Versal™ devices are the industry's first adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP), combining adaptable processing and acceleration engines with programmable logic and configurable connectivity to enable customized, heterogeneous hardware solutions for a wide variety of applications in Data Center, Automotive, 5G Wireless, Wired, and Defense. Versal ACAPs provide transformational features like an integrated silicon host interconnect shell and Intelligent Engines (AI and DSP), Adaptable Engines, and Scalar Engines, providing superior performance/watt over conventional FPGAs, CPUs, and GPUs.
Versal devices are built from a library of building blocks dedicated to processing, compute, acceleration, and connectivity. The following figure shows a top-level view of the Versal ACAP, that contains three major architectural areas: the Scalar Engines that include the Arm® processing system, the Adaptable Engines that include the programmable logic, and the Intelligent Engines that include the AI Engines and DSP Engines. The AI Engine along with Adaptable Engines (programmable logic) and Scalar Engines (processor subsystem) form a tightly integrated heterogeneous compute platform.
