ACAP (Adaptive Computing Acceleration Platform): The Inevitable Trend of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
1 The inevitable trend of big data and artificial intelligence On March 19, Xilinx, Inc. announced the launch of the Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP). ACAP is a highly integrated multi-core heterogeneous computing platform that can be flexibly modified from the hardware layer according to the needs of various applications and workloads. It can provide support for rapid innovation of multiple technologies from end-to-edge to the cloud. . ACAP's adaptive capabilities can be dynamically adjusted in milliseconds during operation to achieve performance and performance-to-power ratios that CPUs and GPUs cannot match. In an age of big data and artificial intelligence, ACAP is ideally suited to accelerate a wide range of applications, including video transcoding, databases, data compression, search, AI inference, genomics, machine vision, computing storage, and network acceleration. Xilinx's R&D of ACAP has gone through four years. More than 1,500 engineers have accumulated investment of 1 billion U.S. dollars and developed a monster chip consisting of 50 billion transistors, codenamed Everest (Mount Everest), which is now known as the chip. Wang's Volta GPU (NVIDIA) is about 21 billion transistors, and Everest is 2.5 times the size of its performance. Compared with artificial intelligence AI computing performance, its performance is 20 times that of existing FPGAs. Compared with the CPU, the image processing capability is 10 times that of the CPU. The data processing capacity is 90 times that of the CPU. If the performance of the genome sequencing is 100 times that of the CPU, Xilinx mainly focuses on gene sequencing. The partners include: NGCodec, Ryft and Edico Genome. Patrick Moorhead, founder of Moor Insights & Strategy Market Research, stated: “This is the form of future computing. We are talking about completing genome sequencing in minutes instead of days; the data center can be The workload of the server is programmed to adjust, such as video transcoding during the day and image recognition at night. This is significant." Xilinx President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Victor Peng stated that ACAP is a major technological disruption and is part of Xilinx's broader market strategy. It will help Xilinx to develop beyond the FPGA and beyond. 'Supports only hardware developers' limitations. The application of ACAP products in data centers as well as in a wide range of markets will accelerate the widespread adoption of adaptive computing technologies, thus making the smart, interconnected, adaptive world an earlier reality. 2 ACAP technical details The core of ACAP is a new generation FPGA architecture that combines distributed memory and hardware-programmable DSP blocks, a multi-core SoC, and one or more software-programmable and hardware-aware computing engines, all on-chip. Network (NoC) interconnects. ACAP also has highly-integrated programmable I/O features, ranging from integrated hardware-programmable memory controllers to advanced SerDes transceiver technology, leading-edge RF-ADCs/DACs, and integrated high-bandwidth, depending on the device part number. Memory (HBM). Software developers will be able to apply ACAP systems using software tools such as C/C++, OpenCL, and Python. At the same time, ACAP can still use FPGA tools to program from the RTL level. "Everest" is based on the TSMC 7nm process and will be available in 2019. Its structure includes: Distributed memory Hardware-programmable DSP Module Multi-core SoC One or more software programmable, hardware-adaptable calculation engine Network chip (NoC) Security and power management chip on the control block Hardware-programmable memory controller CCIX and as PCIe support Multimode Ethernet Controller Programmable I / O interface and serialization / deserialization (parallel converter) High bandwidth memory or programmable adc and dac versions Compared to today's latest 16-nm Virtex® VU9P FPGAs, “Everest†promises to increase the performance of deep neural networks by 20 times. The "Everest" based 5G remote radio head can increase bandwidth by a factor of 4 compared to the latest 16nm radio. By that time, various applications in the automotive, industrial, scientific and medical, aerospace, test, measurement and simulation, audio and video and broadcast, and consumer electronics markets will achieve significant performance and power efficiency improvements. 3 Significance of ACAP for Xilinx Xilinx's new vision includes the following three parts: Strengthen Data Center Acceleration: Xilinx is stepping up its efforts with key data center customers, partner ecosystem and software application developers to further enable innovations and deployments to calculate acceleration, accelerometer storage, and networking. Accelerated growth in the core markets: these markets include automotive; wireless infrastructure; wired communications; audio, video, and broadcasting; aerospace and defense; industrial, scientific, and medical; testing, measurement, and simulation; and consumer technology. These core markets and customers maintain the core of Xilinx. Introducing Adaptive Computing Acceleration Platform (ACAP): The third pillar is the announcement of new products.
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