The AMD / Xilinx Versal VHK158 evaluation kit is engineered to keep up with the higher memory requirements of compute-intensive, memory-bound applications. The board delivers adaptable acceleration for data centers, wired networking, test and measurement, and aerospace and defense applications. The VHK158 board’s primary focus is to allow demonstration and evaluation of the VH1582 silicon and support customer application development.
Features
- 32G HBM memory
- 112G PAM4 transceivers
- QSFP28 and QSFP-DD connectors for optical communication
- PCIe® Gen5x8 and Gen3/4 x16 support
- 32GB (2x 16GB), 72-bit DDR4 DIMM
- FMC+ connector with 8GTYPs and 68 user-defined signals
- System controller with BEAM (web-based GUI user interface application)
Applications
- Datacenter
- Machine learning acceleration
- Compute pre-processing and buffering
- Database acceleration and analytics
- Wired networking
- Network security acceleration
- Search and look-up system
- 800G switch/router
- Test and measurement
- Network testers
- Packet capturing system
- Data capturing system
- Aerospace and defense
- Radar
- Data and signal processing system
- Secure communication system
Videos
Design Tools
Vivado™ Design Suite: The EDA tool suite to create projects for the VHK158 board. Node-locked and device-locked to the Versal™ HBM XCVP1582 device, with one year of updates.
Vitis™ Unified Software Platform: The full suite of tools for developing embedded software, debugging Versal devices, and running targeted reference designs and example designs.
PetaLinux Tools, Board Support Packages, and Pre-Built Images
To build custom Linux images with modifications, visit the PetaLinux Tools page to get an installer and latest board supported packages (BSP).
To boot with Linux images without modifications, download Pre-Built PetaLinux Images.

