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AMD is the worldwide leader in adaptive and intelligent computing with more than 30 years heritage serving the Aerospace & Defense market. Building on their highly successful 65nm Virtex-5QV space-grade devices, AMD has introduced 20nm Radiation Tolerant (RT) Kintex® UltraScale™ XQRKU060 FPGA and the new 7nm Space-Grade Versal XQR Adaptive SoCs. XQRKU060 delivers full radiation tolerance and ultra-high throughput and bandwidth performance for satellite and space applications. The XQRKU060 FPGA provides true unlimited on-orbit reconfiguration, over a 10x increase in digital signal processing (DSP) performance – ideal for payload applications – and full radiation tolerance across all orbits. And Versal adaptive SoCs combine adaptable processing of the programmable logics and acceleration engines with leading-edge memory and interfacing technologies to deliver customized, powerful heterogeneous acceleration for any application.
NASAM is thrilled to work as AMD’s dedicated space market distributor serving the Japanese satellite industry.
Target Applications
Navigation
Navigation: Solution with unlimited reprogramming cycles from AMD allows increased lifetimes far beyond 10 years for system navigation satellites that provide autonomous geo-spatial positioning. Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers require high speed processing which can be enabled by high compute SRAM FPGAs.
New Space / Space 2.0
The commercialization of space has led to a wealth of new opportunities. AMD offers scalable solutions to cover New Space applications. The ability to deliver qualified, off-the-shelf devices can help maximize time-to-market, and makes AMD a perfect choice for New Space designs.
Communication
Transponders powered by AMD technology offer high reliability with maximized performance. The On-Board Processing capability of space-grade FPGAs simplifies the ground station signal handling by performing digitalization of data and beamforming in orbit.
Earth Observation
Increasing need of Earth Observation satellites to process high resolution optical images or radar sensory data can be resolved with highly adaptive compute AMD FPGAs. Onboard image compression real-time preprocessing requires a high number of DSPs
Deep Space
With a strong heritage in Deep Space adoption, AMD continues to deliver capable technology for applications beyond Earth’s orbit. Take advantage of the technology, IP, and Partner ecosystem from AMD to help maximize your innovation
Space FPGA portfolio
AMD VersalTM XQR Adaptive SoCs
The Space-Grade (XQR) Versal Devices are a continuation of AMD ultra-high throughput, machine learning capable, and high-bandwidth Versal™ Adaptive SoCs, offering reconfigurability dedicated to satellite and space applications. The Versal XQR Series is targeted for onboard processing payload applications with a dramatic increase in system logic cells, onboard SRAM, and multi-gigabit transceiver bandwidth to enable vector-based algorithms and high-speed signal processing. Building on AMD space heritage, these devices advance the space industry by supporting multiple process nodes, setting a new standard for reconfigurable solutions in space.
AMD Versal AI Edge XQR Series
- AI engines optimized for ML inferencing
- Low power consumption and low latency
- Small form factor packaging
AMD Versal AI Core XQR Series
- Heterogeneous computing architecture featuring vector, scalar, and DSP compute resources
- AI engines optimized for signal processing and ML inferencing applications
- Optimized for complex matrix multiplications
Versal ™ XQR Devices – Resources & Packaging
| Category | Device Name | XQRVC1902-1MSBVSRA2197 | XQRVE2302-1MSB8SSRA784 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Engine | AI Engines Tiles | 400 (AIE) | 34 (AIE-ML) |
| AI Engine Data Memory (Mb) | 100 | 17 | |
| AIE-ML Shared Memory (Mb) | – | 68 | |
| DSP Engines | 1968 | 464 | |
| Programmable Logic | System Logic Cells (K) | 1968 | 329 |
| LUTs | 899840 | 150272 | |
| NoC Master / NoC Slave Ports | 28 | 5 | |
| Memory | Distributed RAM (Mb) | 27 | 4.6 |
| Total Block RAM (Mb) | 34 | 5.4 | |
| UltraRAM (Mb) | 130 | 43.6 | |
| Accelerator RAM (Mb) | – | 32 | |
| Total PL Memory (Mb) | 191 | 86 | |
| DDR Memory Controllers | 4 | 1 | |
| DDR Bus Width | 256 | 64 | |
| Processing System | Application Processing Unit | Dual-core Arm Cortex-A72; 48 KB/32 KB L1 Cache w/ECC; 1 MB L2 Cache w/ ECC | Dual-core Arm Cortex-R5F; 32 KB/32 KB L1 Cache; 256 KB TCM w/ECC |
| Real-time Processing Unit | 256 KB On-Chip Memory w/ECC | 256 KB On-Chip Memory w/ECC | |
| Memory | 256 KB On-Chip Memory w/ECC | 256 KB On-Chip Memory w/ECC | |
| Serial Transceivers | Gigabit Transceivers | Ethernet (2×2); UART (2x); CAN-FD (2x); USB 2.0 (1x); SPI (2x); I2C (2x) | 8 GTYP (26.5625 Gb/s) |
| Gigabit Transceivers | 44 GTY (26.5625 Gb/s) | 8 GTYP (26.5625 Gb/s) | |
| Integrated Protocol IP | PCIe* w/ DMA (CPM) | 1 x Gen4x8 | 1 x Gen4x8 |
| PCI Express* | 4 x Gen4x8 | 1 | |
| Platform | Multirate Ethernet MAC | 4 x Gen4x8 | 1 |
| Platform Management Controller | Boot, Security, Safety, Monitoring, High-Speed Debug, and SEU Mitigation (XilSEM) | Boot, Security, Safety, Monitoring, High-Speed Debug, and SEU Mitigation (XilSEM) | |
| Ruggedized Package | Organic BGA; Sn-Pb Solder Balls | VSRA2197; 45 mm x 45 mm; 0.92 mm pitch | SSRA784; 23 mm x 23 mm; 0.8 mm pitch |
| I/O | I/O | 648 XPIO, 44 HDIO, 78 MIO, 44 GTY | 216 XPIO, 22 HDIO, 78 MIO, 8 GTYP |
AMD Versal AI Edge XQR Data Sheet
AMD Versal AI Core XQR Data Sheet
AMD Radiation-Tolerant KintexTM UltraScaleTM XQRKU060 FPGA
AMD Kintex UltraScale XQR FPGAs are high-performance monolithic FPGAs with a focus on performance. High DSP and block RAM-to-logic ratios and next-generation transceivers combined with space-grade packaging to handle vibration and handling requirements for launch and operation enable a new generation of high-density FPGAs for on-orbit reconfiguration targeted for applications like on-board processing, digital payloads, remote sensing, and many more.
AMD Virtex 5QV FPGA
The only reprogrammable and highest density radiation-hardened (RH) FPGA, the space-grade Virtex®-5QV FPGA provides RH by design technology to meet the requirements of space applications that demand high-performance as well as high reliability. For years, ASICs were the only solution available to system designers of high-performance space applications with long development and fabrication times as well as high non-recurring engineering (NRE) costs. The Virtex-5QV FPGA combines unparalleled density, performance, and radiation hardening with the flexibility of reconfigurability without the high risk of ASICs.
A Virtex-5QV FPGA provides exceptional hardness to single-event upsets (SEUs), total immunity to single-event latch-ups (SELs), total ionizing doses (TIDs) of over 1 Mrad(Si), and datapath protection from single-event transients (SETs). Compatibility with the commercial and defense-grade Virtex-5 FPGAs allows for low-cost, rapid prototyping and easy design migration to flight hardware without the need for PCB changes.