Xilinx announces addition to ACAP platform with Versal Premium – Electronics Weekly

Versal is an adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP), a heterogeneous compute device with capabilities that the firm claims far exceed those of conventional silicon architectures.

Added to the Premium series are 112Gbps pam4 transceivers, multi-hundred GBe and Interlaken connectivity, cryptography, and PCIe gen5 with built-in DMA, supporting both CCIX and CXL.

Developed on TSMCs 7nm process, Versal Premium combines vector and scalar processing elements, coupled to programmable logic and tied together with a network-on-chip (NoC) which provides memory-mapped access to all three processing element types.

The scalar engines are built from the dual-core Arm Cortex-A72, the adaptable engines are made up of programmable logic and memory cells and the intelligent engines are an array of very long instruction word (VLIW) and single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) processing engines and memories.

The device has over 120TB/s of on-chip memory bandwidth which, coupled with the customizable memory hierarchy, is designed to reduce data movement and remove key bottlenecks, while pre-engineered connectivity and cores allow integration into existing cloud infrastructure.

Versal Premium is designed for high bandwidth networks operating in thermally and spatially constrained environments, as well as for cloud providers. It delivers up to 9Tb/s of serial bandwidth and 5Tb/s of throughput with Ethernet, with flexibility to support various data rates and protocols, the firm says.

Its cryptography engines provide up to 1.6Tb/s of encrypted line rate throughput and support for AES-GCM-256/128, MACsec and IPsec.

The firm suggests the device will find applications in 5G communications, aerospace and defense, along with ADAS.

The Versal Premium series takes ACAPs to the next level delivering breakthrough networked hard IP integration enabling the development of single chip 400G and 800G solutions, says Kirk Saban, vice president of product and platform marketing at Xilinx.

Targeting next-generation networks and cloud deployments, Versal Premium delivers superior bandwidth and compute density in a scalable platform that is readily programmable by hardware and software developers alike for optimized acceleration and reduced TCO.

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