{"id":62526,"date":"2021-04-20T22:11:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T20:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/?p=62526"},"modified":"2021-04-20T22:12:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T20:12:10","slug":"xilinx-introduces-kria-portfolio-of-adaptive-system-on-modules-for-accelerating-innovation-and-ai-applications-at-the-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/62526-xilinx-introduces-kria-portfolio-of-adaptive-system-on-modules-for-accelerating-innovation-and-ai-applications-at-the-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Xilinx Introduces Kria Portfolio of Adaptive System-on-Modules for Accelerating Innovation and AI<\/span> Applications at the Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apr 20, 2021<\/p>\n

Pro\u00adduc\u00adtion-rea\u00addy embedded boards and low-cost deve\u00adlo\u00adper kit acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adte design cycles for rapid deploy\u00adment; initi\u00adal pro\u00adducts tar\u00adget visi\u00adon AI<\/span> appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons in smart cities and factories<\/i><\/p>\n

SAN<\/span> JOSE<\/span>, Calif.\u2013(BUSINESS<\/span> WIRE<\/span>)\u2013 Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ<\/span>: XLNX<\/span>) today intro\u00addu\u00adced the Kria\u2122 port\u00adfo\u00adlio of adap\u00adti\u00adve sys\u00adtem-on-modu\u00adles (SOMs), pro\u00adduc\u00adtion-rea\u00addy small form fac\u00adtor embedded boards that enable rapid deploy\u00adment in edge-based appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons. Cou\u00adpled with a com\u00adple\u00adte soft\u00adware stack and pre-built, pro\u00adduc\u00adtion-gra\u00adde acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adted appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons, Kria adap\u00adti\u00adve SOMs are a new method of brin\u00adging adap\u00adti\u00adve com\u00adpu\u00adting to AI<\/span> and soft\u00adware developers.<\/p>\n

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The first pro\u00adduct available in the Kria SOM<\/span> port\u00adfo\u00adlio, the Kria K26<\/span> SOM<\/span><\/a>, spe\u00adci\u00adfi\u00adcal\u00adly tar\u00adgets visi\u00adon AI<\/span> appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons in smart cities and smart fac\u00adto\u00adries. The Xilinx\u00ae SOM<\/span> road\u00admap includes a full ran\u00adge of pro\u00adducts, from cost-opti\u00admi\u00adzed SOMs for size and cost-cons\u00adtrai\u00adned appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons to hig\u00adher per\u00adfor\u00admance modu\u00adles that will offer deve\u00adlo\u00adpers more real-time com\u00adpu\u00adte capa\u00adbi\u00adli\u00adty per watt.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Xilinx\u2019s ent\u00adrance into the bur\u00adgeo\u00adning SOM<\/span> mar\u00adket builds on our evo\u00adlu\u00adti\u00adon bey\u00adond the chip-level busi\u00adness that began with our Alveo boards for the data cen\u00adter and con\u00adti\u00adnues with the intro\u00adduc\u00adtion of com\u00adple\u00adte board-level solu\u00adti\u00adons for embedded sys\u00adtems,\u201d said Kirk Saban, vice pre\u00adsi\u00addent, Pro\u00adduct and Plat\u00adform Mar\u00adke\u00adting at Xilinx. \u201cThe Kria SOM<\/span> port\u00adfo\u00adlio expands our mar\u00adket reach into more edge appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons and will make the power of adap\u00adta\u00adble hard\u00adware acces\u00adsi\u00adble to mil\u00adli\u00adons of soft\u00adware and AI<\/span> developers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Accor\u00adding to indus\u00adtry reports, the SOM<\/span> mar\u00adket is gro\u00adwing at rough\u00adly 11 per\u00adcent annu\u00adal\u00adly and total mar\u00adket reve\u00adnue is expec\u00adted to reach $2.3 bil\u00adli\u00adon by 20251<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Fas\u00adter Time to Deployment<\/b><\/p>\n

Kria SOMs harness the power, per\u00adfor\u00admance and fle\u00adxi\u00adbi\u00adli\u00adty advan\u00adta\u00adges of Xilinx adap\u00adta\u00adble hard\u00adware, deli\u00adver\u00aded as pro\u00adduc\u00adtion-deploya\u00adble, adap\u00adti\u00adve modu\u00adles. Kria SOMs enable rapid deploy\u00adment by pro\u00advi\u00adding an end-to-end board-level solu\u00adti\u00adon with a pre-built soft\u00adware stack. By allo\u00adwing deve\u00adlo\u00adpers to start at a more evol\u00adved point in the design cycle com\u00adpared to chip-down design, Kria SOMs can redu\u00adce time-to-deploy\u00adment by up to nine months.<\/p>\n

