AMD Versal FPGA SoC to emulate and verify VLSI work loads even faster
Date: 28/06/2023
When you need a mix of hardened processor cores and FPGA fabric in a chip, Xilinx Zync (presently AMD) was a great product for such needs. With the acquisition Xilinx by AMD, new programmable silicon division of AMD continued the trend of providing advanced programmable SoC solutions. AMD calling its latest programmable SOC chips as Adaptive SOCs. The latest in its offerings is Versal Premium VP1902 adaptive system-on-chip from its Versal family of Adaptive SOCs. These new chips serve now unique applications of building emulators to design even more advanced AI chips, where the market is exploding, demanding very quick design of such chips.
Xilinx was one of the first semiconductor company offering heterogeneous integrated 3-D and 2.5 D semiconductor packaging technologies. In today's world most advanced SoC chips or chiplet based heterogeneous integrated devices.
The new AMD Versal Premium VP1902 adaptive system-on-chip (SoC) is world’s largest adaptive SoC. The chiplet-based VP1902 adaptive SoC is suggested as best for building large emulators as alternate or upgrading popular chip-verification focused emulators such as Zebu, Palladium and Veloce to emulate complex SoC chips which in turn helps large scale hardware assisted verification of complex VLSI design data so that semiconductor chip designers can validate application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and SoC designs before getting it taped out for a zero-failure chip tape-out. Zebu, Palladium and Veloce are built using most advanced FPGAs in the world. You can have your SoC virtually available on emulators build from VP1902 adaptive SoC, so that software developers can test and develop their new and enhanced software elements as if the real chip is available to them, this is called shift-leff strategy in VLSI design.
Zebu, Palladium and Veloce uses FPGAs extensively. The new AI AMD Versal Premium VP1902 adaptive system-on-chip is clearly the best chip to use in next advanced hardware assisted emulators.
“Delivering foundational compute technology to enable our customers is a top priority. In emulation and prototyping, that means delivering the highest capacity and performance possible,” said Kirk Saban, corporate vice president, Product, Software, & Solutions Marketing, Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group, AMD. “Chip designers can confidently emulate and prototype next-generation products using our VP1902 adaptive SoC, accelerating tomorrow’s innovations in AI, autonomous vehicles, Industry 5.0 and other emerging technologies.”
AMD Versal Premium VP1902 adaptive system-on-chip supports latest requirements in developing advanced AI and ML-based chips, which require extensive verification of both silicon and software before getting the chip fabricated from the foundry.
The VP1902 packs 18.5M logic cells for 2X2 higher programmable logic density and 2X4 aggregate I/O bandwidth compared to the previous generation Virtex UltraScale+ VU19P FPGA.
VP1902 features programmable network on chip to help 8X5 faster debugging compared to the prior generation VU19P FPGA, to help identify bugs faster before the chip getting taped out.
AMD Vivado ML design suite, the software development platform added new features such as automated design closure assistance, interactive design tuning, remote multi-user real-time debugging, and enhanced back-end compilation, which enables end users to iterate IC designs faster.
AMD said it collaborates closely with top EDA vendors such as Cadence, Siemens and Synopsys in helping designers access an ecosystem of fully-featured and scalable solutions.
AMD to sample this new Versal Premium VP1902 adaptive SoC in Q3 to early access customers with production expected in the first half of 2024.
Learn more about the AMD Versal Premium VP1902 adaptive SoC at:
Versal: The First Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP)
https://docs.xilinx.com/v/u/en-US/wp505-versal-acap
Exploring AMD Xilinx's Versal ACAP: Features, Series, and Product Lineup
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/exploring-amd-xilinxs-versal-acap-features/
