Trenz System-on-Module (SOM)

If you have already decided that a compact, modular, readily integrated embedded processing system is the best choice for your application, be it robotics, high-speed imaging, or AI-enhanced machine vision, then select the right link below:

Versal - Adaptive Compute System-on-a-Chip
Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC - Multi-processor System-on-a-Chip with 4 ARM CPUs + FPGA Logic + DSP + Video Codec
Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoc - Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC with an Adaptable Radio Platform: 8 RFADCs, 8 RFDACs
Zynq 7000 System-on-a-Chip - Dual-Core ARM + FPGA Logic
Kintex UltraScale - Best Price/Performance/Watt
Kintex - Maximum DSP Compute Density
Artix - Mid-range DSP + FPGA Logic
Spartan - Cost Optimized
Intel SoM & FPGAs - SoMs and FPGAs from Intel
Design Services - Utilize expert engineering and get to market faster.

Benefits of using a System-On-Module (SOM)

There are several beneficial factors on using a SOM for your next design. SOMs have more IO and deterministic compute capabilities, reduce design cost and risk, reduce time to market, and are fully customizable.

Why use a Trenz SOM rather than a CPU?

CPUs are great at executing application software, but Trenz SOMs have more IO and deterministic compute capability to ensure all data is processed in real-time, every time, and without unpredictable delays caused by the operating system.

Trenz SOMs Reduce Design Cost

SOMs are the obvious solution for demanding applications where the alternative is to invest in designing a custom board that might take a team of PCB designers, electrical engineers, and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) programmers more than a year to complete. Such endeavors cost as much as $250,000 — and that's before adding in the expense of maintaining a supply chain staff and inventory.

Trenz SOMs Reduce Risk

Trenz Electronic has been designing and manufacturing FPGA SOMs for over 25 years with an in-house assembly that meets ISO 9001 quality standards. Reference FPGA boards are great because they enable quick access to working boards, but they are not designed to be embedded into rugged products with shock and vibration test validation. Sending unproven SOMs into the field is highly risky, so stick to experts with 25 years of expertise.

Trenz SOMs Speed Time to Market

Concurrent EDA combines a broad offering of SoMs from Trenz Electronic with FPGA customization expertise to offer a flexible resource for embedded processing solutions that fit a wide range of applications. Our offering of Trenz modules can also help reduce the risk, cost, and complexity of your product development and speed up your time to market.

Trenz SOMs Are Customizable

Using a SOM completes most of the complex PCB design and makes the rest of the system simpler and easier to customize in form and function. Want to customize the SOM too? No problem. All Trenz modules can be customized to include extra features or to cost-optimize certain components.

Which SOM is right for you?

You've come to the right place to ask that question. Concurrent EDA offers hundreds of Trenz Electronics modules that span a broad range of performance and cost/watt options, from legacy FPGAs to the most advanced AI System-on-a-Chip on the market today. Choose from a versatile mix of SOMs that embed a range of FPGAs, DRAM, IO, and Gigabit Ethernet interfaces — all on production-ready PCBs.

Listed below are highlights from the successive generation of SoMs available from Concurrent EDA, beginning with Versal Edge AI SOCs that deliver best-in-class computational power.

Versal™ System-on-a-Chip Versal SoCs are powered by dual ARM® CPUs, AI, digital signal processing (DSP) slices, and FPGA logic. That means the powerful modules in this series can accelerate processing operations from sensor readout to AI computations to real-time controls. The modules achieve this while supporting industrial functional safety and cybersecurity standards.
Zynq™ System-on-a-Chip The Zynq family of modules is distinguished by the two powerful processor technologies it leverages the UltraScale+ and 7000 lines of SoCs. The Zynq Multiprocessor System-on-a-Chip (MPSoC) modules combine 64-bit processor scalability and real-time control with software and hardware engines for processing graphics, video, waveforms, and network packets. MPSoCs all have a similar FPGA fabric combined but have three distinct variants of the processing systems (PS): CG devices: 2x ARM CPUs EG devices: 4x ARM CPUs and a GPU EV devices: 4x ARM CPUs, a GPU, and a real-time H.264/H.265 video codec The Zynq 7000 System-on-a-Chip modules integrate the software programmability of an ARM-based processor with the hardware programmability of an FPGA chip. These SoMs enable key analytics and hardware acceleration while integrating CPU, DSP, ASSP, and mixed signal functionality on a single device. With over 100 Zynq modules to choose from, the Zynq 7000 series includes single- and dual-core devices and, for the price, offers the best performance-per-watt ratio in a fully scalable SoC platform.
Kintex™ UltraScale™ Kintex Ultrascale FPGA modules provide the best price/performance/watt at 20nm and include the highest signal processing bandwidth in a mid-range device, next- generation transceivers, and low-cost packaging for an optimum blend of capability and cost-effectiveness. The family is ideal for packet processing in 100G networking and data center applications as well as DSP-intensive processing needed in next- generation medical imaging, 8k4k video, and heterogeneous wireless infrastructure.
Kintex™ 7 Series Kintex FPGA modules empower designers seeking both high performance and low energy consumption. With nearly 2,000 DSPs and 8 GTH transceivers, these devices are ready for computing and bandwidth-intensive applications. The Kintex family's support for mainstream standards, such as PCIe Gen3 and 10-Gigabit Ethernet, makes it ideal for applications such as 3G and 4G wireless, flat-panel displays, and video over IP.
Artix™ 7 Series Artix FPGA modules provide an optimal balance FPGA logic, DSP compute, hundreds of high-performance IO, high density IO, and up to 4 MGTs to fit a variety of applications. Many modules have on-module 100Mb/s Ethernet PHYs to enable networked applications.
Spartan™ 6 and 7 Series Spartan FPGA modules are optimized for cost, IO, and DRAM and contain a 10M/100M/1G Ethernet PHY to enable highly compact networked applications, such as industrial control, robotics, and automation.
Intel SoMs & FPGAs Intel SoMs are small, integrated single-board computers with Intel® MAX 10 or Cyclone® SoCs at the core. The SoC SoM includes usually DDR3 memory, flash memory, ethernet, power management, common interface controllers, and loads of I/O's to help you create a fully customized embedded design without starting from scratch.
System-on-a-Module Customization Though Concurrent's selection of SoMs and FPGAs almost certainly offers the right solution for your application, our in-house FPGA design expertise can help refine your options further. If you see something you like and want it customized, contact us and we will create the optimized module for your application.
FPGA Design Acceleration Services by an AMD Certified Elite Partner Concurrent is recognized by AMD as a Certified Elite Partner, demonstrating that we have the know-how for building custom off-the-shelf or customized embedded board systems using AMD components. For the past 18 years, we have specialized in converting software algorithms (C/C++, MATLAB) into high-performance FPGA designs. Our FPGA design team can accelerate your time-to-market by helping port your algorithm to any of our modules. Concurrent EDA is staffed by only formally trained Electrical/Computer Engineers (PhD, MS, BS) who are U.S. citizens, making us an ITAR-compliant partner for high-security applications.