AMD announced the expansion of the AMD Versal?? adaptive system-on-chip (SoC) portfolio with the introduction of the Versal RF Series that includes the industry's compute performance in a single-chip device with integrated direct radio frequency (RF)-sampling data converters. Versal RF Series offers precise, wideband-spectrum observability and up to 80 TOPS of digital signal processing (DSP) performance in a size, weight, and power (SWaP)-optimized design, targeting RF systems and test equipment applications in the aerospace and defense (A&D) and test and measurement (T&M) markets, respectively.

Building on the success of the existing AMD Zynq?? RFSoC devices, the highly integrated Versal RF Series heterogeneous computing solution is the 5th generation of AMD direct RF devices and the industry's first to combine high-resolution RF data converters, hard IP DSP compute blocks and AI Engines for DSP, along with adaptive SoC programmable logic and an Arm®? subsystem in a monolithically integrated, single-chip device.

Versal RF Series adaptive SoCs enable simultaneous capture and analysis of wideband-spectrum with high-resolution, multi-channel RF-converters and low-latency processing. Key DSP functions implemented in dedicated IP blocks deliver significant power and area savings compared to soft logic implementations and allow more compute in the same physical area to meet constrained form factor requirements. The total DSP compute provided by the top of stack Versal RF Series devices would require multiple FPGAs for an equivalent computing solution.6 The amount of programmable logic required to meet processing requirements is also minimized, further reducing size and weight.

Versal RF Series development tools are available now. Silicon samples and evaluation kits are expected to be available in fourth quarter 2025, with production shipments expected to begin in the first half of 2027.