Xilinx is Expanding the Boundaries of FPGA Acceleration with Versal and the Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP) - DornerWorks

Being innovative--and staying innovative--means being able to adapt. Xilinx is proving just how adaptive technology can be by bringing the hardware programmability of a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) to cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence. The Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP), the first release of which is Versal features hardware-programmable DSP blocks, a multicore System-on-Chip (SoC), distributed memory, and an adaptive, software programmable compute engine, all populated on FPGA fabric and connected through a Network-on-Chip (NoC). According to Xilinx, Versal's capabilities are further bolstered with highly integrated programmable I/O functionality. FPGAs accelerate algorithms, yet development comes with a steep learning curve.