Tutorial: Introduction to the AMD Versal ACAP Adaptable Intelligent Engine and to its Programming Model

This tutorial introduces the Adaptable Intelligent Engine (AIE), a new type of compute element in the latest AMD technology. The AI Engines are a tiled array of Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) and Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) processing elements that provide high compute density. In this tutorial we will describe the AI Engine tile and array architecture as well as the different connectivity methods. We will also have an introduction to AI Engine programming which consists of a Data Flow Graph Specification written in C++ and the kernel description, written either in C or C++.