Xilinx Kria Edge AI SOMs Launched with Developer Kit

[Cliff Robinson]

The new Xilinx Kria line aims to bring a pre-built System-on-Module to market with a FPGA, Arm cores, and more in a ready-to-deploy design

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[AdrianBc]

The best thing about the Xilinx Kria KV260 starter kit is that it has a very attractive price.

Until now, the cheapest board with a Xilinx UltraScale+ FPGA that I am aware of was the Ultra96 from Avnet, at $250 ($400 for extended temperature range).

The new KV260 starter kit is not only cheaper, but it has a much larger FPGA, ZU5, instead of the ZU3 used in Ultra96. It also has double memory, 4 GB instead of the 2 GB of Ultra96.


At the first glance this seems to be by far the best board for whoever wants to do development work for Xilinx FPGAs.

 

[applepi]

DO NOT BUY THE DEV KIT FROM XILINX. They are projecting a NOVEMBER ship date, no refunds no cancelations. These dudes are the worst customer service I have ever dealt with. Not only that, you need to do Singapore export documents because they are shipping direct from factory. 10/10 would not recommend. They are also charging out the nose for the accessory cables, should have just bought that from elsewhere... So much for available NOW, liars.

 

[AdrianBc]

Good to know, because I have intended to place an order.

In this case, the right way is to buy through Mouser, Avnet or Digi-Key, when the kits will appear in stock, because for now all have 0 in stock.

What is curious is that while Mouser quotes a 3-month lead time, both Avnet and Digi-Key quote only a 2-month lead time. At Mouser there are already around 500 people who have ordered the kit, hoping to receive it in 3 months.

Either a 2-month or a 3-month lead time is much better than waiting till November, so either the distributors are too optimistic or Xilinx is too pessimistic.

 

[kingmouf]

I tried to check for a european authorised distributor and all distributors listed in Xilinx's page for KRIA return a 404-error.... I checked with Mouser and they quote 0 stock supply and 55 week lead time....... that is one year... I guess this may simply mean that they do not a clue on when it will become available. The situation with product launches that are completely vaporware is frustrating. It is also alarming that KRIA is based on a Zynq US+ which is already several years old, it is manufactured in a not-so-bleeding-edge 16nm process and yet it seems to be really difficult to have stock. If one waits for so many months just to receive a sample....