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WHITE PAPER Designer's Journey: Navigating the Transition to AMD Versal™ Adaptive SoCs mrcy.com 2 mrcy.com 2 Ever-increasing data volumes, rising computation demands and real-time performance expectations can no longer be satisfied by traditional solutions. With the 2019 launch of the AMD Versal™ architecture, AMD has enabled an innovative approach for the next era of specialized computing. This highly dense, next-generation chip solution combines multiple types of processing elements that step beyond the current CPU/GPU/FPGA paradigm. Utilizing this technology, we can now solve the most advanced radar, cognitive EW and AI challenges — all on a single board. 1. Source: Versal: The First Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP AMD Versal™ WP505 (v1.1.1) Mercury has benefited greatly from close collaboration with AMD during the Versal™ platform development, allowing us to bring a deployable Versal device to the market early — the new SCFE6931 Dual AMD Versal™ AI Core adaptive SoC Processing Board. This white paper follows a Mercury design engineering team's journey toward AMD Versal™ AI Core development methodologies. By starting simply, our team was able to better understand the tools and technology behind the AMD Versal™ architecture before taking on more complex implementations. The following engineer-to-engineer designer 's journey is intended to assist other development teams as they adopt the Versal™ adaptive SoC design. Processing Challenges Processing Solutions AMD Versal™ platform Scalar Processing: Complex algorithms, widely branching decision trees, broad librar y sets. CPUs Arm® Cortex™ processors Vector Processing: Large-scale, parallel computations on high data volumes. Used for signal processing and artificial intelligence applications. DSPs and GPUs Adaptable Intelligence Engines (AIE) Programmable Logic Processing: Real-time, low/no latency, and highly-customizable user applications. FPGAs FPGA with Network on Chip (NoC) Today 's processing challenges typically fall into one of three categories, all if which can be addressed by the the AMD Versal™ platform. AMD VERSAL™ ADAPTIVE SOC IS: ▪ 43x faster than today's fastest CPUs. ▪ 3x faster than today's fastest GPUs. ▪ Up to 20x faster than today's fastest FPGAs. 1