Xilinx Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform: VersalTM Architecture
B Gaide, D Gaitonde, C Ravishankar… - Proceedings of the 2019 …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
B Gaide, D Gaitonde, C Ravishankar, T Bauer
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field …, 2019•dl.acm.orgIn this paper we describe Xilinx's Versal-Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP).
ACAP is a hybrid compute platform that tightly integrates traditional FPGA programmable
fabric, software programmable processors and software programmable accelerator engines.
ACAP improves over the programmability of traditional reconfigurable platforms by
introducing newer compute models in the form of software programmable accelerators and
by separating out the data movement architecture from the compute architecture. The Versal …
ACAP is a hybrid compute platform that tightly integrates traditional FPGA programmable
fabric, software programmable processors and software programmable accelerator engines.
ACAP improves over the programmability of traditional reconfigurable platforms by
introducing newer compute models in the form of software programmable accelerators and
by separating out the data movement architecture from the compute architecture. The Versal …
In this paper we describe Xilinx's Versal-Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP). ACAP is a hybrid compute platform that tightly integrates traditional FPGA programmable fabric, software programmable processors and software programmable accelerator engines. ACAP improves over the programmability of traditional reconfigurable platforms by introducing newer compute models in the form of software programmable accelerators and by separating out the data movement architecture from the compute architecture. The Versal architecture includes a host of new capabilities, including a chip-pervasive programmable Network-on-Chip (NoC), Imux Registers, compute shell, more advanced SSIT, adaptive deskew of global clocks, faster configuration, and other new programmable elements as well as enhancements to the CLB and interconnect. We discuss these architectural developments and highlight their key motivations and differences in relation to traditional FPGA architectures.
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