AMD Kria Portfolio Grows, Even as the Hardware Shrinks: Meet the Kria K24 SOM and KD240 Drives Kit

The AMD Kria™ portfolio of adaptive system-on-modules (SOMs) grows even as the hardware itself shrinks: meet the Kria K24 SOM, a smaller form factor module designed to deliver a fast path to volume production in a footprint-optimized layout — without sacrificing the flexibility for which the Kria family is known.

Built around the AMD Zynq™ UltraScale+™ MPSoC architecture, the new AMD Kria K24 SOM delivers 132 user-accessible inputs and outputs (IOs), supports connectivity for multiple motors and sensors, and both best-effort and deterministic Industrial Ethernet support.

Built for flexibility, the Kria K24 offers four Arm® Cortex®-A53 MPCore application processor cores running at 1.3GHz and a dual-core Arm Cortex-R5F MPCore real-time processor running at 533MHz, plus an Arm Mali-400 MP2 graphics processor running at 600MHz.

These sit alongside a programmable logic fabric with 154k system logic cells, 9.4Mb of on-chip static RAM (SRAM), 2GB of LPDDR4 RAM, and an optional neural network co-processor for accelerating on-device machine learning and artificial intelligence workloads — delivering 852 giga-operations per second (GOPS) at INT8 precision with the B2304 DPU..

The Kria K24 SOM delivers lower latency compared to DSP processor-based alternatives, offering fully deterministic performance for applications where reliability is key — while enhanced security features, with IEC 62443-standard security and a hardware root of trust with RSA, AES, and SHA acceleration, make it the go-to choice for industrial environments.

For users who have already discovered the benefits of the Kria family through the K26 SOM, the Kria K24 is connector-compatible: just swap the two to tune for power, cost, and performance without having to redesign the host PCB. For those have yet to try the Kria offering from AMD, the Kria KD240 Drives Starter Kit offers everything you need to begin experimentation and product development with the Kria K24 SOM for motor control and digital signal processing (DSP) applications — even without any FPGA experience.

The Kria K24 SOM is available in consumer- and industrial-grade variants, the latter offering an extended three-year warranty and 10-year operating lifespan at temperatures from -40°C to 100°C (-40°F to 212°F) alongside Error Correcting Code (ECC) memory as standard — while both benefit from a ten-year product availability guarantee, providing assurance of continuity for your designs.

More information on the Kria K24 SOM can be found on the AMD website, alongside the Kria KD240 Drives Starter Kit. both are now available from AMD direct and its distributors worldwide.

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