Xilinx announces the industry's first All Programmable multi-processor SoC

     Xilinx announced the start of production of the industry's first All-programmable multiprocessor SoC (MPSoC) using TSMC's 16nm FF+ process. It is also developed for embedded vision systems such as ADAS, driverless cars, Industrial Internet of Things (I-IoT) and 5G wireless systems. The All Programmable Zynq® UltraScale+™MPSoC offers five times more system-level performance and power, supports arbitrary connectivity, and delivers the security and confidentiality required by next-generation systems.

     As the world's first heterogeneous multiprocessing SoC, the new device integrates seven user-programmable processors, including a quad-core 64-bit ARM® Cortex™-A53 application processor, a dual-core 32-bit ARM® Cortex™-R5 real-time processor, and an ARM® Mali™-400 graphics processor. The Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC family also includes a number of integrated peripherals with security and confidentiality features, as well as advanced power management capabilities. Combined with the recently launched SDSoC™ development environment, this latest family of devices can support both software-defined and hardware-optimized systems.

     Victor Peng, Executive vice President and general Manager of Programmable Products at Xilinx, said: "Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC provides the perfect combination of software intelligence, hardware optimization, security and privacy, and arbitrary connectivity for the next generation of smart connected applications. "Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC is tailored to meet the unique needs of the development of next-generation embedded vision systems such as ADAS, driverless cars, industrial iot and 5G wireless systems, as well as many other applications."

     Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC is specifically tailored for the next generation of embedded vision systems, including industrial machine vision, surveillance and automotive ADAS systems. For ADAS applications, Zynq MPSoC closely combines highly parallelized hardware image processing and analysis acceleration with software-based algorithm configuration and control. Maximize throughput and reduce latency by increasing the memory required for video buffering with UltraRAM™; These are all important attributes of ADAS. Finally, to enable real-time safety-critical game decisions and initialize actuator commands, the Zynq MPSoC ARM with a dual-core Cortex-R5 engine can operate in lock-step mode, while cross-monitoring and diagnostic protection voting are added to the programmable architecture. Zynq MPSoC has been designed with the automotive ISO-26262 functional safety standard in mind, while providing a scalable and highly customizable programmable platform that enables customers to design for the future in the rapidly changing ADAS application landscape.

     For industrial iot, the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC family is ideal for integrated data acquisition, performing real-time diagnostics and supporting local decision making in intelligent, connected control systems. The MPSoC processing subsystem, the UltraScale™ programmable logic architecture, and the new UltraRAM™ on-chip memory technology come together to create an ideal platform that not only handles large amounts of analytical data, but also manages real-time machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. In addition, with a dedicated security processing unit and a dual-core Cortex-R5 engine configured for lock-in, Zynq MPSoC meets SIL3 functional security and confidentiality requirements.

     Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC devices meet the increasing radio and baseband processing requirements of next-generation 5G systems, such as support for new "massive MIMO" and adaptive beamforming architectures, CloudRAN L1 baseband acceleration, and related outbound applications. Moreover, it can flexibly support multiple standards and multiple frequency bands while significantly reducing power consumption. The Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC with quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processing subsystem takes advantage of an integrated, high-precision power management system for the best software/hardware combination design solution with low power consumption to easily handle digital predistortion, beamforming control functions, and system administration tasks.