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Technology Advancements For Dynamic Function eXchange In Vivado ML Edition


As systems become more complex and designers are asked to do more with less, adaptability is a critical asset. While Xilinx FPGAs and SoCs always provided the flexibility to perform on-site device reprogramming, current constraints including increased cost, tighter board space, and power consumption demand even more efficient design strategies. Xilinx Dynamic Function eXchange (DFX) extends the... » read more

Technology Advancements For Dynamic Function eXchange In Vivado ML Edition


As systems become more complex and designers are asked to do more with less, adaptability is a critical asset. While Xilinx FPGAs and SoCs always provided the flexibility to perform on-site device reprogramming, current constraints including increased cost, tighter board space, and power consumption demand even more efficient design strategies. Xilinx Dynamic Function eXchange (DFX) extends the... » read more

Importance Of Programmability In Next-Generation Security Appliances


Traditional methods of deploying network security through software-based firewalls do not scale because the latency and bandwidth requirements cannot be addressed. The flexibility and configurability of Xilinx adaptive devices combined with IP and tool offerings significantly improves security processing performance. This white paper explores multiple firewall architectures, which include so... » read more

ML-based Routing Congestion And Delay Estimation In Vivado ML Edition


The FPGA physical design flow offers a compelling opportunity for Machine Learning for CAD (MLCAD) for the following reasons: • An ML solution can be applied wholesale to a device family. • There is a vast data farm that can be harvested from device models and design data from broad applications. • There is a single streamlined design flow that an be instrumented, annotated, and quer... » read more

Adaptive Computing In Robotics


Traditional software development in robotics is about programming functionality in the CPU of a given robot with a pre-defined architecture and constraints. With adaptive computing, instead, building a robotic behavior is about programming an architecture. By leveraging adaptive computing, roboticists can adapt one or more of the properties of its computing systems (e.g., its determinism, power... » read more

System-Level Benefits Of The Versal Platform


Moore's Law has fueled the technological prosperity of the last 50 years, but it is generally believed now that Gordon Moore's 1965 forecast about the pace of innovation no longer holds true today. Continuing the silicon architectures of yesterday cannot meet the expanding demands of tomorrow's workloads. Frequently highlighted by today’s leaders in the field of computer architecture, to meet... » read more

Solution Efficiencies For Dynamic Function eXchange Using Abstract Shells


Dynamic Function eXchange (DFX) enables great flexibility within Xilinx® silicon, empowering you to load applications on demand, deliver updates to deployed systems, and reduce power consumption. Platform designs allow for collaboration between groups, where one group can focus on infrastructure and another on hardware acceleration. However, DFX has fundamental flow requirements that lead to l... » read more

ACAP At The Edge With The Versal AI Edge Series


This white paper introduces the AI Edge series to the Versal ACAP portfolio, a domain-specific architecture (DSA) that meets the strenuous demands of systems implemented in the 7nm silicon process. This series is optimized to meet the performance-per-watt requirements of edge nodes at or near the analog-digital boundary. Here, immediate response to the physical world is highly valued, and in ma... » read more

Achieving Embedded Design Simplicity With Kria SOMs


Xilinx Kria System-on-Modules (SOMs) provide a secure and production-ready multicore Arm processing and FPGA platform, including memories, power management, and your choice of a Yocto or Ubuntu Linux infrastructure to build accelerated AI-enabled applications at the edge. Kria accelerated apps offer an industry-first shortcut that enable both new and experienced Xilinx designers to skip doing a... » read more

Kria K26 SOM: The Ideal Platform For Vision AI At The Edge


With various advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms, many high-compute applications are now getting deployed on edge devices. So, there is a need for an efficient hardware that can execute complex algorithms efficiently as well as adapt to rapid enhancements in this technology. Xilinx's Kria K26 SOM is designed to address the requirements of executing ... » read more

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