AMD & Xilinx Introduce the Versal HBM Series VHK158 Evaluation Kit

[T0@st]

Introducing the Versal HBM Series VHK158 Evaluation Kit. This features the Versal HBM series VH1582 device, which integrates multi-Tbps High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), hardened connectivity IP, and adaptive compute in a single device, eliminating the bottlenecks between memory, I/O, and compute while delivering up to 6 times more memory bandwidth.

The VHK158 evaluation kit is an evaluation platform for the Versal HBM series VH1582 device designed to keep up with the higher memory needs of compute intensive, memory bound applications, providing adaptable acceleration for data center, wired networking, test & measurement, and aerospace & defense applications. The VHK158 board's primary focus is to enable demonstration and evaluation of the VH1582 silicon and support customer application development




This video highlights the key onboard interfaces and components as well as accessories that the VHK158 evaluation kit provides:

Key Features and Benefits

• 32G HBM memory
• 112G PAM4 transceivers
• QSFP28 and QSFP-DD connectors for optical communication
• PCIe Gen5x8 and Gen 3/4 x16 support
• 32 GB (2x 16 GB), 72-bit DDR4 DIMM @ 3200 Mbps
• FMC+ connector with 8 GTYPs and 68 user-defined signals
• System Controller with BEAM (web-based GUI user interface application)

Featured AMD Devices
Featuring the Versal HBM XCVH1582-2MSEVSVA3697 Adaptive SoC



More details can be found here.

View at TechPowerUp Main Site | Source

 

[ixi]

So, what is the usage for this?

 

[R0H1T]

So, what is the usage for this?

I'm sure you would've heard the name of probably the market leader in this space?

Xilinx Versal HBM Announced with High-speed Memory

Xilinx Versal HBM brings HBM2e by swapping out a SLR in its Versal ACAP architecture to feed higher-bandwidth applications

www.servethehome.com

AMD VP1902 is Leviathan FPGA Doubling the Previous-Gen Largest FPGA

Built around for chiplets, the new AMD VP1902 is an enormous FPGA that doubles the previous generation's biggest FPGA's capabilities

www.servethehome.com

And in case you missed it ~

The VHK158 board's primary focus is to enable demonstration and evaluation of the VH1582 silicon and support customer application development

 

[LabRat 891]

So, what is the usage for this?

AFAIK, eval kits in general are for testing and developing integrated solutions before setting up mass-orders for the core ASIC, FPGA, etc.

The extreme memory bandwidth and mentioned AI/MI "Data and Signal Processing", means 'data fusion' to me.
In aerospace-defense Radar, that could be for fusing multiple sensor-streams into a sort of 'more than the sum of its parts' generative Sensing Suite.