The Kria K26<\/span> SOM<\/span> is built on top of the Zynq\u00ae UltraS\u00adca\u00adle+\u2122 MPSoC<\/a> archi\u00adtec\u00adtu\u00adre, which fea\u00adtures a quad-core Arm\u00ae Cortex\u2122-A53 pro\u00adces\u00adsor, more than 250 thousand logic cells, and a H.264\/265 video codec. The SOM<\/span> also fea\u00adtures 4GB<\/span> of DDR4<\/span> memo\u00adry and 245 IOs, which allow it to adapt to vir\u00adtual\u00adly any sen\u00adsor or inter\u00adface. With 1.4 tera-ops of AI<\/span> com\u00adpu\u00adte, the Kria K26<\/span> SOM<\/span> enables deve\u00adlo\u00adpers to crea\u00adte visi\u00adon AI<\/span> appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons offe\u00adring more than 3X<\/span> hig\u00adher per\u00adfor\u00admance at lower laten\u00adcy and power com\u00adpared to GPU-based SOMs, cri\u00adti\u00adcal for smart visi\u00adon appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons like secu\u00adri\u00adty, traf\u00adfic and city came\u00adras, retail ana\u00adly\u00adtics, machi\u00adne visi\u00adon, and visi\u00adon gui\u00added robotics.<\/p>\n

Enab\u00adling Mil\u00adli\u00adons of Soft\u00adware Developers<\/b><\/p>\n

Xilinx has inves\u00adted hea\u00advi\u00adly in its tool flows to make adap\u00adti\u00adve com\u00adpu\u00adting more acces\u00adsi\u00adble to AI<\/span> and soft\u00adware deve\u00adlo\u00adpers wit\u00adhout hard\u00adware exper\u00adti\u00adse. The Kria SOM<\/span> port\u00adfo\u00adlio takes this acces\u00adsi\u00adbi\u00adli\u00adty to the next level by cou\u00adpling the hard\u00adware and soft\u00adware plat\u00adform with pro\u00adduc\u00adtion-rea\u00addy visi\u00adon acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adted appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons. The\u00adse turn\u00adkey appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons eli\u00admi\u00adna\u00adte all the FPGA<\/span> hard\u00adware design work and only requi\u00adre soft\u00adware deve\u00adlo\u00adpers to inte\u00adgra\u00adte their cus\u00adtom AI<\/span> models, appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adon code, and optio\u00adnal\u00adly modi\u00adfy the visi\u00adon pipe\u00adline \u2013 using fami\u00adli\u00adar design envi\u00adron\u00adments, such as Ten\u00adsor\u00adFlow, Pytorch or Caf\u00adfe frame\u00adworks, as well as C, C++, Open\u00adCL\u2122, and Python pro\u00adgramming languages\u2014enabled by the Vitis\u2122<\/a> uni\u00adfied soft\u00adware deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment plat\u00adform and libraries.<\/p>\n

With this new acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adted-appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adon para\u00addigm for soft\u00adware-based design, Xilinx is announ\u00adcing the first embedded app store for edge appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons<\/a>. Buil\u00adding out bey\u00adond its Alveo\u2122 cata\u00adlog of apps for data cen\u00adter, the Xilinx App Store<\/a> now offers cus\u00adto\u00admers a wide sel\u00adec\u00adtion of apps for Kria SOMs from Xilinx and its eco\u00adsys\u00adtem part\u00adners. Xilinx offe\u00adrings are open source acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adted appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons, pro\u00advi\u00added at no-char\u00adge, and ran\u00adge from smart came\u00adra track\u00ading and face detec\u00adtion to natu\u00adral lan\u00adguage pro\u00adces\u00adsing with smart vision.<\/p>\n

