BACKGROUND:
I have a tremendous amount of electronics and embedded processing experience, but am new to Zynq. I'm also fairly new to Xilinx FPGAs in general, having only done some microblaze work on a Spartan-6. I want to start down the road of developing a new family of products, and I believe I want to base them on the Zynq.
QUESTION:
The Zynq appears to have 2 UARTs. I assume these can be used for RS-232. ("UART" means so many more things than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.) But what if I want to have 6 RS-232 UARTs? I could do this with the soft microblaze processor in the Spartan-6 I used. Can I create 4 more soft UARTs in the FPGA fabric, and "connect" them to one or both of the hard ARM cores in the Zynq? The caption under figure 1 at http://electronicdesign.com/fpgas/understanding-fpga-processor-interconnects seems to say so. Can someone please confirm the truth of this?
In general, then, can I create all number of different soft peripherals and add them to the hard ARM core(s)?
