Versal Network-on-Chip (NoC)

Xilinx Versal Adaptable Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP) is a new software-programmable heterogenous compute platform. The slowing of Moores law and the everpresent need for higher levels of compute performance has spurred the development of many domain specific accelerator architectures. ACAP devices are well suited to take advantage of this trend. They provide a combination of hardened heterogenous compute and IO elements and programmable logic. Programmable logic allows the accelerator to be customized in order to accelerate the whole application. The Versal Networkon-Chip (NoC) is a programmable resource that interconnects all of these elements. This paper outlines the motivation for a hardened NoC within a programmable accelerator platform and described the Versal NoC.