Xilinx adopts micron xccela™ flash to accelerate performance of artificial intelligence applications

Micron technology, inc. 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). 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. xccela flash expands micron’s 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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