# Zynq-7000

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**Category:** GNU Radio\
**Created:** [March 2, 2011, 2:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/zynq-7000/203930 "2011-03-02T02:28:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luislavena)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 2:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/zynq-7000/203930/1 "2011-03-02T02:28:43Z")

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Just saw that Xilinx has announced the Zynq-7000 family – chips that  
combine a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor and peripherals with  
programmable logic cells (i.e., FPGA fabric). Seems like this could  
make a pretty good base for an embedded gnuradio platform. Anyone  
looked at this yet?

Details at  
[http://www.xilinx.com/publications/prod\_mktg/zynq7000/Product-Brief.pdf](http://www.xilinx.com/publications/prod_mktg/zynq7000/Product-Brief.pdf)

/jordan

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**Author:** ![jordanh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@jordanh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jordanh)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 3:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/zynq-7000/203930/2 "2011-03-02T03:18:54Z")

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On 03/01/2011 08:27 PM, Jordan H. wrote:

> Just saw that Xilinx has announced the Zynq-7000 family – chips that  
> combine a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor and peripherals with  
> programmable logic cells (i.e., FPGA fabric). Seems like this could make  
> a pretty good base for an embedded gnuradio platform. Anyone looked at  
> this yet?
> 
> Details at  
> [http://www.xilinx.com/publications/prod\_mktg/zynq7000/Product-Brief.pdf](http://www.xilinx.com/publications/prod_mktg/zynq7000/Product-Brief.pdf)

Yes, this is an exciting product. Xilinx announced this last April  
during an Embedded Conference. They are slowly releasing technical  
details, but what I haven’t seen in the announcements is a solid time  
frame for getting silicon and dev boards ☹

Philip

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**Author:** ![jordanh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@jordanh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jordanh)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 10:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/zynq-7000/203930/3 "2011-03-02T10:10:12Z")

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I was speaking to my local Xilinx FAE in Australia today, he seems to  
think  
actual parts are something like 18 months out.