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hkwerf · 12 days ago
They already did that with the Zynq Ultrascale+ (https://www.amd.com/en/products/adaptive-socs-and-fpgas/soc/...). I have never seen one used professionally, though, whereas the MPSoCs are everywhere, it seems.

For Ultrascale+ this may still make sense, as the space savings in embedded applications may be significant. However, I've never seen Versal to fit in that space? In my mind, Versal is useful for larger, power-hungry beasts. Once you're there, you may as well make use of the flexibility of moving all of the RF off chip and therefore being able to more carefully select devices with the required parameters.

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jauntywundrkind · 15 days ago
Crazy amazing RF chip; dunno if anyone else is keeping pace with their, especially at such high levels of integration.

> with production shipments expected to begin in the first half of 2027.

Whoa, that feels wildly far off.

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londons_explore · 12 days ago
So the intended market for these are...

Lab gear...?

Does it make sense in anything with higher sales volumes, or would it always make sense to make dedicated silicon with hardware offload for one specific protocol?

5G/6G base stations?

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spacemanspiff01 · 12 days ago
Any idea how many channels this is? Just says multi-channel...

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kristjank · 12 days ago
Great things are coming in the digital part of the RF field. Unfortunately, the knowledge transfer is failing greatly in the analog part of it...

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