Today Xilinx announces another milestone in the rollout of our Versal® portfolio. The Versal Premium series has completed its Early Access phase. Now Versal Premium documentation and tools are publicly available on xilinx.com. Vivado® ML 2022.1 now supports the Versal Premium now supports the Versal Premium VP1202, VP1502, VP1702, and VP1802 devices in the standard Vivado ML installation, which is available here. 

Up until very recently, any mention of TOPS always referred to dense TOPS. However, with the recent push to support zero-compression in sparse matrices, the term sparse TOPS has appeared. What is the difference between dense TOPS and sparse TOPS? And why should you care about sparsity? Let’s dive into these topics.

Many industries continuously demand higher bandwidth capacities than today's technologies and form factors can support. The demand is for a more efficient, pervasive computing platform that scales beyond what CPU and GPU technologies can reach.

Xilinx is introducing two Versal™ ACAP evaluation kits: Versal AI Core series VCK190 evaluation kit and Versal Prime series VMK180 evaluation kit. Both the VCK190 and VMK180 evaluation kits come with the same set of accessories and have similar onboard interfaces. The main difference between the kits is the target device. The VCK190 evaluation board uses the Versal AI core series VC1902 ACAP, which includes an array of AI Engines while the VMK180 evaluation board uses the Versal Prime series VM1802 ACAP. 

As we enter the era of heterogeneous compute, where different processing engines in a single application take us to that next level of performance and efficiency, debug and trace tools have to evolve to keep up with devices.

Yesterday, as I was sitting in traffic on my way home from work and looking at the long lines of cars surrounding me, I had an interesting thought. Every car I could see was loaded with semiconductor products—in engine sensors, infotainment systems, smartphones, laptops, and even watches. Compared to a decade or two ago, the proliferation of modern computing power has changed nearly every aspect of our lives. 

One of main reasons that our customers choose Xilinx is because of performance-per-watt advantage. Key applications for power include aerospace & defense, industrial scientific & measurement, automotive, and enclosed environmental installations.

In April, Xilinx hit an exciting milestone as we announced full production shipments for the Versal® AI Core series and Versal Prime series. For the Versal Prime series, this means the first of the VM1xxx production devices are available; VM1xxx devices feature PCIe® Gen 4 support and 32G GTY transceivers along with the programmable network on chip (NoC) and other software-programmable silicon infrastructure common to all Versal ACAPs. With a wide range of device sizes, VM1xxx devices are ideal for inline storage acceleration, satellite and other avionics control applications, and more.

Xilinx hit another exciting milestone in April 2021 when we announced full production shipments for the lead Versal® AI Core and Versal Prime devices. But like our universe, the universe of all things Versal continues to expand at a rapid rate to include more.

Xilinx Versal architecture and software tools provides a way to drastically improve image quality, speed, and accuracy in medical ultrasound systems using advanced imaging techniques. This greatly improves ultrasound-based diagnostic ability in complicated procedures.