AMD has added two new low-cost, low-power members to its UltraScale+ family with the Artix UltraScale+ AU7P FPGA and the Zynq UltraScale+ ZU3T MPSoC.
Both devices are manufactured with the 16nm FinFET process and offer entry points to the transceiver-based UltraScale+ family with features such as high I/O-to-logic density, UltraRAM, DSP, and more.
AMD Artix UltraScale+ AU7P FPGA
The new AU7P FPGA is the smallest from the Artix UltraScale+ family with four 12.5Gbps transceivers, up to 82K system logic cells, 216 DSP slices, 4.9 Mbit RAM, and 248 I/Os. It is offered in a 10.5 x 8.5mm InFO package. The company says the chip provides up to 50% lower static power, 20% more I/O-to-logic ratio, and twice as many 3.3V HDIO compared to the AU10P device.
AMD Zynq UltraScale+ ZU3T MPSoC
The ZU3T is not the smallest Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC, but the keyword here is “transceiver”, and it is indeed the smallest transceiver-based chip from the UltraScale+ MPSoC family. it is available as a CG device with a dual-core Cortex-A53 CPU, dual-core Cortex-R5F real-time CPU, up to 157K system logic cells, 21.2 Mbit RAM, 576 DSP slices, eight 16.3Gbps or 12.5Gbps transceivers, as well as 1x PCIe Gen 3 x8 interface and up to 124 I/O pins.
The ZU3T can also be found as an EG device with a quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU, dual-core Cortex-R5F real-time CPU, an Arm Mali-400 MP2 GPU, and just like the ZU3T CG SKU up to 157K system logic cells, 21.2 Mbit RAM, 576 DSP slices, eight transceivers, as well as 1x PCIe Gen 3 x8 interface and up to 124 I/O pins.
The ZU3T device is described as a hybrid between the UltraScale+ ZU3 and ZU4 MPSoC. It consumes 37% less static power than the ZU3T, and offers 5 times the transceiver bandwidth of the ZU3 device, together with a higher DSP slice count (1.6x) and memory-to-logic ratio (2.5x).
Additional information may also be found in a blog post on Xilinx’s website.
Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.
AMD and low cost in the same sentence does not sound right at all, I was curious to see it isn’t something appealing to the regular user xD.
Try harder AMD 🙂