Hi Dave, Happy New Year to you too! Thanks for the article. I thought I would share this one with the community on the Xilinx Versal ACAP
- https://www.eejournal.com/article/why-does-xilinx-say-that-its-new-7nm-versal-acap-isnt-an-fpga/ In Xilinx's words they are a platform company and no longer an FPGA company. This definitely seems the case when looking at their products. In fact most new Xilinx devices like the Zynq, RFSoC are more System on Chip (SOC) devices that contain FPGA fabric. They are so much more. The Versal contains programmable logic (adaptive logic), AI and CPU. I believe that the user software decides what part on the Versal gets targeted or not. I believe INAF were investigating these devices last year. It would be great to get some feedback. Exciting new changes coming. We are still focusing on the Xilinx Alveo with Vitis, which basically sees the FPGA functionality as RTL kernels which can be used for accelerating the hardware if necessary. CSIRO is doing the same. Let us hope that the AMD/Xilinx merger doesn't cause too many issues. Kind regards, Adam On Mon, 04 Jan 2021, 9:41 PM David MacMahon, <[email protected]> wrote: > Happy New Year to the CASPER community!!! It's hard to imagine 2021 not > being better than 2020... :P > > Here's some intriguing AMD/Xilinx news for you: > > https://hothardware.com/news/amd-patent-hybrid-cpu-fpga-design-xilinx > > In addition to (instead of?) embedding CPUs in FPGAs it looks like FPGAs > will be embedded in CPUs. Not sure how useful this will be for CASPER, but > it will bet interesting to see what this looks like when it's a real > product and not just a patent. > > Cheers, > Dave > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups " > [email protected]" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/2954161E-F25E-44D2-9160-B31B0175BC0C%40berkeley.edu > <https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/2954161E-F25E-44D2-9160-B31B0175BC0C%40berkeley.edu?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/CADTJ%3DnEo%2BjfVGxjzQVNma-4rFj2eD1my7qkCKj7N3aMtF3ntog%40mail.gmail.com.
