Survey on developing data acquisition system using ZYNQ architecture

Design of Data Acquisition (DAQ) system is always remains topic of research and development for custom requirements from the environments. This paper represents exploratory analysis of the various system components and their performance parameters. The baseline performance parameters are power requirement, computing capabilities, interface data rates, miniaturization requirements and others. Based on the baseline performance requirements of DAQ system, major system components are quantified and proposed design has adopted Xilinx Zynq 7000 based System on Chip (SoC) which consists of dual-Cortex A9 CPU and an Artix-7 family Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA). At the end of paper, the design of compact instrument based on Zynq7000 SoC is finalized, which satisfies the functional needs and specifications of data acquisition, storage, processing and communication for high speed data acquisition system in a compact package.