Avnet Introduces Ultra96-V2 Development Board

Updated board includes new features for industrial applications and wider market reach

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PHOENIX - Media OutReach - 3 April 2019 - Just one year after
introducing its successful Ultra96 development board, Avnet (Nasdaq: AVT), a
leading global technology solutions provider, has released the new Ultra96-V2 to
power industrial-grade Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things
(IoT) applications. Complete with an updated radio module that enables
engineers to extend their reach into new markets, Avnet’s Ultra96-V2 is an
ideal platform for smart home, automotive, industrial controls and many other
applications.

 

“The Ultra96-V2 board offers
engineers and makers a very price competitive development platform for rapidly
prototyping the next breakthroughs in AI, IoT, robotics and beyond,” said Bryan
Fletcher, technical marketing director, Avnet. “Avnet is proud to support the
96Boards initiative by bringing new performance, additional power-savings, and
programmable logic advances to this community of Arm experts and enthusiasts.”

 

The Ultra96-V2 enhances the capabilities
of the 96Boards community with a range of peripherals and acceleration engines
in the programmable logic not available from other offerings. Like its
predecessor, the Ultra96-V2 is an Arm-based, Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+™ MPSoC
development board built on the Linaro 96Boards Consumer Edition (CE)
specification. The 96Boards are open source development platforms that can be
used by system software developers for software applications, hardware devices
and kernel programming for operating systems.

 

Engineers can now extend the market
reach of their innovations globally with the Ultra96-V2’s new feature — a Wi-Fi
/ Bluetooth radio module from Microchip that is Agency Certified in more than
75 countries. Wireless options include 802.11b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth 5 Low
Energy support.

 

Avnet also updated all components
on the Ultra96-V2 to allow industrial temperature grade options so that the
board can operate in harsh industrial applications. Additional power control
and monitoring is also possible with Infineon’s integrated power management ICs
(PMICS) designed for tight board space requirements.

 

“Ultra96-V2 allows the 96Boards
community members to explore programmable logic to accelerate software.
Software engineers’ C, C++, and OpenCL algorithms can be compiled into the FPGA
portion of the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC to achieve massive parallelism and really
high performance,” said Tomas Evensen, CTO of Embedded Software at Xilinx.

 

Technical Specifications

The Ultra96-V2 features include:

 

• Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC ZU3EG
  A484
• Micron
  2 GB (512M x32) LPDDR4 Memory
• Delkin
  16 GB microSD card + adapter
• PetaLinux
  environment available for download
• Microchip
  Wi-Fi / Bluetooth
• Mini
  DisplayPort (MiniDP or mDP)
• 1x
  USB 3.0 Type Micro-B upstream port
• 2x
  USB 3.0, 1x USB 2.0 Type A downstream ports
• 40-pin
  96Boards Low-speed expansion header
• 60-pin
  96Boards High-speed expansion header
• 85mm
  x 54mm form factor
• Linaro
  96Boards Consumer Edition compatible

The platform comes as a complete development kit including:

• Ultra96-V2
  development board
• 16 GB
  microSD card + adapter
• Voucher
  for SDSoC license from Xilinx
• Quick-start
  instruction card

 

The Ultra96-V2 development board
will be available in Asia from June for $249. For more information and how to
pre-order today, visit https://www.avnet.com/wps/portal/apac/products/product-highlights/ultra96-v2-board/.

Avnet’s new Ultra96-V2 is an ideal
platform to power industrial-grade AI and IoT applications for smart home,
automotive, industrial controls and many others.

 

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