Proficient Design Space Exploration of ZYNQ SoC using VIVADO Design Suite: Custom Design of High Performance AXI Interface for High speed data transfer between PL and DDR Memory using Hardware-Software Co-Design

摘要

In the recent era of Massive scale computing, the new trend of deploying application design in which, not only utilizing the software but also integrate and utilization of custom logic design on dedicated Hardware platform is gaining the focus. This design approach allows to fuse the features of software and hardware based systems in a single package. This paper discusses the design of High Speed Data Acquisition System (DAQ) based on Hardware-Software (HW-SW) Co-Design methodology and its experiments on ZYNQ-7000 SoC (System on Chip) based platform (Avnet ZED Board). This novel experimental setup incorporate the design and development of Custom VIVADO Design for ZYNQ-FPGA (Programmable Logic-PL) and move the data to the Onboard DDR3 Memory using AXI4(Advanced Extensible Interface Ver. 4). Detailed design and results are discussed in this paper.