Micron Xccela™ Flash Adopted by Xilinx to Accelerate Performance of Artificial Intelligence Applications
30 September 2019 - 11:00PM
Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), an industry leader in
innovative memory and storage solutions, today announced that it is
working with Xilinx to boost the boot and dynamic configuration
performance of Xilinx’s Versal™ platform, the industry’s first
adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP). ACAP, a new category
of heterogeneous compute devices, will use Micron Xccela™ flash and
other Micron memory solutions to reduce system startup times and
increase system responsiveness in automotive, industrial,
networking and consumer applications that use artificial
intelligence (AI).
“Xilinx’s choice to support Xccela flash in its Versal ACAP is a
testament to the growing importance of bandwidth for memory and
storage used in artificial intelligence applications,” said Richard
De Caro, director of NOR flash for Micron’s Embedded Business Unit.
“As autonomous driving vehicles incorporate higher levels of
artificial intelligence inference capabilities into advanced
driver-assistance systems (ADAS), Xccela flash enables Versal
ACAP-based systems to power up and configure rapidly to meet ADAS
application requirements.”
The rising complexity of AI and machine learning systems is
driving an ever greater need to complement processing power with
more memory and storage for faster data processing. Increased
amounts of memory and storage help avoid performance and throughput
bottlenecks while transforming vast amounts of data into insights.
Applications such as autonomous driving that rely on multiple
displays and sensors have an additional need for “instant on” and
quick reset or reboot capability to ensure timely delivery of
information for decision-making. By working together, Micron and
Xilinx aim to develop heterogenous compute platforms with low
latency that address the demanding compute and data processing
requirements of AI applications.
“Our Versal ACAP customers are developing compute-intensive,
often safety-critical applications,” said Sumit Shah, senior
director of FPGA, SoC and ACAP product marketing and management at
Xilinx. “Micron embodies the excellence we seek in our partners.
And with Micron’s innovative Octal SPI Xccela flash, developers can
meet their near-instant-on requirements and take full advantage of
Versal ACAP’s adaptable, dynamically configurable hardware for
their next-generation platforms.”
Xilinx Versal ACAP is built for AI inference in emerging
applications of data center, automotive, 5G infrastructure,
aerospace, defense, and test and measurement. Using the Xccela bus
interface, a JEDEC xSPI-compliant standard developed and promoted
by the Xccela Consortium, Xilinx Versal ACAP increases boot and
configuration performance by eight times, compared to
prior-generation FPGA platforms using quad serial peripheral
interface (SPI) NOR flash. Xccela flash delivers up to 400
megabytes per second in double data rate mode while consuming 30%
less effective energy per bit over traditional quad SPI NOR
flash.
Xccela flash expands Micron’s leading-edge 45 nm NOR flash
portfolio of solutions, which are manufactured at its wafer
fabrication facility in Manassas, Virginia. Micron’s Xccela flash
product family meets the Automotive Electronics Council
qualification standard (AEC-Q100), supporting temperature ranges
from -40 C to 125 C and densities from 256Mb to 2Gb. All
densities and temperature ranges are available for ordering in
volume quantities.
In addition to Xccela flash, Micron will provide support for
Xilinx Versal ACAPs through other portfolio solutions, including
its DDR4, LPDDR4X, e.MMC 5.1 and serial NOR products.
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