AMD Vivado Design Suite 2024.2: New Era Versatile SoCs

 

AMD Vivado: What is it?

AMD Vivado is a set of design tools for AMD adaptive SoCs and FPGAs. Place and route, design entry, synthesis, verification, and simulation tools are all included.

AMD Vivado Design Suite 

The 2024.2 version is currently accessible and offers notable enhancements for designing with AMD Versal adaptable SoCs.

Features of AMD Vivado 2024.2

Enhanced AMD Versal Adaptive SoC Design Flows.

Quick Location and Path for Any Versatile Device

• Advanced Flow has been improved for speedy compilation.
• Optimization of congestion and routing.

Activating High-Level RTL Flows

Enables the usage of Versal programmable network on chip (NoC) and top-level RTL transceivers.

• Quick Processing System Boot on Various DevicesOS has a segmented design for speed.
• A startup that meets a variety of boot-sequence requirements.
• Enabling speedier design iterations and more quickly reaching your FMAX objectives
• AMD Vivado is the design program for AMD adaptive SoCs and FPGAs. Its components include Place and Route, Design Entry, Synthesis, and Verification/Simulation tools.

Learn how advanced features in the Vivado design tools reduce compilation times and design cycles while allowing designers to more accurately estimate power for AMD adaptive SoCs and FPGAs.

Advantages of AMD Living Reaching Fmax Objectives

Achieving your FMAX goal in a high-speed design is one of the most challenging phases of the hardware design cycle. You may close timing with the help of Vivado's unique features, like Intelligent Design Runs (IDR), Report QoR Assessment (RQA), and Report QoR Suggestions (RQS). Your productivity will rise dramatically if you use RQA, RQS, and IDR to meet your performance goals in a few days as opposed to weeks.

Faster Design Iterations with AMD Vivado

Design revisions are common as developers refine their concepts and incorporate new functionality. Often, only a small portion of the design is altered in these rounds. Two key features of the AMD Vivado Design Suite that significantly reduce design iteration times are the incremental compiler and Abstract Shell.

Design Manager for AMD Power

When developing FPGA and adaptive SoCs, early and accurate power prediction is crucial for guiding crucial design decisions. Power Design Manager is a cutting-edge power estimating tool made to facilitate accurate power estimation early in the design process for large and complex devices, such as the Versal and UltraScale+ families. This tool was specifically designed to provide accurate power estimates for devices with numerous complex hard IP blocks.

Design Entry and Implementation Flows

AMD Vivado supports design entry in traditional HDL, including VHDL and Verilog. It also offers a Plug-and-Play IP Integration Design Environment using the IP Integrator (IPI), a graphical user interface-based tool.

With integrated timing closure and methodological capabilities, Vivado provides the best synthesis and implementation possible for today's complex FPGAs and SOCs.

The UltraFast methodology report (report_methodology), included in Vivado's default flow, allows users to condense their design, evaluate results, and reduce time.

Verification and Debugging

Hardware debugging and verification are crucial to ensuring the functionality, performance, and reliability of the finished FPGA implementation. The Vivado tool's verification components enable efficient confirmation of design functionality. Because of its broad debugging capabilities, engineers can swiftly find and address issues with complex designs.

eXchange Dynamic Function

Designers can alter certain aspects of their designs in real time with Dynamic Function eXchange (DFX). As designers download partial bitstreams to their AMD devices, the remaining logic can keep working. This opens up a wide range of possibilities for real-time design changes and performance enhancements. Through Dynamic Function eXchange, designers can reduce power usage, upgrade systems in real-time, and transition to fewer or smaller devices.

Editions of the AMD Vivado Platform

Standard and Enterprise Editions of AMD Vivado Design Suite
You may download AMD Vivado Design Suite Standard Edition for free. The starting licensing price for the Enterprise Edition is $2,995.

Features and Options for Licensing

The AMD Vivado Standard
The AMD Vivado Standard Edition is available for free download, providing you with instant access to all of its key features and functionalities.

Vivado Enterprise by AMD

The design suite's fully functional Vivado Enterprise Edition supports all AMD devices.

Suggested System Memory

Average and maximum AMD Vivado Design Suite memory usage for each target device family. AMD suggests setting aside enough physical memory to manage spikes in usage.

Observations

• Memory usage increases with the amount of LUT and CLB employed. The following numbers were computed with a 75% average LUT utilization.
• The size and complexity of timing constraints have a significant influence on the quantity of memory required.
• The AMD Vivado tools in programmed batch mode were used to create the following figures on a single synthesis and implementation run.
• DFX flow could lead to more memory usage.
• 32-bit PCs are incompatible with these devices.
• Respond How to configure a Windows 32-bit PC to use 3 GB of RAM is covered in Record 14932.

System of Operation

AMD's x86 and x86-64 chip architectures are compatible with the following operating systems.

Qualities

• Microsoft Windows support.
• 10.0 Windows updates include 1809, 1903, 1909, and 2004.
• Linux compatibility.
• CentOS and RHEL versions 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, and 7.9 7. RHEL 8/CentOS: 8.1, 8.2, 8.3.
• SUSE LE: 12.4, 15.2.
• 16.04.5, 16.04.6, 18.04.1, 18.04.2, 18.04.3, 18.04.4 LTS, 20.04 LTS, and 20.04.1 LTS are among Ubuntu's LTS versions.