• AMD has introduced theVEK385 Evaluation Kitbuilt around the Versal AI Edge Gen 2 XC2VE3858 SoC FPGA, which combines eight Cortex-A78AE cores, ten Cortex-R52 cores, FPGA fabric with 543,104 LUTs, 144 AI Engine-ML v2 tiles (up to 184 INT8 TOPS), 2,064 DSPs, a Mali-G78AE GPU, and an integrated ISP. • The kit features 20 GB of LPDDR5X memory, a PCIe x8 edge connector supporting Gen5 x4 and Gen3/4 x8, and two HDMI 2.1 RX/TX ports for video. • There is also an SFP28 port for 25-100 Gb/s Ethernet, and CAN-FD alongside PL/PS Ethernet for deterministic control applications. • The board is designed to accelerate prototyping for automotive (ADAS, autonomous driving), industrial (AMR, edge AI boxes), healthcare (ultrasound, endoscopy, 3D imaging), and aerospace-grade systems. • VEK385 Evaluation Kit specifications Adaptive SoC -AMD Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2XC2VE3858-2MSESSVA2112 heterogeneous adaptive SoCCPU - 8x Arm Cortex-A78AE application coresReal-time - 10x Arm Cortex-R52 real-time coresGPU - 4-core Arm Mali-G78AEAI & DSP - 144x AI Engine-ML v2 Tiles (up to 184 INT8 Dense TOPS), 2,064 DSP EnginesFPGA Fabric - 1,188K System Logic Cells, 543,104 LUTsVideo - 1x Video Codec Unit (VCU) Tile (supports H.264/H.265)ISP - 3x Image Signal Processor (ISP) Tiles CPU - 8x Arm Cortex-A78AE application cores Real-time - 10x Arm Cortex-R52 real-time cores GPU - 4-core Arm Mali-G78AE AI & DSP - 144x AI Engine-ML v2 Tiles (up to 184 INT8 Dense TOPS), 2,064 DSP Engines FPGA Fabric - 1,188K System Logic Cells, 543,104 LUTs Video - 1x Video Codec Unit (VCU) Tile (supports H.264/H.265) ISP - 3x Image Signal Processor (ISP) Tiles System controller -AMD Kria K24 Zynq Ultrascale+ system-on-module(SoM) System Memory - 20 GB 160-bit LPDDR5X memory (5x 4 GB, 32-bit, soldered) StorageM.2 M-Key Gen5 (NGFF mini card) socket64 GB UFS storageOSPI flash and MicroSD card support M.2 M-Key Gen5 (NGFF mini card) socket 64 GB UFS storage OSPI flash and MicroSD card support DisplayHDMI 2.1 outputDisplayPort 1.4 (via

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  • AMD has unveiled the VEK385 Evaluation Kit, a Versal AI Edge Gen 2 FPGA platform that plugs directly into PCIe Gen 5/Gen 4 slots. The kit centers on the XC2VE3858‑2MSESSVA2112 SoC, featuring eight Cortex‑A78AE cores, ten Cortex‑R52 real‑time cores, 543,104 LUTs, 144 AI Engine‑ML v2 tiles (up to 184 INT8 TOPS), 2,064 DSPs, a Mali‑G78AE GPU, and integrated ISP. It offers 20 GB LPDDR5X, M.2 Gen 5, HDMI 2.1, SFP28, and QSFP28 connectivity, targeting automotive, industrial, healthcare, and aerospace prototyping. AMD supplies Vivado tools, board‑specific XDC templates, and a web‑based system controller for monitoring and debugging.
  • AMD has introduced the VEK385 Evaluation Kit built around the Versal AI Edge Gen 2 XC2VE3858 SoC FPGA, which combines eight Cortex-A78AE cores, ten Cortex-R52 cores, FPGA fabric with 543,104 LUTs, 144 AI Engine-ML v2 tiles (up to 184 INT8 TOPS), 2,064 DSPs, a Mali-G78AE GPU, and an integrated ISP. The kit features 20 GB of LPDDR5X memory, a PCIe x8 edge connector supporting Gen5 x4 and Gen3/4 x8, and two HDMI 2.1 RX/TX ports for video. There is also an SFP28 port for 25-100 Gb/s Ethernet, and CAN-FD alongside PL/PS Ethernet for deterministic control applications. The board is designed to accel

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