Design Tools to Develop Solutions on all AMD Adaptive Computing Platforms
AMD and our Partner ecosystem provide software and hardware development environments, and embedded platforms that offer a comprehensive set of familiar and powerful tools, libraries, and methodologies. These environments reduce development time while allowing developers to create custom hardware accelerators easily and on-demand. These tools enable all types of developers from AI scientists, application and algorithm engineers, embedded software developers, and traditional hardware developers to use AMD adaptive computing solutions.
2025.2 Software Release Highlights
What’s New in Vivado
- Versal QoR enhancements with updates to retiming and physical optimization
- SystemVerilog interfaces support for simplified AXI connections and automatic wrapper creation for all AMD IP and BDs
- Ease-of-use enhancements
What’s New in Vitis
- Enhanced Design Flow with AMD Versal™ AI Engines
- Easier Verification of Versal AI Engine Designs
- Enhancements to Vitis Model Composer for AIE DSP Designs
- Updates for Vitis IDE for Embedded Development
Vitis Software
Build Advanced, Performance-Optimized System Designs
Discover the benefits of AMD Vitis™ unified software platform—a comprehensive development environment for hardware and software developers to design, simulate, and implement complex systems using AMD adaptive SoCs and FPGAs.
Vivado Software
Faster Design Iterations and Meeting Fmax Targets
Learn how advanced features in Vivado™ design software helps hardware designers reduce compile times and design iterations, while more accurately estimating power for AMD adaptive SoCs and FPGAs.
Vitis AI Software
Achieve Optimal Artificial Intelligence Inference Performance with Vitis AI
AMD Vitis™ AI is a comprehensive development platform for machine learning, designed to offer world-leading AI inference performance on AMD platforms. It consists of a series of highly-efficient DPU overlays, powerful software tools, optimized software libraries, deep learning models from multiple industry-standard frameworks and sample designs, with which developers can easily achieve end-to-end accelerated AI inference abilities on AMD platforms, achieving up to 10x performance increase versus CPU/GPU solutions.
Embedded Software
Enabling Embedded Developers with Necessary Components
Learn how to accelerate your embedded journey from evaluation to development to deployment with the AMD Embedded Development Framework (EDF), which offers a modular, scalable, and open-source system-level environment.
Built on the Yocto Project™, AMD EDF provides a complete solution stack targeting applications on AMD adaptive SoCs, containing:
- EDF-custom Linux® operating systems and board support packages (BSP) for immediate full-board enablement
- Feature rich, out-of-the-box prebuilt images
- Modular reference designs for scalable deployment
- Support for advanced boot flows and multi-domain architectures