Overview

Programmable Logic

Unparalleled flexibility to build low-latency proprietary processing functions that can adapt with evolving and diverse algorithms.

Heterogeneous Acceleration

Highly integrated compute platform with embedded application and real-time CPU cores and AI Engines for machine learning or DSP.

Breakthrough Integration

Programable network on chip (NoC) and expansive hard IP provide the foundation for outstanding system-level performance.

Portfolio

General-Purpose Versal Adaptive SoCs

General-purpose Versal™ adaptive SoCs combine programmable logic with embedded Arm® application and real-time CPU cores, a programmable network on chip, high-speed serial transceivers, programmable I/O, and a broad offering of hard IP.

The Versal Prime Series features mid-range devices while the Versal Premium Series features high-end devices.

Versal Prime Series Gen 2

Extends the Versal Prime Series, adding high-performance integrated CPUs and support for 8K video processing and DDR5/LPDDR5X memory.

Versal Premium Series Gen 2

Extends the Versal Premium Series, with enhanced security, new GTM2 transceivers, and support for PCIe® Gen6, CXL® 3.1, and DDR5/LPDDR5X memory.

Versal Prime Series

The foundational series of Versal adaptive SoCs, offering mid-range devices with broad applicability across a wide range of markets.

Versal Premium Series

Breakthrough integration of high-performance, power-optimized cores with 112G transceivers and large device densities for the most challenging compute and networking applications.

Specialized Versal Adaptive SoCs

Specialized Versal adaptive SoCs supplement the base architecture from the general-purpose Versal portfolio with advanced capabilities such as AI Engines for both DSP and machine learning workloads, integrated RF-ADCs/RF-DACs, expanded DSP hard IP, or high-bandwidth memory.

Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2

Extends the Versal AI Edge Series, adding high-performance integrated CPUs and new hard IP to enable preprocessing, AI inference, and postprocessing in a single device.

Versal RF Series

Integrates 18 GHz RF-ADCs and RF-DACs with hard IP blocks, programmable logic, DSP Engines, and AI Engines in a SWaP-optimized adaptive SoC.

Versal AI Edge Series

Delivers outstanding AI performance/watt for power- and thermally-constrained edge applications, accelerating preprocessing and AI inference.

Versal AI Core Series

Delivers breakthrough AI inference and digital signal processing acceleration within a mid-size footprint with integrated AI Engines.

Versal HBM Series

Features hyper integration of fast memory, secure data, and programmable logic for memory bound, compute intensive, high bandwidth applications.

For All Developers

AMD provides leadership software and hardware development environments for designing with adaptive SoCs and FPGAs, offering a comprehensive set of familiar and powerful tools, libraries, and methodologies. 

This primarily includes the AMD Vivado™ Design Suite, which helps hardware designers reduce compile times and design iterations while more accurately estimating power. In addition, the AMD Vitis™ unified software platform enables building advanced, performance-optimized system designs (including high-performance DSP with AI Engine technology) using AMD adaptive SoCs and FPGAs, along with other tools (compilers, simulators, etc.), IP, and solutions.

These environments reduce development time while allowing developers to achieve high performance per watt. They also enable both automation and user control to all types of developers from AI scientists, application and algorithm engineers, embedded software developers, and traditional hardware developers. 

Go to Vivado for Versal web page to learn more about the significant improvements made in the Vivado Design Suite.

