SAN JOSE, Calif., March 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc.
(NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced Versal™ Premium, the
third series in the Versal ACAP portfolio. The Versal
Premium series features highly integrated, networked and
power-optimized cores and the industry's highest bandwidth and
compute density on an adaptable platform. Versal Premium is
designed for the highest bandwidth networks operating in thermally
and spatially constrained environments, as well as for cloud
providers who need scalable, adaptable application
acceleration.
Versal is the industry's first adaptive compute acceleration
platform (ACAP), a revolutionary new category of heterogeneous
compute devices with capabilities that far exceed those of
conventional silicon architectures. Developed on TSMC's
7-nanometer process technology, Versal Premium combines software
programmability with dynamically configurable hardware acceleration
and pre-engineered connectivity and security features to enable a
faster time-to-market. The Versal Premium series delivers up to 3X
higher throughput compared to current generation FPGAs, with
built-in Ethernet, Interlaken, and cryptographic engines that
enable fast and secure networks. The series doubles the compute
density of currently deployed mainstream FPGAs and provides the
adaptability to keep pace with increasingly diverse and evolving
cloud and networking workloads.
"The Versal Premium series takes ACAPs to the next level
delivering breakthrough networked hard IP integration enabling the
development of single chip 400G and 800G solutions," said
Kirk Saban, vice president of
Product and Platform Marketing at Xilinx. "Targeting
next-generation networks and cloud deployments, Versal Premium
delivers superior bandwidth and compute density in a scalable
platform that is readily programmable by hardware and software
developers alike for optimized acceleration and reduced TCO."
The Versal Premium series is built on a foundation of the
currently shipping Versal AI Core and Versal Prime ACAP series. New
and unique to Versal Premium are 112Gbps PAM4 transceivers,
multi-hundred gigabit Ethernet and Interlaken connectivity,
high-speed cryptography, and PCIe® Gen5 with built-in
DMA, supporting both CCIX and CXL. Together with the
Vitis™ unified software platform and Vivado®
Design Suite, the Versal Premium series offers a complete solution
stack for hardware and software developers for maximum
productivity.
Faster, More Secure Networks
Greatly increased network traffic from 5G network rollout is
driving demand for power-optimized throughput and compute density
within the existing footprint and power envelopes. The Versal
Premium series addresses these challenges by delivering up to 9Tb/s
of scalable, adaptable serial bandwidth. This is achieved by
utilizing 112G PAM4 transceivers and integrated connectivity for
core, metro and data center interconnect (DCI) infrastructure that
doubles bandwidth density per port and reduce latency by up to 50
percent.
The pre-engineered connectivity enables secure, multi-terabit
Ethernet with the flexibility to support a variety of data rates
and protocols. Channelized Ethernet cores deliver up to 5Tb/s of
throughput in a minimized footprint and high-speed cryptography
engines provide up to 1.6Tb/s of encrypted line-rate throughput and
support for AES-GCM-256/128, MACsec, and IPsec.
"As the demand on the core network continues to grow, the need
for adaptable infrastructure hardware greatly increases. The new
Versal Premium ACAP builds on Xilinx's portfolio of
high-performance and flexible products for communications
networks," said Jim McGregor,
principal analyst, TIRIAS Research. "With the integration of
networked, power-optimized cores, Versal Premium will allow telco
operators to build fast and secure networks while offering
adaptable acceleration for new data-intensive workloads that are
transforming networks and data centers."
Adaptable Cloud Acceleration
The Versal Premium series is engineered to help hyperscalers
reach the highest levels of acceleration for a wide range of data
center workloads. The over 120TB/s of on-chip memory bandwidth,
coupled with the customizable memory hierarchy, reduces data
movement to remove key bottlenecks, while pre-engineered
connectivity and cores allow drop-in integration into existing
cloud infrastructure. From genomics, analytics and video
transcoding to AI inference for speech and image recognition,
Versal Premium delivers a highly integrated, cloud-ready platform
enabling breakthrough performance for diverse workloads.
Availability
The Versal Premium series will begin sampling with early access
customers in the first half of 2021. Documention is currently
available and customers can start prototyping now with the Versal
Prime Evaluation Kit. Versal Prime devices implement many of the
same architectural blocks as Versal Premium devices and support pin
migration to Versal Premium.
Visit our website for more information on Versal, Versal Prime
series and the Versal AI Core series. For more information on
Xilinx and its breakthrough technologies, please
visit www.xilinx.com.
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About Xilinx
Xilinx develops highly flexible and
adaptive processing platforms that enable rapid innovation across a
variety of technologies – from the endpoint to the edge to the
cloud. Xilinx is the inventor of the FPGA, hardware programmable
SoCs, and the ACAP, designed to deliver the most dynamic processor
technology in the industry and enable the adaptable, intelligent,
and connected world of the future. For more information,
visit www.xilinx.com.
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