Versal AI Core Series
Versal AI Core series delivers breakthrough AI inference and wireless acceleration with integrated AI engines that deliver over 100X greater compute performance than today’s server-class CPUs.
Portfolio's Highest Compute for Maximum AI and Workload Acceleration
Scalar Engines
Three scalar processor types are available in Versal™ ACAPs to support diverse application needs. The application processing unit is ideal for complex applications supported by an OS, and the real-time processing unit is ideal for applications needing low latency, determinism, and real-time control. A separate platform management controller manages system boot, security, and debug.
Adaptable Engines
Programmable logic enables the development of custom computational blocks for ever-changing algorithms. The rearchitected logic in Versal ACAPs provides 4X greater density per CLB, reducing the need for costly global routing. Loaded with a wide variety of memory elements and tightly coupled with programmable I/O, the adaptable engines allow users to create powerful accelerators for any application.
Intelligent Engines
AI Engines provide up to 5X higher compute density for vector-based algorithms. Optimized for real-time DSP and AI/ML computation, AI Engines provide deterministic performance.
Enhanced DSP engines provide support for new operations and data types, including single and half-precision floating point and complex 18x18 operations.
Next-Generation I/O
The Versal AI Core series combines PCIe® Gen4 compliance, CCIX support, high performance GPIO, and multirate Ethernet MACs supporting various ethernet configurations to maximize connectivity and flexibility. Additionally, Versal AI Core series devices feature rearchitected low latency 32.75Gb/s transceivers.
Integrated DDR Memory Controllers
Each integrated DDR memory controller provides up to 34.1GB/s of bandwidth with DDR4 and LPDDR4 support, and is optimized for both linear and random traffic. In combination with the programmable Network on Chip, these integrated controllers eliminate the need for soft implementations in the programmable logic, saving development time and logic resources.
Programmable Network on Chip
The programmable network on chip (NoC) provides an optimized multi-terabit interconnect between the different compute engines and integrated IP blocks present in the Versal ACAP architecture, simplifying timing closure and saving logic resources. The NoC compiler provides a streamlined programming experience while allowing users to manage latency and QoS, ensuring that critical data paths are prioritized.
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5G Radio & Beamforming
Beamforming results in enormous signal processing requirements that need to be processed in real time. While adaptable engines are handling status control and data formatting, AI Engines and DSP Engines are processing fixed & floating point signal processing workloads for high performance parallel processing.
Data Center Compute
As convolutional neural networks continue to evolve, the challenge to keep up with increasing computational density requirements can only be addressed by the Versal AI Core series devices, which have AI Engines optimized to efficiently deliver computational density, both cost effectively and power efficiently.
Video Processing for Smart Cities
Versal AI Core series devices enable video surveillance for Smart Cities, with AI Engines driving real-time license plate or facial recognition, DSP engines for video transcoding, and adaptable engines for video scaling, compression, and customization.
Medical Image Processing
Versal AI Core series accelerates parallel beamforming and real-time image processing to create higher quality images and machine-based image analysis to enable physicians and radiologists to make faster and more accurate diagnoses.
Radar Processing
Merging powerful vector-based DSP engines with AI engines in a small form factor enables advanced radars, such as active electronically scanned arrays. AI Core series devices provide terabits per second of antenna bandwidth in a single package.
Wireless Test Equipment
Real-time DSP is used extensively in wireless communications test equipment. Versal AI Engine architecture is well-suited to handle all types of protocol implementations, including 5G from the digital front end to beamforming and baseband.
