Trenz Electronic and MLE release “FPGA Full System Stacks” for AMD Versal™

Make it as easy as possible. That is why Trenz Electronic and Missing Link Electronics (MLE) released the FPGA Full System Stacks: it makes building FPGA-based systems easier for engineers without expert knowledge in FPGA design. 

Trenz Electronic and Missing Link Electronics (MLE), both Premier Partners of the AMD Embedded Partner Program, launched their first set of “FPGA Full System Stacks (FFSS)” for AMD Versal™. 

These FPGA Full System Stacks deliver pre-validated, user-customizable building blocks that integrate FPGA hardware along with acceleration subsystems combining different Intellectual Property (IP) cores, which in concert solve the most common performance bottlenecks in Networking, Storage, and Signal Processing. 

The FPGA Full System Stacks also come with a cost-optimized licensing scheme: 
While the typical license costs for such IP Cores can run up to $100k (or more, depending on what accelerators you may need), the cost of an FFSS is very compatible with most low-unit-volume FPGA applications, sometimes around the same cost as the hardware itself. 

Bridging the Gap in FPGA Accessibility 
As Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) continue to dominate sectors such as Automotive, Aerospace, Industrial, and Telecommunications due to their unmatched flexibility and energy efficiency, the barrier to entry remains high. This is especially due to the complexity of programming FPGAs, in particular those System-on-Chip (SoC) FPGAs with embedded CPUs.

The concept of FPGA Full System Stack is designed to address this challenge. With MLE FPGA IP Cores pre-integrated and pre-validated on Trenz System-on-Modules (SoMs) and Carrierboards, the solution allows developers to bypass the "ground-up" hardware-software integration phase. Instead, users can immediately focus on application-layer development, significantly increasing productivity while shortening time-to-market for new product initiatives. 

FPGA Full System Stacks: Ready-To-Run for Modern Workloads 
The current portfolio focuses on Compute, Video, Storage and Network Acceleration, leveraging the power of AMD Versal™ AI series on the Trenz TE0950 Evalboard and on the Trenz TE0955 SoM along with the Trenz TEB0955 carrierboard. Key configurations available at launch include Networking FPGA Full System Stacks for AMD Versal™ and Storage FPGA Full System Stacks for AMD Versal™.