AMD has introduced the Versal Premium Series Gen 2, a new generation of adaptive SoCs that is designed to offer a high level of performanceand which they position as one of the most advanced FPGA solutions of the moment, thanks to their support for Compute Express Link (CXL) 3.1 and PCIe Gen6. They also support LPDDR5X memory.
Compatibility with these latest generation standards represents an important advantage, since it allows a quick access to data and agile movement of them. This translates into higher performance and efficiency, and can address the growing real-time processing and storage needs of data-intensive applications such as telecommunications, of analysis and measurements, in the aerospace and defense sectors, and also in data centers, as it could not be otherwise.
Salil Raje, senior vice president and general manager of the Adaptive and Embedded Computing group at AMD, commented that:
“System architects are constantly trying to pack more data into smaller spaces and move it more efficiently between different parts of the system. “Our latest addition to the Versal Gen 2 portfolio helps customers improve overall system performance and memory resource utilization to achieve maximum performance and unlock insights for their most demanding applications from the cloud to the edge.”
PCIe Gen6 interface allows for improved speed per line between two and four times greater than that of other FPGAs that are considered direct competition. It should also be noted that the CXL 3.1 standard offers double the bandwidth than CXL 2.1, maintaining similar latency and offering improved coherence.
Los SoCs AMD Versal Premium Series Gen 2 can be paired with an AMD EPYC CPU, which will allow us to improve system capabilities in data-intensive applications and memory coherence to achieve world-class heterogeneous computing without any sacrifice.
AMD has also confirmed that the new Versal Premium Series Gen 2 SoCs have important security improvementsamong which we can highlight the support of PCIe Integrity and Data Encryption (IDE), online encryption integrated into DDR memory controllers and 400G high-speed encryption engines. The latter is especially important, because it not only helps protect user data, but also makes it twice as fast, allowing for faster secure data transactions.
AMD Versal Premium Series Gen 2 development tools will be available in the second quarter of 2025, and silicon samples in early 2026. The first shipments are expected to occur in the second half of 2026.