Versal AI Core Series Features Overview
Scalar Engines Features
| VC1352 | VC1502 | VC1702 | VC1802 | VC1902 | VC2602 | VC2802 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Processing Unit | Dual-core Arm® Cortex®-A72, 48KB/32KB L1 Cache w/ parity & ECC; 1MB L2 Cache w/ ECC | ||||||
| Real-time Processing Unit | Dual-core Arm Cortex-R5F, 32KB/32KB L1 Cache, and 256KB TCM w/ECC | ||||||
| Memory | 256KB On-Chip Memory w/ECC | ||||||
| Connectivity | Ethernet (x2); USB 2.0 (x1); UART (x2); SPI (x2); I2C (x2); CAN-FD (x2) | ||||||
Intelligent Engines Features
| VC1352 | VC1502 | VC1702 | VC1802 | VC1902 | VC2602 | VC2802 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Engines | 128 | 248 | 304 | 300 | 400 | 0 | 0 |
| AI Engines-ML | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 152 | 304 |
| DSP Engines | 928 | 1,312 | 1,312 | 1,600 | 1,968 | 984 | 1,312 |
Adaptable Engines Features
| VC1352 | VC1502 | VC1702 | VC1802 | VC1902 | VC2602 | VC2802 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| System Logic Cells | 540K | 797K | 981K | 1,586K | 1,968K | 820K | 1,139K |
| LUTs | 247K | 372K | 449K | 725K | 900K | 375K | 521K |
Platform Features
| VC1352 | VC1502 | VC1702 | VC1802 | VC1902 | VC2602 | VC2802 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NoC Master / NoC Slave Ports | 10 | 21 | 21 |
28 | 28 | 21 | 21 |
| DDR Memory Controllers | 2 | 3 | 3 |
4 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| CCIX & PCIe® w/ DMA (CPM) | - | 1 x Gen4x16, CCIX |
1 x Gen4x16, CCIX |
1 x Gen4x16, CCIX |
1 x Gen4x16, CCIX |
2 x Gen5x8, CCIX |
2 x Gen5x8, CCIX |
| PCIe Express® | 1 x Gen4x8 | 4 x Gen4x8 | 4 x Gen4x8 | 4 x Gen4x8 | 4 x Gen4x8 | 4 x Gen5x4 | 4 x Gen5x4 |
| 100G Multirate Ethernet MAC | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Video Decoder Unit (VDU) | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 4 |
| 32.75Gb/s GTY or GTYP Transceivers | 8 | 32 | 44 |
44 | 44 | 32 | 32 |
Documentation
Versal Design Guidance and Documentation
Xilinx provides a breadth of documentation, resources, and methodologies to accelerate your development on the Versal architecture. If you’re not sure where to begin with Versal ACAPs, the Design Flow Assistant is an interactive guide to help you create a development strategy, while the Design Process Hubs are a visual and streamlined reference to all Versal documentation by design process.
Integrated Software and Hardware Platform for All Developers
With an inherently software programmable silicon infrastructure, the Versal™ ACAP is designed from the ground up to be software-centric. The enhanced Xilinx® Vivado® Design Suite introduces a new system design methodology and development environments such as traffic analyzer, NoC compiler, data flow modeling, and more. A high-speed, unified, cohesive debug environment accelerates debug and trace across Scalar, Adaptable, and Intelligent engines.
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The Xilinx Vitis™ unified software platform provides comprehensive core development kits, libraries that use hardware-acceleration technology. The platform provides an efficient, convenient, and unified software environment from the cloud to the edge. As a proud member of the open source community, the Vitis unified software platform is entirely free and open source.
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Versal ACAP Evaluation Kits
Be the first to experience the Versal ACAP architecture, built from the ground-up to be natively software programmable. Through a host of tools, software, libraries, IP, middleware, and frameworks, ACAPs enable dynamically customizable accelerated computing solutions through industry-standard design flows. The Versal AI Core series VCK190 evaluation kit has everything you need to jump-start your designs.
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Training Courses
Xilinx training and learning resources provide the practical skills and fundamental knowledge you need to be fully productive in your next development project.
Getting Started with the Xilinx Versal ACAP Platform
Designing with the Versal ACAP: Architecture and Methodology
Designing with the Versal ACAP: Programmable Network on Chip
Designing with the Versal ACAP: Power and Board Design
Designing with Versal AI Engine 1 - Architecture and Design Flow
Designing with Versal AI Engine 2 - Graph Programming with AI Engine Kernels
Versal Design Guidance and Documentation
Xilinx provides a breadth of documentation, resources, and methodologies to accelerate your development on the Versal architecture. If you’re not sure where to begin with Versal ACAPs, the Design Flow Assistant is an interactive guide to help you create a development strategy, while the Design Process Hubs are a visual and streamlined reference to all Versal documentation by design process.
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