Kria SOMs also enable cus\u00adto\u00admiza\u00adti\u00adon and opti\u00admiza\u00adti\u00adon for embedded deve\u00adlo\u00adpers with sup\u00adport for stan\u00addard Yoc\u00adto-based Peta\u00adLi\u00adnux and, for the first time ever, Xilinx is announ\u00adcing a coming col\u00adla\u00adbo\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon with Cano\u00adni\u00adcal to pro\u00advi\u00adde Ubun\u00adtu Linux sup\u00adport, the high\u00adly popu\u00adlar Linux dis\u00adtri\u00adbu\u00adti\u00adon used by AI<\/span> deve\u00adlo\u00adpers. This offers wide\u00adspread fami\u00adlia\u00adri\u00adty with AI<\/span> deve\u00adlo\u00adpers and inter\u00adope\u00adra\u00adbi\u00adli\u00adty with exis\u00adting appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons. Cus\u00adto\u00admers can deve\u00adlop in eit\u00adher envi\u00adron\u00adment and take eit\u00adher approach to pro\u00adduc\u00adtion. Both envi\u00adron\u00adments will come pre-built with a soft\u00adware infra\u00adstruc\u00adtu\u00adre and hel\u00adpful utilities.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>For smart visi\u00adon appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons, deve\u00adlo\u00adpers and inno\u00adva\u00adtors want the Ubun\u00adtu expe\u00adri\u00adence they\u2019\u00adre used to from cloud to desk\u00adtop,\u201d said Thibaut Rouf\u00adfi\u00adneau, vice pre\u00adsi\u00addent of mar\u00adke\u00adting, Canonical\/Ubuntu. \u201cTog\u00ade\u00adther with Xilinx, we\u2019re exci\u00adted to pro\u00advi\u00adde Kria SOM<\/span> cus\u00adto\u00admers with out-of-the-box pro\u00adduc\u00adti\u00advi\u00adty, fric\u00adtion\u00adless tran\u00adsi\u00adti\u00adon from deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment to pro\u00adduc\u00adtion, and gua\u00adran\u00adteed sta\u00adbi\u00adli\u00adty and secu\u00adri\u00adty in the field.\u201d<\/p>\n

Out-of-the-Box Rea\u00addy, Low-cost Deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment Kit<\/b><\/p>\n

The Kria KV260<\/span> Visi\u00adon AI<\/span> Star\u00adter Kit<\/a> pro\u00advi\u00addes an afforda\u00adble and easy-to-use deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment plat\u00adform for desig\u00adning visi\u00adon appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons, right out of the box. The kit is pur\u00adpo\u00adse-built to sup\u00adport acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adted visi\u00adon appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons available in the Xilinx App Store and is an excel\u00adlent way to get up and run\u00adning in less than an hour with no know\u00adledge of FPGAs or FPGA<\/span> tools.<\/p>\n

Part of the Kria deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment expe\u00adri\u00adence is a self-enab\u00adled path for explo\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon, design, and ulti\u00adm\u00adate\u00adly pro\u00adduc\u00adtion deploy\u00adment through a vast set of online resour\u00adce. Hob\u00adby\u00adists, makers, and com\u00admer\u00adcial deve\u00adlo\u00adpers ali\u00adke can acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adte through each pha\u00adse of the design cycle with tuto\u00adri\u00adal vide\u00ados, trai\u00adning cour\u00adses, and a vast eco\u00adsys\u00adtem of pro\u00advi\u00adders offe\u00adring acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adted appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons, design ser\u00advices, and more.<\/p>\n

Pri\u00adcing and Availability<\/b><\/p>\n

The Kria KV260<\/span> Visi\u00adon AI<\/span> Star\u00adter Kit<\/a> is pri\u00adced at a low $199. When rea\u00addy to move to deploy\u00adment, cus\u00adto\u00admers can seam\u00adless\u00adly tran\u00adsi\u00adti\u00adon to the Kria K26<\/span> pro\u00adduc\u00adtion SOM<\/span>, inclu\u00adding com\u00admer\u00adcial<\/a> and indus\u00adtri\u00adal<\/a> vari\u00adants pri\u00adced at $250 or $350, respectively.<\/p>\n

