Will the development of the Internet of Things usher in a new vitality that will provide opportunities for the development of FPGAs?
In recent years, the development of the Internet of Things has brought new vitality to the industrial and medical fields. As a result, innovations in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and the Medical Internet of Things (HcIoT) have also emerged. The rise of these emerging fields provides opportunities for the development of FPGAs. As a leader in the FPGA industry, how does Xilinx perform in the industrial Internet of Things and medical IoT?
SoC drives industrial business
According to Chetan Khona, in today's industrial IoT and data acceleration, FPGA stands in the middle of the stage, but the Zynq SoC that really drives Xilinx's business in the industrial field.
Although the traditional FPGA has maintained a certain growth, after the Zynq and Zynq UltraScale+ SoC are put into production, the revenue of the Xilinx ISM department has been significantly accelerated and reached 2.5 times. It can be said that SoC products bring great value to the Xilinx ISM department.
Data brings opportunities and challenges to IIoT and HcIoT
As mentioned above, IIoT and HcIoT are bringing new inspiration to the industry. The explosion of data brought about by the rise of the Internet of Things has also brought new strengths to Xilinx. What are the benefits of data and how to use it has become a question worth considering now.
For the industrial Internet of Things field, data can be used for predictive maintenance, which can reduce plant downtime as much as possible to protect profit and profit. Second, data can be better analyzed by asset analysis and to know the buying habits to create new revenue streams; the second is connectivity, and connectivity is the Internet of Things, which is the foundation of the Industrial Internet. By updating software and hardware through Xilinx solutions, you can extend the life of your product and reduce the cost of replacement.
For the medical Internet of Things, the data can better improve the efficiency of hospitals and clinics, and thus improve the utilization of time, improve the service to patients, and ultimately improve the quality of life of people.
The data explosion has brought considerable prospects to the semiconductor industry, but at the same time, the application of data also has brought many challenges. First and foremost is the privacy issue caused by data, especially with the change of time and the growth of computing power, security will face greater challenges. In addition, delays and responsiveness issues affecting security; issues such as data management costs including transmission, storage, and processing; and reliable Internet connectivity are data issues to be addressed in the IoT revolution.
Taking the medical Internet of Things as an example, more than 100 million medical IoT devices have been installed worldwide, and will grow to 161 million by 2020. But at the same time, some medical executives said that the three obstacles currently hindering the adoption of the Internet of Things by medical organizations: privacy issues accounted for 59%, the original system set problem accounted for 55%, and security issues accounted for 54%. It can be seen that the improvement in data processing and security has brought a very large development space for the semiconductor industry.
In response to the above challenges, Xilinx has to help users use data as efficiently as possible. At the same time, this is the core strategy of the company's ISM department.
Xilinx Industrial and Vision Solutions Overview
To ensure that FPGAs and SoC users can maximize computing power and efficiency on existing devices,Xilinx offers a variety of resources.
According to Chetan Khona, the world-class industrial and medical IoT solution stack, the use of Alveo accelerator cards for industrial PC acceleration, complementary edge and cloud collaboration are the three secret weapons of the ISM department.
For world-class industrial and medical IoT solution stacks, Xilinx offers a full range of solutions, including support for customers by providing secure connectivity, control, vision, circuitry, software and artificial intelligence. Develop the products they need for better applications.
As we all know, industrial real-time and deterministic control and interface, industrial life cycle, quality, reliability, safety, temperature and power consumption are the industrial advantages of Xilinx tradition, But this does not make Xilinx an advantage in forming differentiated competition. To this end, Xilinx combines AI latency with performance and traditional advantages, combining SoC with artificial intelligence to ensure high device integration and high cost effectiveness.
Development route
Based on the strategic three elements of the ISM department above, Xilinx introduced Zynq and Zynq UltraScale+ SoC. With Zynq and Zynq UltraScale+ SoCs, integrating general-purpose processing DSPs, GPUs, and analog, security processors, and security processors into the same product provides new options for industrial and medical IoT.
In addition to the well-known FPGA, SoC, MPSoC, and RFSoC, we also saw Zynq SoC and Zynq UltraScale+ SoC in Xilinx's industrial product roadmap. At the same time, ACAP as the next development factor of Xilinx, in its first product series Versal products, we also found the product for the industrial field - AI Edge. According to reports, AI Edge emphasizes low power consumption and high performance, and can be used in system vision, ultrasound equipment and ultrasonic handheld devices.
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