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AMD NPU and Xilinx Versal AI Engines Signal Processing in Radio Astronomy (2024) [pdf] (git.astron.nl)
CheeksTheGeek 3 hours ago [-]
WHY ARE VERSAL BOARDS SO EXPENSIVE (i had to rant somewhere)

I’m waiting for the similar cost reduction that happened to Ultrascale+ devices and we finally got something like the ZuBoard

fargle 2 hours ago [-]
Versal "edge" VE2302 boards are coming from multiple vendors. much better pricing.

i'm guessing they will be available in a month or so - they are supposed to "Q2" but seem to be a little bit late (as is typical).

fecal_henge 58 minutes ago [-]
Are the boards significantly more expensive than the devices?
transpute 6 minutes ago [-]
$160 Zuboard entry to 5-figure Zynq market, https://news.avnet.com/press-releases/press-release-details/...

> the smallest, lowest power, and most cost-optimized member of the Zynq UltraScale+ family.. jump-start.. MPSoC-based end systems like miniaturized, compute-intensive edge applications in industrial and healthcare IoT systems, embedded vision cameras, AV-over-IP 4K and 8K-ready streaming, hand-held test equipment, consumer, medical applications and more.. board is ideal for design engineers, software engineers, system architects, hobbyists, makers and even students

almostgotcaught 9 minutes ago [-]
The title is editorialized: this has nothing to do with NPU (it does not appear in the PDF), which is the term of art for the version of these cores that are sold in laptops.
OneDeuxTriSeiGo 4 minutes ago [-]
The Versal AI Engine is the NPU. And the Ryzen CPUs NPU is almost exactly a Versal AI Engine IP block to the point that in the Linux kernel they share the same driver (amdxdna) and the reference material the kernel docs link to for the Ryzen NPUs is the Versal SoC's AI Engine architecture reference manual

https://docs.kernel.org/next/accel/amdxdna/amdnpu.html

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