AMD announces Versal Premium VP1902, the world's largest adaptive SoC for semiconductor verification, leveraging chiplet technology.

The latest offering from AMD, the Versal Premium VP1902, is designed to streamline the verification process of semiconductor designs. The company plans to provide preliminary samples in the third quarter of 2023, with official shipments expected to commence in the first half of 2024.

The Versal Premium VP1902 is an adaptive SoC specifically developed to support chip manufacturing and development, catering to the increasing complexity of AI workloads. With its utilization of chiplet technology as a high-performance emulation device, it enables faster semiconductor verification. This allows developers to verify designs early in the development cycle, facilitating software development before silicon tape-out and expediting the introduction of next-generation technologies to the market.

Compared to its predecessor, the Virtex UltraScale+ VU19P FPGA, the Versal Premium VP1902 boasts significant improvements. It achieves 18.5M logic cells, doubling the density and total I/O bandwidth, earning the distinction of being the "world's largest adaptive SoC." The Versal architecture utilized in this device enhances debugging capabilities, enabling up to eight times faster debugging than the previous generation.

The Versal Premium VP1902 introduces new features such as automatic design closure assistance, interactive design tuning, and real-time multi-user remote debugging. These advancements contribute to a significant reduction in the time required for the IC iterative design process.