AMD Unveils World’s Largest FPGA For Design Emulation

This morning, AMD marked yet another milestone with the announcement of its new Versal Premium VP1902 adaptive SoC (System On Chip) products. Semiconductor chip design is challenging and expensive. As such, there’s a lot of emulation, prototyping and verification work that goes into designing the next greatest processor, accelerator or platform product, and that’s where FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) come in. You can think of FPGAs as both a virtual and physical sandbox for chip engineers to work in and emulate their designs in pre-production silicon, before committing to sending them out to expensive tape-out and chip fab processes for production ASIC (Application Specific IC) designs.