For application acceleration FPGAs often offer the optimal solution in terms of performance, space, price and power consumption. Thanks to FPGA and SoC Modules like the Enclustra Mercury+ XU1 this especially holds true regarding time-to-market.

At Xilinx Developer Forum (XDF) Silicon Valley Enclustra showcased how a mathematically demanding problem can be solved efficiently in an MPSoC. The demo shows a Mercury+ XU1 module, that is based on the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC, calculating the Mandelbrot fractal set in the FPGA fabric. The calculation in the FPGA/programmable logic is controlled and displayed from the Processing System running Ubuntu.

The demo shows how FPGAs can be integrated seamlessly into a CPU-based system to accelerate computational tasks. The FPGA fabric calculates 84 Billion 64x64 bit multiplications per second and displays up to over 100 frames per second at a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels (Full-HD).

For the next chance to see the power of FPGAs visit us at the Xilinx Developer Fair (XDF) Frankfurt, December 10^th 2018.