Enter the raffle (linked below) to win a free Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit!
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When you’re operating in factory environments, robotics and automation technology can be especially useful for maximizing efficiency and flexibility, and that’s precisely what the Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit from AMD Xilinx was designed for.
The Kria KR260 kit, designed as a development platform for Kria K26 SOMs, is built around the EV variant of a Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC, which includes an H.264/H.265 video codec, which is capable of simultaneous encode and decode up to 4K resolution at 60 frames per second. It’s also worth noting that alongside that video codec is an Arm Mali-400MP2 graphics processing unit.
One of the main highlights of this starter kit is the flexibility you get from the programmability. It features 256K system logic cells and 1.2K DSP slices, alongside 144 Block RAM blocks and an additional 64 UltraRAM blocks.
This kit is an instant-on robotics platform that features deterministic communication across internal networks and uses the open-source Kria Robotics Stack (KRS) to enable ROS 2 hardware accelerated packages. You’ll also be able to leverage the kit’s time sensitive networking capabilities via two available TSN ports with built-in switches and time synchronization via Ethernet connection, which also supports converged data types and traffic classes.
While the Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit is centered around ROS 2, an open-source suite of middleware for robotic software development, it also makes use of the capabilities found in Xilinx’s Vitis Vision Library and Vivado Design Suite for machine learning application development.
If you’re interested in getting one yourself, they’re available on Xilinx’s website for $349. Of course, if you’d rather save that money, you can also enter this week’s raffle, linked above, for a chance to win this starter kit here for free. Good luck!