Kria K26<\/span> SOMs and the KV260<\/span> Visi\u00adon AI<\/span> Star\u00adter Kit are imme\u00addia\u00adte\u00adly ordera\u00adble from Xilinx and its net\u00adwork of world\u00adwi\u00adde dis\u00adtri\u00adbu\u00adtors. The KV260<\/span> Visi\u00adon Star\u00adter Kit is available imme\u00addia\u00adte\u00adly, with the com\u00admer\u00adcial-gra\u00adde Kria K26<\/span> SOM<\/span> ship\u00adping in May of 2021 and the indus\u00adtri\u00adal-gra\u00adde K26<\/span> SOM<\/span> ship\u00adping this sum\u00admer. Ubun\u00adtu Linux on Kria K26<\/span> SOMs is expec\u00adted to be available in July of 2021. For more infor\u00adma\u00adti\u00adon, visit www.xilinx.com\/kria<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fol\u00adlow Xilinx on Twit\u00adter<\/a>, Lin\u00adke\u00addIn<\/a> and Face\u00adbook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About Xilinx<\/b><\/p>\n

Xilinx, Inc. deve\u00adlo\u00adps high\u00adly fle\u00adxi\u00adble and adap\u00adti\u00adve pro\u00adces\u00adsing plat\u00adforms that enable rapid inno\u00adva\u00adti\u00adon across a varie\u00adty of tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgies \u2014 from the cloud, to the edge, to the end\u00adpoint. Xilinx is the inven\u00adtor of the FPGA<\/span> and Adap\u00adti\u00adve SoCs (inclu\u00adding our Adap\u00adti\u00adve Com\u00adpu\u00adte Acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon Plat\u00adform, or ACAP<\/span>), desi\u00adgned to deli\u00adver the most dyna\u00admic com\u00adpu\u00adting tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgy in the indus\u00adtry. We col\u00adla\u00adbo\u00adra\u00adte with our cus\u00adto\u00admers to crea\u00adte sca\u00adlable, dif\u00adfe\u00adren\u00adtia\u00adted and intel\u00adli\u00adgent solu\u00adti\u00adons that enables the adap\u00adta\u00adble, intel\u00adli\u00adgent and con\u00adnec\u00adted world of the future. For more infor\u00adma\u00adti\u00adon, visit xilinx.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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  1. Source: QYR<\/span> Elec\u00adtro\u00adnics Rese\u00adarch Cen\u00adter, \u201cGlo\u00adbal Sys\u00adtem on Modu\u00adle SOM<\/span> Mar\u00adket Report, Histo\u00adry and Fore\u00adcast 2014\u20132025\u201d, July 2019.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u00a9 Copy\u00adright 2021 Xilinx, Inc. Xilinx, the Xilinx logo, Alveo, Kria, UltraS\u00adca\u00adle, Vitis, Zynq and other desi\u00adgna\u00adted brands included her\u00adein are trade\u00admarks of Xilinx in the United Sta\u00adtes and other count\u00adries. Arm and Cor\u00adtex are regis\u00adtered trade\u00admarks of Arm Limi\u00adt\u00aded in the EU<\/span> and other count\u00adries. Open\u00adCL is a trade\u00admark of Apple Inc and used by per\u00admis\u00adsi\u00adon by Khro\u00adnos. All other trade\u00admarks are the pro\u00adper\u00adty of their respec\u00adti\u00adve owners.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Apr 20, 2021<\/p>\n

    Pro\u00adduc\u00adtion-rea\u00addy embedded boards and low-cost deve\u00adlo\u00adper kit acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adte design cycles for rapid deploy\u00adment; initi\u00adal pro\u00adducts tar\u00adget visi\u00adon AI<\/span> appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons in smart cities and factories<\/i><\/p>\n

    SAN<\/span> JOSE<\/span>, Calif.\u2013(BUSINESS<\/span> WIRE<\/span>)\u2013 Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ<\/span>: XLNX<\/span>) today intro\u00addu\u00adced the Kria\u2122 port\u00adfo\u00adlio of adap\u00adti\u00adve sys\u00adtem-on-modu\u00adles (SOMs), pro\u00adduc\u00adtion-rea\u00addy small form fac\u00adtor embedded boards that enable rapid deploy\u00adment in edge-based appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons. Cou\u00adpled with a com\u00adple\u00adte soft\u00adware stack and pre-built, pro\u00adduc\u00adtion-gra\u00adde acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adted appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons, Kria adap\u00adti\u00adve SOMs are a new method of brin\u00adging adap\u00adti\u00adve com\u00adpu\u00adting to AI<\/span> and soft\u00adware deve\u00adlo\u00adpers. (\u2026) Wei\u00adter\u00adle\u00adsen \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":593,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[2558,1583],"class_list":["post-62526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pressemitteilungen","tag-som","tag-xilinx","entry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/593"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62528,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62526\/revisions\/62528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planet3dnow.de\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}