Sagheer Ahmad

A 16-nm Multiprocessing System-on-Chip Field-Programmable Gate Array Platform

This article presents the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC (multiprocessor system on chip), which builds on the Zynq-7000 family. Compared to the first-generation Zynq, MPSoC increases performance and power efficiency while significantly improving the integration level between the SoC and the field-programmable gate array (FPGA). It also further raises the programming abstraction with the introduction of a new heterogeneous system-wide compiler. At the hardware level, system-wide coherency and shared virtual memory bridge across the processor subsystem into the programmable logic array. The new SDSoC (software-designed SoC) environment combines the ARM compiler with a high-level synthesis technology-based FPGA compiler and a full-system optimizing compiler to target all elements of the heterogeneous SoC from a common program source.