Accelerating innovation at the edge with new SOM and starter kit

AMD has released the AMD Kria K24 SOM and KD240 Drives Starter Kit, the latest additions to the Kria portfolio of adaptive SOMs and developer kits. The SOM provides power-efficient compute in a small form factor and targets cost-sensitive industrial and commercial edge applications. Advanced InFO (Integrated Fan-Out) packaging makes the device half the size of a credit card while using half the power of the larger, connector-compatible Kria K26 SOM.

The K24 SOM offers high determinism and low latency for powering electric drives and motor controllers in compute-intensive DSP applications at the edge. Key applications include electric motor systems, robotics for factory automation, power generation, public transportation such as elevators and trains, surgical robotics and medical equipment like MRI beds and EV charging stations.

Coupled with the KD240 Drives Starter Kit, an out-of-the-box-ready motor control-based development platform, the products provide a seamless path to production deployment with the SOM. Users can be up and running quickly, speeding time to market for motor control and DSP applications without needing FPGA programming expertise.

"The AMD Kria K24 SOM and KD240 development platform build on the breakthrough design experience introduced by the Kria SOM portfolio, offering solutions for robotics, control, vision AI and DSP applications," said Hanneke Krekels, corporate vice president, Core Vertical Markets, AMD. "System architects must meet growing demands for performance and power efficiency while keeping expenses down. The K24 SOM delivers high performance-per-watt in a small form factor and houses the core components of an embedded processing system on a single production-ready board for a fast time to market."

Many factories have hundreds of motors powering robotics that drive assembly lines and other equipment. Around 70% of the total global electrical use by the industrial sector is estimated to be tied to electric motors and motor-driven systems. As such, even a 1% improvement in a drive system's efficiency can greatly impact operational expenses and the environment.

"The AMD Kria SOM portfolio has helped make robust hardware for robotics and industrial edge applications available to the masses, and we're excited to see the portfolio extended with the new K24 SOM and KD240 Starter Kit," said Greg Needel, CEO of Rev Robotics. "With Kria SOMs, we're able to simplify development of even advanced control loop algorithms, adapt to changing software and hardware requirements, and build really cool things for both commercial and STEM educational customers."