AMD-Xilinx announced it has added Versal Premium with AI Engines to the Versal Premium series, providing high-performance signal processing for next-generation wireless and radar systems. Part of the 7nm Versal Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP) portfolio, Versal Premium with AI Engines is optimized to meet the demands of signal processing-intensive applications in the aerospace and defense (A&D) and test and measurement (T&M) markets. Versal Premium with AI Engines delivers a 4X increase in signal processing capacity and additional functionality, at reduced power and with a smaller footprint, compared to the prior generation 16nm Xilinx devices.
Versal Premium with AI Engines covers a wide range of functions in these markets, from A&D radar applications such as adaptive beamforming, to signal processing for RF machine learning applications like digital RF memory and direction finding. In the T&M market, it addresses the growing demand for wireless testers as part of the global 5G rollout, applications such as 5G protocol testers and production testers as well as semiconductor automated test equipment.
Start Your Engines: Versal Premium Series Adds AI Engines for “Revved-Up” Signal Processing
Next-generation radar and wireless systems demand high-performance signal processing and the ability to handle massive amounts of data moving in and out of compute devices. The new Versal Premium series with AI Engines is built for those requirements, optimized for signal processing-intensive applications in the aerospace and defense (A&D) and test and measurement (T&M) markets. Primary use-cases include radar applications, signals intelligence, wireless system testing and wireless device testing.
The Versal Premium series with AI Engines is part of the 7nm Versal adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP) portfolio including the existing Versal Premium series devices. The Versal Premium series with AI Engines delivers a 4X increase in signal processing capacity compared to the last-generation Virtex UltraScale+ VU13P FPGA. It also eliminates I/O bottlenecks with up to 9Tb/s serial bandwidth, and offers significantly reduced size, weight and power through heterogeneous, power-optimized integration of hardened, ASIC-like cores such as 100G/600G Ethernet cores, 400G High-Speed Crypto Engines, DDR memory controller, and integrated PCIe Gen5 blocks.
Versal Premium with AI Engines combines highly advanced signal processing from the proven Versal AI Core series, currently shipping to customers in production volumes, with the massive digital signal processing (DSP) compute capacity and serial bandwidth capacities of the existing Versal Premium series. By combining AI Engines with DSP Engines, users of Versal Premium with AI Engines devices can realize major performance gains compared to prior generation 16nm Xilinx devices and competing products on the market today.
Performance gains and additional functionality at reduced power and with a smaller footprint
By offering the heterogenous integration of both AI engines and DSP engines, A&D and T&M customers are able to assign the right compute engine for the right task, from A&D radar applications such as adaptive beamforming to signal processing for RF machine learning applications like digital RF memory and direction finding. In the T&M market, Versal Premium with AI Engines addresses the growing demand for wireless testing as part of the global 5G rollout for applications like 5G protocol and production testing, as well as semiconductor automated test equipment.
Moreover, the Versal Premium series with AI Engines deliver major performance gains and additional functionality at reduced power and with a smaller footprint. In radar beamforming applications, the heterogenous compute engines enable 67% smaller footprint and up to 43% lower power with 2X beamforming performance.
