"AMD's Versatile Embedded+ Architecture Packs Five Compute Architectures onto a Single Board"
AMD has launched its Embedded+ architecture, which combines a x64 Ryzen processor with a Versal AI Edge system-on-chip on a single board, offering five compute architectures for low-power, low-latency data processing applications at the network edge. The Embedded+ architecture targets industrial robotics, retail and surveillance security, smart city gear, networking, machine vision, and medical imaging, with a focus on reliability, cost, power efficiency, and specific workload validation. The platform encourages developers to break up workloads into smaller parts that can be individually accelerated by its various compute architectures, and the first system based on this design is Sapphire's Edge+ VPR-4616-MB, which connects a quad-core Ryzen Embedded R2314 processor to a Versal AI Edge VE2302 Adaptive SoC on a mini-ITX-sized board.
