AMD’s Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 FPGA family. | Source: AMD
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. yesterday introduced the Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 FPGA family. This latest family of midrange field-programmable gate arrays, or FPGAs, modernizes memory, I/O, and security to meet the growing demands of industrial automation, AMD claimed.
AMD said it engineered the Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 FPGAs to meet increasingly complex system requirements across industrial and medical markets. It features scalable sensor connectivity that improves diagnostic clarity and responsiveness in machine vision, industrial automation, medical imaging, and robotic systems.
Additionally, high-speed transceivers and PCIe Gen4 support 4K AV-over-IP, multi-stream capture, and frame-accurate transport for professional broadcast and remote audiovisual production. Increased memory bandwidth helps accelerate pattern generation, fail capture, and timing-critical workloads, said AMD.
The new system also features integrated LPDDR4X/5/5X controllers with high DDR (double data rate) bandwidth and deterministic performance allow designers to build systems that keep pace with ever-growing data rates, while maintaining tight control over latency and power efficiency.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company has also set up a migration path for the new FPGA family with Spartan UltraScale+ FPGAs. Users can start now with the XCSU200P in the SBVF900 package and then migrate to Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 FPGAs in Q4 2026.
Kintex focuses on performance, longevity with midrange prices
AMD said its latest Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 device offers a five times increase in memory bandwidth compared to the prior generation, along with up to two times higher channel density per PCIe interface. It said these changes translate directly into higher throughput, lower latency, and more responsive systems, without pushing designers into higher-cost device classes.
The updated devices also modernize midrange FPGA capabilities to address growing bandwidth, timing precision, and connectivity demands across key markets.
With scalable high-speed I/O, modernized memory subsystems, and deterministic fabric behavior, Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 FPGAs enable faster on-device processing and adaptable pipelines that can respond in real time while scaling to future throughput requirements, claimed AMD.
Many Kintex-based systems operate in environments where long product lifecycles, certification stability, and trusted operation are critical requirements. AMD said its latest products integrate advanced security capabilities directly into the device.
Features such as authenticated device operation, bitstream encryption, anti-cloning protections, secure key management, and CNSA 2.0–grade cryptography help safeguard intellectual property and protect systems operating in distributed, connected, and regulated environments.
With planned availability through at least 2045, AMD said the new family provides the supply assurance to industrial, medical, broadcast, and test equipment manufacturers. The company said they can rely on it to support multi-decade deployments while helping to minimize redesign cycles and maintain regulatory certifications over time.
AMD aims to make getting started easier
By building on proven AMD Vivado and Vitis tools and a mature portfolio of AMD video, Ethernet, and connectivity IP, Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 devices offer a stable, predictable path forward, AMD said.
AMD plans to make simulation support for the Vivado and Vitis tools available in Q3 2026, giving development teams the early access needed to begin architecture exploration and design work. Pre-production XC2KU050P FPGA silicon will follow with sampling in Q4 2026, enabling early hardware validation and performance characterization, with production anticipated in the first half of 2027.
A Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 evaluation kit, based on the XC2KU050P FPGA, will start sampling in Q4 2026.
The existing Spartan UltraScale+ SCU200 Evaluation Kit, based on the migration-capable XCSU200P device, is available today for designers who want early hands-on experience with PCIe Gen4, hard memory controllers, and advanced security features.
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