Production-ready embedded boards and low-cost
developer kit accelerate design cycles for rapid deployment;
initial products target vision AI applications in smart cities and
factories
Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today introduced the Kria™ portfolio
of adaptive system-on-modules (SOMs), production-ready small form
factor embedded boards that enable rapid deployment in edge-based
applications. Coupled with a complete software stack and pre-built,
production-grade accelerated applications, Kria adaptive SOMs are a
new method of bringing adaptive computing to AI and software
developers.
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The first product available in the Kria SOM portfolio, the Kria
K26 SOM, specifically targets vision AI applications in smart
cities and smart factories. The Xilinx® SOM roadmap includes a full
range of products, from cost-optimized SOMs for size and
cost-constrained applications to higher performance modules that
will offer developers more real-time compute capability per
watt.
“Xilinx’s entrance into the burgeoning SOM market builds on our
evolution beyond the chip-level business that began with our Alveo
boards for the data center and continues with the introduction of
complete board-level solutions for embedded systems,” said Kirk
Saban, vice president, Product and Platform Marketing at Xilinx.
“The Kria SOM portfolio expands our market reach into more edge
applications and will make the power of adaptable hardware
accessible to millions of software and AI developers.”
According to industry reports, the SOM market is growing at
roughly 11 percent annually and total market revenue is expected to
reach $2.3 billion by 20251.
Faster Time to Deployment
Kria SOMs harness the power, performance and flexibility
advantages of Xilinx adaptable hardware, delivered as
production-deployable, adaptive modules. Kria SOMs enable rapid
deployment by providing an end-to-end board-level solution with a
pre-built software stack. By allowing developers to start at a more
evolved point in the design cycle compared to chip-down design,
Kria SOMs can reduce time-to-deployment by up to nine months.
The Kria K26 SOM is built on top of the Zynq® UltraScale+™ MPSoC
architecture, which features a quad-core Arm® Cortex™-A53
processor, more than 250 thousand logic cells, and a H.264/265
video codec. The SOM also features 4GB of DDR4 memory and 245 IOs,
which allow it to adapt to virtually any sensor or interface. With
1.4 tera-ops of AI compute, the Kria K26 SOM enables developers to
create vision AI applications offering more than 3X higher
performance at lower latency and power compared to GPU-based SOMs,
critical for smart vision applications like security, traffic and
city cameras, retail analytics, machine vision, and vision guided
robotics.
Enabling Millions of Software Developers
Xilinx has invested heavily in its tool flows to make adaptive
computing more accessible to AI and software developers without
hardware expertise. The Kria SOM portfolio takes this accessibility
to the next level by coupling the hardware and software platform
with production-ready vision accelerated applications. These
turnkey applications eliminate all the FPGA hardware design work
and only require software developers to integrate their custom AI
models, application code, and optionally modify the vision pipeline
– using familiar design environments, such as TensorFlow, Pytorch
or Café frameworks, as well as C, C++, OpenCL™, and Python
programming languages—enabled by the Vitis™ unified software
development platform and libraries.
With this new accelerated-application paradigm for
software-based design, Xilinx is announcing the first embedded app
store for edge applications. Building out beyond its Alveo™ catalog
of apps for data center, the Xilinx App Store now offers customers
a wide selection of apps for Kria SOMs from Xilinx and its
ecosystem partners. Xilinx offerings are open source accelerated
applications, provided at no-charge, and range from smart camera
tracking and face detection to natural language processing with
smart vision.
Kria SOMs also enable customization and optimization for
embedded developers with support for standard Yocto-based PetaLinux
and, for the first time ever, Xilinx is announcing a coming
collaboration with Canonical to provide Ubuntu Linux support, the
highly popular Linux distribution used by AI developers. This
offers widespread familiarity with AI developers and
interoperability with existing applications. Customers can develop
in either environment and take either approach to production. Both
environments will come pre-built with a software infrastructure and
helpful utilities.
"For smart vision applications, developers and innovators want
the Ubuntu experience they're used to from cloud to desktop,” said
Thibaut Rouffineau, vice president of marketing, Canonical/Ubuntu.
“Together with Xilinx, we’re excited to provide Kria SOM customers
with out-of-the-box productivity, frictionless transition from
development to production, and guaranteed stability and security in
the field."
Out-of-the-Box Ready, Low-cost Development Kit
The Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit provides an affordable and
easy-to-use development platform for designing vision applications,
right out of the box. The kit is purpose-built to support
accelerated vision applications available in the Xilinx App Store
and is an excellent way to get up and running in less than an hour
with no knowledge of FPGAs or FPGA tools.
Part of the Kria development experience is a self-enabled path
for exploration, design, and ultimately production deployment
through a vast set of online resource. Hobbyists, makers, and
commercial developers alike can accelerate through each phase of
the design cycle with tutorial videos, training courses, and a vast
ecosystem of providers offering accelerated applications, design
services, and more.
Pricing and Availability
The Kria KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit is priced at a low $199.
When ready to move to deployment, customers can seamlessly
transition to the Kria K26 production SOM, including commercial and
industrial variants priced at $250 or $350, respectively.
Kria K26 SOMs and the KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit are
immediately orderable from Xilinx and its network of worldwide
distributors. The KV260 Vision Starter Kit is available
immediately, with the commercial-grade Kria K26 SOM shipping in May
of 2021 and the industrial-grade K26 SOM shipping this summer.
Ubuntu Linux on Kria K26 SOMs is expected to be available in July
of 2021. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com/kria.
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About Xilinx
Xilinx, Inc. develops highly flexible and adaptive processing
platforms that enable rapid innovation across a variety of
technologies - from the cloud, to the edge, to the endpoint. Xilinx
is the inventor of the FPGA and Adaptive SoCs (including our
Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform, or ACAP), designed to
deliver the most dynamic computing technology in the industry. We
collaborate with our customers to create scalable, differentiated
and intelligent solutions that enables the adaptable, intelligent
and connected world of the future. For more information, visit
xilinx.com.
- Source: QYR Electronics Research Center, “Global System on
Module SOM Market Report, History and Forecast 2014-2025”, July
2019.
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