SoC Variant Support - 2021.2 English

PetaLinux Tools Documentation: Reference Guide

Document ID
UG1144
Release Date
2021-10-27
Version
2021.2 English

Xilinx® delivers multiple devices for each SoC product. Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC is shipped in three device variants. For more information see here. Zynq-7000 devices are shipped in two variants. For more information, see here.

SOC_VARIANT extends overrides with ${SOC_FAMILY}${SOC_VARIANT}. It further extends overrides with components on the SoC (for example, Mali™ , VCU). This makes reusing the component overrides depending on the SoC. This feature is mainly used to switch to hardware acceleration automatically if the hardware design has the corresponding IP (VCU or USP). Xilinx distributes SoCs with multiple variants as shown below.

  1. Zynq-7000 devices are distributed under Zynq7000zs and Zynq7000z. The available SOC_VARIANTs are:
    • "7zs" - Zynq-7000 Single A9 Core

      "7z" - Zynq-7000 Dual A9 Core

    • Default SOC_VARIANT for Zynq-7000 devices is "7z". For 7000zs devices, add the SOC_VARIANT = "7zs" in petalinuxbsp.conf

    There are no additional overrides for Zynq-7000 devices.

  2. Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC is shipped in three device variants. The available SOC_VARIANTs are:
    • "cg" - Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC CG Devices
    • "eg" - Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC EG Devices
    • "ev" - Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC EV Devices
    • "dr" - Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC RFSoC devices

    The default value is "eg". PetaLinux automatically assigns "ev" and "dr" based on the presence of IP in the XSA.

  3. Versal ACAP is shipped only in one design variant currently. The SOC_VARIANT is s80.
Note: You have to explicitly set SOC_VARIANT = "cg" in petalinuxbsp.conf for "CG" devices.