Programmable logic devices are efficient for digital signal processing (DSP) applications because they can implement custom, fully parallel algorithms. DSP applications use many binary multipliers and accumulators that are best implemented in dedicated DSP resources.
Versal® devices have many dedicated low-power DSPs combining high speed with small size while retaining system design flexibility. The DSP resources enhance the speed and efficiency of many applications beyond digital signal processing such as wide dynamic bus shifters, memory address generators, wide bus multiplexers, and memory-mapped I/O registers. The DSP Engine in the Versal architecture is defined using the DSP58 primitive.
