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VCK5000 Versal Development Card

by: Xilinx, Inc

The Xilinx VCK5000 Versal development card is built on the Xilinx 7nm Versal® ACAP architecture and is designed for (AI) Engine development with Vitis end-to-end flow and AI Inference development with partner solutions. * Limited to AI Engine only. For full Vivado® flow and device customization, please contact sales.

  • Price: $2,745.00
  • Part Number: VCK5000-AIE-ADK-P-G-ED
  • Lead Time: 8 weeks
  • Device Support:
    • Versal AI Core Series
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Overview

Product Overview

The Xilinx® VCK5000 Versal® development card is built on the Xilinx 7nm Versal ACAP architecture and is designed for 5G, DC compute, AI, Signal Processing, Radar, and other applications. The Domain-Specific Architecture brings strong horsepower per watt while keeping ease-of-use in mind with C/C++, software programmability.

Delivering the world’s first zero dark silicon (near 100% compute efficiency per watt) in standard AI benchmarks and 2x TCO compared to the flagship nVidia GPUs, the VCK5000 is an ideal development platform for CNN, RNN, and NLP acceleration for your cloud and edge applications.

VCK5000 is fully supported by the Vitis™ unified software platform, the Vitis AI™ development environment, and partner AI solutions such as Mipsology and Aupera. If you are an AI developer, bring your TensorFlow / Pytorch trained models to directly infer on Versal using Vitis AI or Mipsology Zebra. If you are looking to implement algorithm acceleration with AI engine and programmable logic, we provide AI engine C/C++ high-level abstraction APIs and Vitis Accelerated Libraries. The Vitis end-to-end flow is developed using C/C++ to run on X86 or embedded processors and manage runtime interactions with the accelerator with XRT. The hardware component, or kernel, can be developed using C/C++, or RTL target on PL or AI Engines.

AI Inference

Key Features

Explore partner solutions and articles, and learn about the key features for AI Inference Development with the VCK5000

2x TCO Reduction vs Mainstream nVidia GPUs

  • 2x perf/w and perf/$ compared to Nvidia Ampere with standard MLPerf Models
  • Achieves 90% compute efficiency 
  • Consume less than 100W at card level

2x End-to-End Video Analytics Throughput vs nVidia GPUs

  • Full pipeline from H.264 decode to computer vision to up to 10 AI models
  • Video decode and CV run on x86 CPU or discrete U30 Alveo card
  • Plug-in based pipeline composition from FFmpeg / Gstreamer

ML Heavy: H.264 Decode + Yolov3 + 3x ResNet-18
Video Heavy: H.264 Decode + tinyYolov3 + 3x ResNet-50

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Easy to Use with Familiar Frameworks

  • Easy-to-use software flow for any CPU & GPU users, no hardware programming required
  • Run inference from Tensorflow framework directly on board
  • State-of-the-art model supported with mainstream frameworks PyTorch, TensorFlow, TensoFlow 2 and Caffe

Partner Solutions

Mipsology Zebra AI Inference Solutions & Aupera Video Machine Learning Streaming Server 

Mipsology Zebra AI Inference Solution

Solution Overview

Mipsology Zebra Software

Zebra is the ideal compute engine to accelerate CNN inference. Zebra seamlessly replaces CPUs/GPUs to compute any neural network on an FPGA faster, with lower power consumption, and at a lower cost. Zebra is ‘plug and play’, no knowledge of FPGA technology, compilation, or any changes to the environment or the application is required. Zebra lets AI engineers focus on application development while enjoying unmatched inference performance.

Click on Get Started to see an interactive demo that allows users to see live results of Zebra computing neural network inference based on Xilinx hardware.

Get Started

Mipsology Zebra Neural Network Computing Software Demo 

This interactive demo allows users to see live results of Zebra computing neural network inference based on Xilinx hardware. Users can select the neural network and the Xilinx hardware and see live results. Each result can be inspected directly in a web browser for each image processed.

Get Started: Zebra Demo 

Step 1: Click the Zebra performance demo link 
Step 2: Select your neural network
Step 3: Select your Xilinx hardware
Step 4: See live results of Zebra inference computation using your selections. 
Step 5: Fill out the Zebra inquiry form to get information on how to download Zebra

Get Started: Live Zebra on VCK5000 

Step 1: Try Zebra VCK5000 Live demo link
Step 2: Drag and drop your photos in the white text box on the top of the screen
Step 3: See live results of Zebra inference computation on the VCK5000 using your selections.
Step 4:  Fill out the Zebra inquiry form to get information on how to download Zebra

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Aupera Intelligent Video Analytics Solution

Solution Overview

Aupera Video Machine Learning Streaming Server Solution

Aupera VMSS solutions support a high density of video feeds from multiple full HD cameras for object identification and classification. The additional unique proposition of this solution is its ability to run multiple inferencing models concurrently and deliver accurate results at a deterministic low latency, resulting in industry-leading low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Get Started

Interested in evaluating or purchasing Aupera Video AI Analytics (VMSS) on VCK5000?

Please fill out this form for further information.  Our team of specialists is here to support your needs, anywhere in the world.

Aupera VMSS Inquiry Form

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VCK5000 in Action

Data centers are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to manage various tasks from monitoring equipment to server optimization. At the heart of the data center, FPGA-based adaptive computing is proving itself to be, in many cases, the most efficient and cost-effective solution for running complex AI workloads.

Here are the best uses of the VCK5000 developer card combined with Vitis AI  from our 2021 Adaptive Computing Challenge 

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AI Engine

AI Engine Development

Get Started with AI Engine Development. Explore Key Features and  Articles

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Power and Performance

  • Up to 10x performance improvements compared to previous generation Xilinx UltraScale+™ with less power in diverse applications
  • Industry-leading compute power: up 145 TOPS (int8); 37 TOPS (int16); 12T FLOPs (fp32)
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Software Familiarity

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Mixed Kernel Development

  • Customize your own data pipeline with mixed kernels
  • Develop AIE kernels in C/C++, PL kernels in RTL or HLS, and let Vitis stitch together the full system
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Get Started with AI Engine Development

Step 1: Purchase

Purchase VCK5000 production silicon-based card 

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Step 2: Access Secure Site 

Request access to the VCK5000 Versal Development Card Secure Site

Step 3: Get Started 

Follow the getting started steps and installation guide in the VCK5000 Versal Development Card Secure Site

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Board Specifications

Card Specifications VCK5000
Device VC1902
Compute Active Passive*
INT8 TOPs (peak) 145 145
Dimensions
Height Full Full
Length Full 3/4
Width Dual Slot Dual Slot
Memory
Off-chip Memory Capacity 16 GB 16 GB
Off-chip Total Bandwidth 102.4 GB/s 102.4 GB/s
Internal SRAM Capacity 23.9 MB 23.9 MB
Internal SRAM Total Bandwidth 23.5 TB/s 23.5 TB/s
Interfaces
PCI Express Gen3 x 16 / Gen4 x 8 Gen3 x 16 / Gen4 x 8
Network Interfaces 2x QSFP28 (100GbE) 2x QSFP28 (100GbE)
Logic Resources
Look-up Tables (LUTs) 899,840 899,840
Power and Thermal
Maximum Total Power 225W 225W
Thermal Cooling Active Passive

* We will ship the Active board only. If you remove the fans from the VCK5000, following the Hardware Installation Guide, it becomes Passive.

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