Overview

Power Design Manager (PDM) is AMD’s next-generation stand-alone power estimation platform focused on delivering accurate and consistent power estimates for AMD Versal, UltraScale+ devices and Kria System-on-Modules. PDM is intended for early design and architectural exploration, enabling engineers to evaluate power budgets, device selection, supply-chain considerations and thermal management before hardware implementation. It supports migration from older XPE projects, offers production-level device characterization, and provides multiple estimation modes to adapt to available design detail and validation stages.

Features and Capabilities

• Supported Devices & Platforms: PDM supports Versal™ and UltraScale+™ devices and Kria SOMs, including recent device families and production-level characterization for newer Versal and UltraScale+ devices.
• Migration & Compatibility: Easy migration path from XPE to PDM — import XPE project files so prior resource usage, toggle rates and project data migrate into a PDM project.
• Estimation Modes: Multiple estimation modes to suit pre-design, architecture exploration, and later pre-implementation phases — allows coarse to fine power predictions depending on available design detail.
• Power Modeling & Accuracy: Uses device models, resource utilization, toggle rates, I/O loading and board/PCB factors to compute estimated power distribution across rails and domains. Includes production-level device characterization for higher accuracy.
• What-If Analysis & Visualization: Integrated charts and visualization tools for “what-if” scenarios and breakdowns by category (dynamic/core/I/O/etc.), enabling sensitivity analysis of design choices.
• Workflow Integration & Export: Project import/export and spreadsheet-style editing; options to export readable PDM data and to integrate with other design flows and installation via AMD Unified Installer.
• Device Portfolio Updates & Releases: Regular releases with updates to supported device lists and characterization data; recent releases add support for new Versal/UltraScale+ and Spartan families.
• Use Cases / Typical Phases: Designed for early power budgeting, device selection, power-supply component selection, and thermal management planning during conceptual and architectural exploration.
• Documentation & Support: Comprehensive user guide (UG1556) and “Using PDM” tutorials available from AMD documentation resources; includes installation, usage steps, and examples.