| guide | Canonical has announced that its widely used Ubuntu Linux operating system is now available for the AMD-Xilinx Versal AI Core Series VCK190 Evaluation Kit. |
The Versal VCK190 is the first Versal AI Core series evaluation kit from AMD-Xilinx, designed to allow designers to develop solutions utilizing AI and DSP engines, capable of delivering more than 100 times the performance of any existing server-grade CPU on the market computing performance.
The AMD-Xilinx Versal AI Core Series VCK190 Evaluation Kit features the VC1902 Versal AI Core Series ACAP, which is expected to deliver high-throughput AI inference and signal processing for cloud, edge, and network applications.
Under the hood, the device is powered by a dual-core Arm Cortex-A72 APU (application processing unit) and a dual-core Arm Cortex-R5F RTPU (real-time processing unit), 400 AI engines, 1,968 DSP engines, and 1,968 system logic units (K) drive.
It is also equipped with PCIe Gen4 interface for high computing performance market, DDR4 and LPDDR4 memory interface, HDMI port for video processing applications, SFP28 and QSFP28 optical interface, and RJ-45 Ethernet port and FMC expansion for networking interface.
If you've ever wanted to run Ubuntu on the AMD-Xilinx Versal AI Core series VCK190 Evaluation Kit, Canonical now offers an optimized Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) image for the VCK190 Evaluation Kit (non-ES) model.
However, Canonical is marking these images as "Developer Preview", which means they are for evaluation and development purposes only due to some known issues. Currently, the Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 LTS image of the AMD-Xilinx Versal Adaptive SoC evaluation kit should not be used in production systems, the company warned.
To get started with the certified AMD-Xilinx Versal Adaptive SoC Evaluation Kit for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and to download the available images, visit the official website and dedicated wiki page for installation instructions.