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This guide includes high-level information, design guidelines, and design decision trade-offs for the following topics:

System Design Types

Provides an overview of the different system design types and design flows supported for each Versal device series.

System Design Planning Methodology Flow

Describes the recommended methodology when planning your system design, including special considerations based on your system design type.

AI Engine System Partitioning Planning

Provides information on how to partition a hetrerogenous Versal adaptive SoC system by balancing compute, storage, and bandwidth, using an iterative methodology that minimizes risk and identifies a feasible architecture early.

Power and Thermal Planning

Covers system design considerations related to power estimation, thermal design, power delivery, and decoupling.

System Debug Planning

Provides information on the Versal adaptive SoC debug interfaces as well as high-level information on debugging the AI Engine and processing system (PS).

System Verification Planning

Provides high-level simulation recommendations for Versal adaptive SoC.

System Validation Planning

Provides information on key areas of focus when planning for system validation based on your system design type.

Also, this guide covers the architecture and design flow for the following device series:

• Versal Prime Series Gen 2
• Versal Prime Series
• Versal Premium Series
• Versal HBM Series
• Versal AI Core Series
• Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2
• Versal AI Edge Series

Both architectures are similar. This guide provides IP/block and design flow examples based on the IP/blocks in the Versal AI Core Series VC1902. The example design flow is generally applicable to all Versal devices with minor variations. For IP/blocks available in the devices of each series, refer to the Versal Architecture and Product Data Sheet: Overview (DS950).

The following table shows the differences between architectures.