The company Alén Space, part of the GMV group and a member of the Conexión Teleco initiative, is funding 6 PYNQ Z2 development boards for the School of Telecommunication Engineering (EET).
The PYNQ Z2 development boards are platforms marketed by AMD to support the design of embedded systems (System on Chip – SoC). They are based on a device from the Zynq-7000 SoC family, which combines, in a single integrated circuit, an ARM Cortex-A9 microcontroller and an FPGA with thousands of reconfigurable logic cells. The goal of this hardware/software architecture is to achieve digital systems with very high performance in terms of operating frequency and throughput, while reducing power consumption and size.
In addition, the PYNQ Z2 includes software support that enables high-level design using the Python language and libraries, and it is designed to facilitate connectivity with other widely used development systems such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi. All of this makes it a very attractive resource for developing applications in the fields of telecommunications, signal processing, AI, edge computing, and robotics.
A training session on the use of this equipment is scheduled to be held at the EET in the upcoming academic year.