
• 2x SD/SDIO card interfaces
• Serial: 2x UARTs, 2x SPI, 2x I2C
• 4x 32-line GPIO ports
• 2x 12-bit A-to-D with 1Msps sampling and 17 differential inputs.
• PCI Express x8 bus interface (in largest devices)
• Built-in encryption engine for secure system boot and configuration.

The Zynq-7000 series block diagram appears below.

Zilinx Zynq-7000 family block diagram
(click to enlarge)

Enea’s embedded Linux OS is a cross-development tool chain and runtime environment, based on the Yocto embedded Linux configuration system. The Yocto Project, founded by the Linux Foundation, is a popular tool for creating embedded Linux distributions. Enea’s embedded Linux implementation includes real-time extensions.

Further information on Enea Linux is available here. Further information on the Yocto Project is here.