Xilinx unveiled its Versal Premium lineup of Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platforms (ACAPs) that wield a new take on FPGA design, building on its Versal AI Core and Prime series. Last year, Xilinx started sampling the Prime and AI Core series, two of the six Versal product lines that it has planned, and today it is unveiling more details about the higher-end Premium series, although it won’t start sampling until 2021.
Xilinx designed the Versal Premium series for high bandwidth networks in space- and thermally-constrained environments. The company claims the Premium ACAPs offer three times the throughput and twice the compute density of competing solutions. Xilinx says the Versal Premium delivers the equivalent networking logic density of 22 16nm FPGAs.