Device

Versal™ AI Core XCVC1902-2MSEVSVA2197 Adaptive SoC

VADJ

The board has a Zynq UltraScale+ device that acts as the system controller. On power up, the system controller reads FRU data on the EEPROM of the connected FMC card, and sets the VADJ voltage accordingly. Supported VADJ voltages are 1.2V and 1.5V.

Versal Configuration

Boot mode of the Versal device is determined by DIP switch SW1.

Config mode 1 2 3 4
JTAG ON ON ON ON
QSPI32 ON OFF ON ON
SD Card ON OFF OFF OFF

The SD card of the Versal is located on the top side of the board, next to the QSFP28 connector.

Zynq UltraScale+ Configuration

Boot mode of the Zynq UltraScale+ device (the system controller) is determined by DIP switch SW11.

Config mode 1 2 3 4
JTAG ON ON ON ON
QSPI32 ON OFF ON ON
SD Card ON OFF OFF OFF

The SD card of the system controller is located on the bottom side of the board underneath USB connector J308.

Enabling VADJ on Versal VCK190 and VMK180

Enabling VADJ on Versal VCK190 and VMK180

 Posted on March 21, 2024  |  Jeff Johnson

If you’ve taken a good look at the VCK190 or VMK180 Versal Evaluation boards, you would have noticed that it has a Zynq UltraScale+ device on it. This would be the central device on a lower cost development board, but on these boards it is just a lowly system controller. The system controller is there to manage power supplies, clocks and other on-board resources and it runs independently of the main device. [Read More]

Using NVMe SSDs with Versal VCK190 and VMK180

Using NVMe SSDs with Versal VCK190 and VMK180

 Posted on March 18, 2024  |  Jeff Johnson

High-capacity non-volatile storage is pretty handy in the intensive computing applications that the Versal ACAP adaptive SoCs get employed in. NVMe SSDs are a perfect way to provide that storage because they can directly interface with the Versal’s integrated blocks for PCIe. Those integrated blocks are Gen4 compliant which makes for an extremely high bandwidth connection between the FPGA fabric and the storage medium. Over the past couple of weeks, my team and I have been bringing up an NVMe SSD on the Versal AI Core VCK190 Evaluation kit using the FPGA Drive FMC Gen4 adapter. [Read More]