AMD VEK385 Versal AI Edge Gen 2 FPGA evaluation kit plugs directly into a PCIe Gen5/Gen4 slot

AMD has introduced the VEK385 Evaluation Kit built around the Versal AI Edge Gen 2 XC2VE3858 SoC FPGA, which combines eight Cortex-A78AE cores, ten Cortex-R52 cores, FPGA fabric with 543,104 LUTs, 144 AI Engine-ML v2 tiles (up to 184 INT8 TOPS), 2,064 DSPs, a Mali-G78AE GPU, and an integrated ISP. The kit features 20 GB of LPDDR5X memory, a PCIe x8 edge connector supporting Gen5 x4 and Gen3/4 x8, and two HDMI 2.1 RX/TX ports for video. There is also an SFP28 port for 25–100 Gb/s Ethernet, and CAN-FD alongside PL/PS Ethernet for deterministic control applications. The board is designed to accelerate prototyping for automotive (ADAS, autonomous driving), industrial (AMR, edge AI boxes), healthcare (ultrasound, endoscopy, 3D imaging), and aerospace-grade systems. VEK385 Evaluation Kit specifications Adaptive SoC – AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 XC2VE3858-2MSESSVA2112 heterogeneous adaptive SoC CPU – 8x Arm Cortex-A78AE application cores Real-time – 10x Arm Cortex-R52 [...] The post AMD VEK385 Versal AI Edge Gen 2 FPGA evaluation kit plugs directly into a PCIe Gen5/Gen4 slot appeared first on CNX Software - Embedded Systems News.