Xilinx, its ACAP 'Versal AI Core' and
While shipping mass-produced 'Versal Prime'
'Versal Premium' Early Access Offered


Xilinx announced on the 29th that it is shipping mass-produced products for the 'Versal™ AI Core' and 'Versal Prime' series. 'Versal Premium' was also shipped to several leading customers through an early access program.

Versal is an Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP). By combining scalar processing engines, adaptive hardware engines, and intelligent engines with advanced memory and interface technologies, it provides powerful heterogeneous acceleration performance for all applications that goes beyond FPGA capabilities.

The Xilinx Versal AI Core Series delivers the highest computing performance and lowest latency in the Versal portfolio. It supports superior AI inference throughput and performance through its AI engine. Versal AI Core is optimized for machine learning and advanced signal processing, as well as for computing-intensive applications, particularly in data centers, 5G wireless, and A&D markets.

Customers can accelerate workloads such as 5G gNodeB base stations, satellite-based broadband services, and audio-video bridging for 3D immersive stadium sports videos with AI Core.

The Versal Prime Series is designed to instantly accelerate a diverse set of workloads and optimize connectivity. Currently, customers are using the Versal Prime Series for data center workloads such as storage acceleration, firewalls and other wired communications applications, and satellite-based broadband services for the aerospace and defense industries.

Featuring highly integrated, power-optimized cores, the Versal Premium Series supports the massive bandwidth, security, and computing density required for next-generation enterprise and cloud deployments. It provides 112Gbps PAM4 transceivers, 600G Ethernet cores, 400G encryption engines, and PCIe® Gen5 connectivity. Additionally, it supports a wide range of high-performance applications, including wired transport networking, data center computing, and virtual firewalls.