  • Vitis Unified Software Development Platform​
    The AMD Vitis™ software platform is a development environment for developing designs that include FPGA fabric, Arm® processor subsystems, and AI Engines. The Vitis tools work in conjunction with AMD Vivado™ Design Suite to provide a high level of abstraction over RTL for design development.
  • Vitis AI
    The Vitis™ AI software is a comprehensive AI inference development solution for AMD devices, boards, Alveo™ data center acceleration cards, select PCs, laptops, and workstations. It consists of a rich set of AI models, optimized neural processing unit (NPU) cores, tools, libraries, and example designs for AI at the edge, endpoints, and in the data center. It is designed with high efficiency and ease of use in mind, unleashing the full potential of AI acceleration on AMD adaptive SoCs and AMD Ryzen™ AI powered PCs.
  • Vitis HLS
    The Vitis™ HLS tool allows users to easily create complex FPGA algorithms by synthesizing a C/C++ function into RTL. The Vitis HLS tool is tightly integrated with both the Vivado™ Design Suite for synthesis and place & route and the Vitis™ unified software platform for heterogeneous system designs and applications.
  • Vitis Model Composer
    Vitis™ Model Composer is a model-based design tool that enables rapid design exploration within the MathWorks MATLAB® and Simulink® environment and accelerates the path to production on AMD devices through automatic code generation.​ ​ You can design your DSP algorithms and iterate through them using high-level, performance-optimized blocks and validate functional correctness through system-level simulations. Vitis Model Composer transforms your design into a production-quality implementation through automatic optimizations.
  • Vivado Design Suite Go to link
    Vivado™ Design Suite is the design software for AMD adaptive SoCs and FPGAs. It includes: design entry, synthesis, place and route, and verification/simulation tools. Vivado tools support design entry in traditional HDL like VHDL and Verilog. It also supports a graphical user interface-based tool called the IP Integrator (IPI) that allows for a plug-and-play IP integration design environment. The Vivado Design Suite delivers exceptional synthesis and implementation for today’s complex FPGAs and adaptive SoCs with built-in capabilities for timing closure and methodology.
  • OS & Embedded Runtime Go to link
    Built on the open-source Yocto Project™, AMD Embedded Development Framework (EDF) delivers a complete out-of-the-box experience with a modular, scalable, and system-level development environment that streamlines and accelerates the path from development to deployment.
Vitis Unified Software Development Platform​
The AMD Vitis™ software platform is a development environment for developing designs that include FPGA fabric, Arm® processor subsystems, and AI Engines. The Vitis tools work in conjunction with AMD Vivado™ Design Suite to provide a high level of abstraction over RTL for design development.
Vitis AI
The Vitis™ AI software is a comprehensive AI inference development solution for AMD devices, boards, Alveo™ data center acceleration cards, select PCs, laptops, and workstations. It consists of a rich set of AI models, optimized neural processing unit (NPU) cores, tools, libraries, and example designs for AI at the edge, endpoints, and in the data center. It is designed with high efficiency and ease of use in mind, unleashing the full potential of AI acceleration on AMD adaptive SoCs and AMD Ryzen™ AI powered PCs.
Vitis HLS
The Vitis™ HLS tool allows users to easily create complex FPGA algorithms by synthesizing a C/C++ function into RTL. The Vitis HLS tool is tightly integrated with both the Vivado™ Design Suite for synthesis and place & route and the Vitis™ unified software platform for heterogeneous system designs and applications.
Vitis Model Composer
Vitis™ Model Composer is a model-based design tool that enables rapid design exploration within the MathWorks MATLAB® and Simulink® environment and accelerates the path to production on AMD devices through automatic code generation.​ ​ You can design your DSP algorithms and iterate through them using high-level, performance-optimized blocks and validate functional correctness through system-level simulations. Vitis Model Composer transforms your design into a production-quality implementation through automatic optimizations.
Vivado Design Suite Go to link
Vivado™ Design Suite is the design software for AMD adaptive SoCs and FPGAs. It includes: design entry, synthesis, place and route, and verification/simulation tools. Vivado tools support design entry in traditional HDL like VHDL and Verilog. It also supports a graphical user interface-based tool called the IP Integrator (IPI) that allows for a plug-and-play IP integration design environment. The Vivado Design Suite delivers exceptional synthesis and implementation for today’s complex FPGAs and adaptive SoCs with built-in capabilities for timing closure and methodology.
OS & Embedded Runtime Go to link
Built on the open-source Yocto Project™, AMD Embedded Development Framework (EDF) delivers a complete out-of-the-box experience with a modular, scalable, and system-level development environment that streamlines and accelerates the path from development to deployment.

Resources

Introduction to Versal Adaptive SoCs

Software-programmable, heterogeneous compute platform that combines programmable logic, processing systems, and AI and DSP Engines—for applications including, data center, wired network, 5G wireless, automotive driver assist, and more.

Vivado for Versal

With a streamlined design flow, Vivado Design Suite enables traditional FPGA developers to achieve design closure quickly with Versal adaptive SoCs.

Conference Paper

AMD Adaptive SoCs: Versal Architecture

AI Engine White Paper

AI Engines are high-performance VLIW/SIMD vector processors that offer area and power advantages over programmable logic for compute-intensive tasks including machine learning and digital signal processing.

Versal Architecture and Product Data Sheet: Overview

Provides a summary of each series within the Versal portfolio and a general overview of the Versal architecture including the programmable logic, processing system, AI Engines, network on chip, hard IP, I/O, and high-speed serial transceivers.

Long Lifecycle

The Versal AI Core, AI Edge, Prime, Premium, and RF Series portfolios will be available through 2045+.

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