Highlights｜ALINX Shares FPGA Hardware Solutions at AMD Adaptive Computing Summit

The AMD Adaptive Computing Summit (AMD ACS) was held in Shenzhen on July 23rd, focusing on the latest news of AMD Adaptive SoC and FPGA products, as well as cutting-edge techniques of design tools and development environments, which is a high-quality platform for hardware developers and engineers around the globe to have in-depth exchanges and learning.

As the only AMD Premier partner in China, ALINX was invited to participate in the summit to bring:

Sharing topics based on AMD Versal series FPGA hardware solutions.

Versal series core boards + development boards new product demonstration

High-end medical imaging, automated driving and other industry solutions.

At the summit, ALINX Senior FPGA Engineer Yajie Meng shared the topic of “ALINX Hardware Solutions Based on Versal Series”, focusing on ALINX's new V100 core board and VD100 development board based on the Versal series of chips, as well as the subsequent product development plan for the series, and explained how ALINX's hardware solutions based on the Versal series can empower customers to realize high-performance computing and innovative applications. He also explained how ALINX hardware solutions based on Versal series can empower customers and realize high-performance computing and innovative applications.

In the sharing session, ALINX also announced for the first time the FPGA modular product design concept, i.e., “core board + function board + FMC daughter card + IP matrix” flexible combinations, rapid formation of product power to meet the diversified product needs of customers.

In the first quarter of this year, ALINX released the first Versal AI Edge adaptive computing acceleration platform products in China: core board V100 and development board VD100.

The core board V100 utilizes the Versal AI Edge series VE2302 device, which is primarily targeted at AIE-ML applications, and supports higher compute performance and lower latency, providing high-performance, low-latency AI inferencing for real-time systems for autonomous driving, predictive factory and healthcare systems, multi-tasking loads in aerospace, and a wide range of other applications.

The development board VD100 provides a variety of interfaces such as Ethernet, UART, PCIe x4, USB 2.0, MIPI, LVDS, optical fiber, etc., which greatly enhances the expandability and flexibility of the system. In addition, the removable core board + base board design mode also facilitates enterprises to carry out secondary development and verification.

At the summit, ALINX also demonstrated a new FPGA+GPU heterogeneous medical imaging solution - “Endoscopy and Surgical Robotics Solution”.

The solution is developed based on the new Z19-M, FPGA+GPU heterogeneous video image processing development platform, which supports HD video image acquisition, processing, and 8K HD video image display, and also provides highly efficient 3D image processing capabilities.

The advanced synchronization technology ensures that the video data of the left and right eyes are synchronized with an accuracy of 1 line, and the end-to-end latency is controlled within 50 milliseconds, which significantly improves real-time performance and response speed. The outstanding performance of this solution provides doctors with clearer, more stereoscopic and more accurate visual information, thus enhancing the precision and safety of minimally invasive surgery.

Since its establishment in 2012, ALINX has successfully launched more than 100 FPGA SoM modules and supporting development boards, covering AMD Versal SoC, Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC, Zynq 7000, Kintex UltraScale, Kintex-7, Artix-7, Spartan-7 and other series. Zynq 7000, Kintex UltraScale, Kintex-7, Artix-7, Spartan-7, and many other series to meet the diversified needs of low, medium, and high-end markets.

Through comprehensive products and services such as standard hardware products + full-stack design services + vertical industry solutions, ALINX has been committed to assisting customers in managing project costs and risks, shortening time-to-market, and providing all-around technical support from device selection, architectural design to the realization of high-level functions, which helps customers to stand out from the crowd in the fiercely competitive market.