Presentation & Fact Sheet: Zynq-7020 sbRIO General Purpose Inverter Controller (GPIC)

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National Instruments is thrilled to bring our power conversion equipment design teams the very latest embedded technologies including Linux, ARM, Zynq Reconfigurable System On-a-Chip (RSOC) and support for the popular Eclipse C/C++ development environment for Real-Time Linux. The new Zynq-7020 RSOC chipset is truly the ultimate architecture for power electronics control and delivers 69 times higher performance per dollar than traditional monolithic DSP based control chips. That means you can outperform your competition with the same control and I/O budget. In a survey of over 500 embedded design teams using NI tools, the average engineering development cost reduction compared to traditional full custom embedded design was 114 person-months-- enabling teams to complete 3 more projects per year. That is a savings of 9 person-years per design, or $950,000 in engineering cost savings per design at $100k/person fully burdened. What new revenue could you unlock with 3 additional embedded design projects per year and the same development budget?

Please find attached the factsheet for the new Zynq-7020 sbRIO General Purpose Inverter Controller (GPIC). The factsheet includes the following:

• Features and benefits
• Technical specifications
• Links to order hardware and development tools
• Links to open source IP cores, app examples and interface PCB templates
• Overview of the NI toolchain for power converter OEM design teams
• Information on FPGA IP cores and examples libraries and download links
• Typical hardware/software architecture
• Typical hardware configuration
• Links to user manuals, mechanical drawings and CAD files
• Information on the mini-scale control development system

Note that many of the images in the factsheet PDF include links to relevant online content.

The latest slide deck on adopting the NI embedded technology platform for industrial power conversion equipment design is also attached.

Order now! The GPIC industry evaluation, academic, and OEM bundle kits (call for pricing) are released and orderable.

For development tool download links and instructions, see the announcement titled "What tools do I need to get started developing power conversion equipment?" at the top of this ni.com/powerdev community site.

Please reply to this thread with any questions or comments about the new Zynq-7020 GPIC embedded control and I/O system!