APU Functional Units - APU Functional Units - AM026

Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 and Prime Series Gen 2 Technical Reference Manual (AM026)

Document ID
AM026
Release Date
2025-12-23
Revision
1.3 English

The following table lists the APU subsystem units.

Table 1. APU Subsystem Functional Units
Unit Description Links
Compute Resources
APU processor Up to 8-core Cortex-A78AE processor

Up to four clusters, 2 cores each

2-core lock-step option

v8-architecture 1

APU_A_SWDT

APU_B_SWDT

APU_C_SWDT

APU_D_SWDT

System watchdog timers (SWDT) for software integrity monitoring
Interconnect
AXI interconnect AXI interconnect switches, NIC-400
Coherent mesh network (CMN) Includes up to four 1 MB system-level caches (SLC) 1
SMMU System memory management unit with translation control unit and several individual translation buffer units (TBU) to translate virtual address into physical address
Non-coherent interconnect I/O peripheral switch, and APB programming interface
FPD_XMPU Memory protection unit for register and system modules
FPD_INT_XMPU

FPD_CMN_XMPU

FPD_SMMU_XMPU

FPD_PL_XMPU

Memory protection units (XMPU)
  1. For device-specific features, such as APU cluster configuration and cache details, see the Versal Architecture and Product Data Sheet: Overview (DS950).