Avnet Adds Programmable Logic Alternative to 96Boards Community with New Ultra96 Development Board
March 19 2018 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
Avnet (NYSE: AVT), a leading global technology distributor,
today announced the new Ultra96™ development board. Avnet’s Ultra96
board adds a wide range of potential peripherals and programmable
logic acceleration engines not previously available on the 96Boards
platform. Avnet will be previewing and accepting pre-orders for the
new board at the Linaro Connect Conference, March 19-23, Regal
Airport Hotel in Hong Kong.
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Avnet's new Ultra96 Board brings
programmable logic functionality to popular 96Boards Consumer
Specification. (Photo: Business Wire)
Avnet’s Ultra96 board, built around the Xilinx® Zynq®
UltraScale+™ MPSoC, is compatible with the 96Boards Consumer
Edition specification from Linaro, a not-for-profit engineering
organization dedicated to developing open source software for the
Arm® architecture. Designed to accelerate the delivery of low-cost
hardware with the latest SoC technology, 96Boards provides a
standard board layout for SoC-agnostic development platforms that
can be used for applications including desktop and laptop
computing, the digital home, digital signage, point of sale (POS),
high-end audio, robotics and drones, artificial intelligence,
virtual reality, IoT and industrial control.
“The Ultra96 board is a great example of how the 96Boards
initiative, and its supporting development community, can make
leading-edge technology available to a broad market customer base
in a way that has not been previously possible,” said Bryan
Fletcher, technical marketing director, Avnet. “By bringing
programmable logic functionality to this specification, we have
opened up a wealth of new high-performance and high-bandwidth
development options to the 96Boards community of Arm experts and
enthusiasts.”
Using programmable logic to accelerate the development of deep
learning and AI algorithms is a key trend, but one that has largely
been focused on data center installations, noted Yang Zhang,
96Boards Director. “The Ultra96 makes the power of programmable
logic accessible for all types of engineers and is a great example
of how 96Boards can make the latest technology accessible for
all.”
“The Ultra96 board provides engineers a platform for software
development and hardware acceleration of machine learning
algorithms,” said Sumit Shah, director of SoC product marketing at
Xilinx. “The Ultra96 is designed so software engineers can
immediately begin Linux application development. Using the Xilinx
Vivado Design Suite and SDSoC Development Environment, they can
accelerate algorithms in programmable logic, achieving orders of
magnitude performance improvements over processor-only
implementations. The Ultra96 board is an excellent low-cost
platform for software developers to take advantage of the benefits
of hardware acceleration.”
Technical Specifications:
The Ultra96 board boots from the included Delkin Devices
Industrial 16 GB MicroSD card, which is pre-loaded with PetaLinux.
Designers can connect to Ultra96 through a web server using the
integrated wireless access point capability or via the provided
PetaLinux desktop environment, viewable on the integrated Mini
DisplayPort video output. Multiple application examples and
on-board development options are provided for reference.
Among the interfaces available on Ultra96 are: LPDDR4 memory,
802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.2 classic and Low Energy (BLE), USB
3.0 upstream and downstream, UARTs, JTAG and I2C. Engineers may
also interact with the board through the 96Boards-compatible,
low-speed and high-speed expansion connectors by adding peripheral
accessories.
Shipments of the $249-priced boards are expected in May 2018.
For more information and to pre-order, visit www.ultra96.org.
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