Xilinx to early-ship 7nm ACAP to key customers
Published2019.06.19 14:19| Hardware and software levels modifiable according to workloads
| Equipped with flexible NoC delivering multi-terabit-per-second performance
Xilinx announced on the 19th that it will early-ship 'Versal AI Core Series' and 'Versal Prime Series' devices to customers participating in its early access program.
Xilinx early-supplies Versal Series to major customers
Versal is an Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP) that surpasses the performance of conventional CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs.
ACAP is a highly integrated, multicore, heterogeneous computing platform capable of dynamically adjusting to requirements of various applications and workloads in data center, automotive, 5G wireless and wireline, and defense markets by modifying both hardware and software levels.
The Versal ACAP architecture, fundamentally implemented to be software-programmable, features a flexible Network-on-Chip (NoC) with multi-terabit-per-second performance.
This NoC integrates all engines and major interfaces, enabling its use as a boot platform and making it easy for software developers, data scientists, and hardware developers to program.
ACAP, which supports diverse tools, libraries, IP, middleware, and frameworks, enables implementation of dynamically customizable accelerated computing platforms through industry-standard design flows.
Xilinx CEO Victor Peng commented, "We received the first Versal ACAP silicon from TSMC ahead of schedule and are now shipping to early access customers. Investments in software and hardware over many years and 35 years of architecture research have reached their culmination," adding, "Versal ACAP will be a pivotal point of important technological innovation and will open a new era of heterogeneous computing acceleration for all applications and developers."
The Versal ACAP portfolio, developed using TSMC's 7nm process technology, is the first platform combining software programming capability with dynamically configurable domain-specific hardware acceleration performance, enabling response to rapidly evolving innovations.
The new solution features a next-generation scalar engine for embedded computing, an adaptive engine for FPGA silicon programmability, and an intelligent engine for AI inference and advanced signal processing, delivering improved performance per watt and baseline performance compared to CPU and GPU implementations.
Versal AI Core Series
The Versal AI Core Series provides the highest computing performance and lowest latency in the portfolio, enabling innovative AI inference performance and throughput through AI engines.
Optimized for cloud, networking, and autonomous technologies, it delivers high AI acceleration and workload acceleration performance.
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Versal Prime Series
The Versal Prime Series is designed to support diverse applications across multiple markets, optimized for connectivity and inline acceleration for various types of workloads.
Both the Versal AI Core Series and Versal Prime Series are composed of multiple devices, each featuring dual-core Arm Cortex-A72 application processors, dual-core Arm Cortex-R5F real-time processors, adaptive hardware with over 2 million logic cells, and more than 3,000 DSP engines optimized for high-precision floating-point and low latency.
Additionally, Versal AI Core devices provide up to 400 AI engines optimized for AI inference and advanced signal processing workloads.
The Versal portfolio includes four additional device series, each designed with a unique architecture to provide scalability and AI inference capabilities to host applications across diverse markets from cloud and networking to wireless communications, edge computing, and endpoints.
The Versal AI Core and Versal Prime Series will be available to the general market in the second half of 2019.
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