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VERSAL™ AI EDGE SERIES VEK280 EVALUATION KITOVERVIEWThe AMD Versal™ AI Edge VEK280 Evaluation Kit is a powerful, flexible, and feature-richevaluation and development platform for targeting a variety of ML and compute-intensive
applications. It features the largest device in the Versal AI Edge series, the VE2802,
boasting over 200 dense TOPs with its ML-optimized AI Engines, a rich programmablefabric, an Arm®-based processor subsystem, and a variety of hardened peripherals.
This kit comes with a breadth of connectivity options, software tools, and example designs
to accelerate development of applications from sensor to AI to real-time control acrossmultiple markets.

HIGHLIGHTS
Versal AI Edge VE2802 Device Capabilities

TARGET APPLICATIONS• AI Engines optimized for ML inference (AIE-MLs)

VISION• DSP Engines• AI Edge Box• Machine Vision Cameras• Medical Imaging Devices• Dual-core Arm Cortex®-A72• Dual-core Arm Cortex-R5F• 40G Multirate Ethernet MACs
• Video Decoder Engines (VDEs)

AUTOMOTIVE• GTYP transceivers• Edge Sensor (e.g., radar, LiDAR, vision)• Domain Controller Offload• Sensor Processing, Aggregation, and Fusion

Breadth of Board-Level Connectivity Options• SFP28 connector for high-speed data communication• FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC+) connector with 68 user-defined signals and 8 GTYPs• 12 GB (6x 2 GB, 32-bit), 192-bit LPDDR4 component memory• PCIe® edge connector supporting Gen4 x16• HDMI 2.1 input and output• MicroSD card interface

Development Tools and Enhanced Debug Methodology• Vivado™ design suite and the Vitis™ unified software platform

INDUSTRIAL• Collaborative Robotics• Converged Networking• Industrial-Grade PCs

AEROSPACE AND DEFENSE• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles• MILCOM Radio• Data and Signal Processing Systems• System Controller with the Board Evaluation and Management tool (BEAM)• Example designs and tutorials to get started quickly

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VEK280 Evaluation Board

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Power Supply

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SFP28 Passive Loopback Module

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Vivado™ Design Suite Voucher

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