AMD has introduced a brand new entry in its high-performance Versal Gen. 2 field-programmable gate array (FPGA) system-on-chip (SoC) platform: the Versal Premium Gen. 2, its first half to assist Compute Categorical Hyperlink (CXL) 3.1 and PCI Categorical Gen. 6 for high-bandwidth workloads.
“System architects are always seeking to pack extra knowledge into smaller areas and transfer knowledge extra effectively between components of the system,” says AMD’s Salil Raje of the corporate’s newest FPGA launch. “Our newest addition to the Versal Gen 2 portfolio helps clients enhance total system throughput and utilization of reminiscence assets to attain the very best efficiency and unlock insights for his or her most demanding purposes from the cloud to the sting.”
AMD is teasing its upcoming Versal Premium Gen. 2 FPGA SoCs, on account of begin sampling in 2026. (📷: AMD)
The Versal Premium Gen. 2 is the corporate’s first to assist the newest CXL 3.1 and PCIe Gen. 6 connectivity requirements, providing large positive aspects in bandwidth for host-to-FPGA communications: AMD claims a two- to fourfold enhance in line price over rival designs with PCIe Gen. 4 or Gen. 5 connectivity and twice the bandwidth over CXL 2.1 — together with the up to date commonplace’s enhanced material and coherency capabilities.
This expanded bandwidth extents to the FPGA’s reminiscence interface, which helps LPDDR5X reminiscence at as much as 8,533Mb/s — as much as 2.7x sooner, AMD claims, than “comparable aggressive units” primarily based on LPDDR4 or LPDDR5 reminiscence interfaces. Reminiscence can be expanded utilizing CXL-connected modules to ship one other 2.7x acquire, AMD says, with assist for reminiscence pooling throughout a number of units.
AMD says the brand new components are perfect for a spread of duties, together with high-performance instrumentation. (📷: AMD)
These desirous to get their palms on the brand new components, although, will have to be affected person: the corporate has promised improvement instruments by the second quarter of subsequent yr, with silicon samples due early 2026 — and normal availability penciled in to the second half of 2026, at an as-yet unannounced worth level.
Fashions can be out there with between 1.4M and three.3M logic cells, 643k to 1.5M look-up tables, and three,332 to 7,616 digital sign processing (DSP) engines; all fashions will embrace a dual-core Arm Cortex-A72 software course of, dual-core Cortex-R5F real-time processor, and 256kB of on-chip error correcting code (ECC) reminiscence.
Extra data on the brand new AMD Versal Premium Gen. 2 is out there on AMD’s product web page.