Versal AI Core Series

Delivers breakthrough AI inference and wireless acceleration with integrated AI Engines that deliver outstanding compute performance

Portfolio's Highest Compute for Maximum AI and Workload Acceleration

Versal™ AI Core Series block diagram

Key Features

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Processing System

Three scalar processor types are available in Versal adaptive SoCs to support diverse application needs. The application processing unit is ideal for complex applications supported by an OS, and the real-time processing unit is ideal for applications which need low latency, determinism, and real-time control. A separate platform management controller manages system boot, security, and debug.

Applications & Industries

5G Radio & Beamforming

Beamforming results in enormous signal processing requirements that need to be processed in real time. While adaptable engines are handling status control and data formatting, AI Engines and DSP Engines are processing fixed floating point signal processing workloads for high performance parallel processing.

Data Center Compute

As convolutional neural networks continue to evolve, the challenge to keep up with increasing computational density requirements can only be addressed by the Versal AI Core series devices, which have AI Engines optimized to efficiently deliver computational density, both cost effectively and power efficiently.

Video Processing for Smart Cities

Versal AI Core series devices enable the plethora of new video processing applications being deployed at the edge for Smart Cities, with AI Engines driving real-time license plate, facial recognition, or object classification, video decoder units for video transcoding, and adaptable engines for video scaling, compression, and customization.

Medical Image Processing

Versal AI Core series accelerates parallel beamforming and real-time image processing to create higher quality images and machine-based image analysis to enable physicians and radiologists to make faster and more accurate diagnoses.

Radar Processing

Merging powerful vector-based DSP engines with AI engines in a small form factor enables advanced radars, such as active electronically scanned arrays. AI Core series devices provide terabits per second of antenna bandwidth in a single package.

Wireless Test Equipment

Real-time DSP is used extensively in wireless communications test equipment. Versal AI Engine architecture is well-suited to handle all types of protocol implementations, including 5G from the digital front end to beamforming and baseband.

Product Specifications

Processing Subsystem Features

  VC1502 VC1702 VC1802 VC1902 VC2602 VC2802
Application Processing Unit Dual-core Arm® Cortex®-A72, 48 KB/32 KB L1 Cache w/ parity & ECC; 1 MB L2 Cache w/ ECC
Real-time Processing Unit Dual-core Arm Cortex-R5F, 32 KB/32 KB L1 Cache, and 256 KB TCM w/ECC
Memory 256 KB On-Chip Memory w/ECC 
Connectivity Ethernet (x2); USB 2.0 (x1); UART (x2); SPI (x2); I2C (x2); CAN-FD (x2)

AI Engine and DSP Engine Features

  VC1502 VC1702 VC1802 VC1902 VC2602 VC2802
AI Engines 198 304 300 400 0 0
AI Engines-ML 0 0 0 0 152 304
DSP Engines 1,032 1,312 1,600 1,968 984 1,312

Programmable Logic Features

  VC1502 VC1702 VC1802 VC1902 VC2602 VC2802
System Logic Cells (K) 815 981 1,586 1,968 820 1,139
LUTs  372,352 448,512 725,000 899,840 375,000 520,704

Foundational Platform Features

  VC1502 VC1702 VC1802 VC1902 VC2602 VC2802
NoC Master / NoC Slave Ports 21 21
28 28 21 21
DDR Memory Controllers 3 3
4 4 3 3
PCIe® w/ DMA (CPM) 1 x Gen4x16
1 x Gen4x16
1 x Gen4x16
1 x Gen4x16
2 x Gen5x8
2 x Gen5x8
PCI Express® 4 x Gen4x8 4 x Gen4x8 4 x Gen4x8 4 x Gen4x8 4 x Gen5x4 4 x Gen5x4
100G Multirate Ethernet MAC 3 4 4 4 2 2
Video Decoder Engines (VDEs) - - - - 2 4
GTY Transceivers 32 44 44 44 0 0
GTYP Transceivers 0 0 0 0 321 321

1. 16 GTYP transceivers are dedicated to CPM5 for PCI Express use.

For All Developers

AMD provides a leading software development environment for designing with adaptive SoCs and FPGAs—this includes tools (compilers, simulators, etc.), IP, and solutions.

​This environment can reduce development time while allowing developers to achieve high performance per watt. AMD adaptive SoCs & FPGA design 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.​

Get Started

Jump-start your design cycle and achieve fast time-to-market with the proven hardware, software support, tools, design examples, and documentation available for the kit.

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Start Developing on the Versal AI Core Series VCK190 Evaluation Kit

Start evaluating Versal AI Core series capabilities today with the VCK190 evaluation kit featuring the VC1902 device. Leveraging the on-chip AI Engines optimized for signal processing and ML inference, this platform is ideal for developing compute-intensive, latency-sensitive DSP and ML applications. Jump-start your design cycle and achieve fast time-to-market with the proven hardware, software support, tools, design examples, and documentation available for the kit.

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