[emusan]

These are quite often used in defense and space applications where the flexibility of the DSP allows for custom waveform implementations that would otherwise require incredible CPU processing power or small batch ASICs. The versal fabric will only expand the potential use cases even further in these domains. Cost is often lower on the priority list for these as well.

[hkwerf]

Yes, I have seen versal, in particular in defense and satcom. However, in just that field, I have also never seen an RFSoC.

I've seen lots of integrated RF transceivers that were tightly coupled to the FPGAs, but not shared on the same SoC.

[jdewerd]

Is that because defense doesn't like them or is it because (non-wartime) defense moves on geological timescales and these are "new"?

[stephen_g]

Yeah, we got a dev board of one of the higher-end RFSoc chips for a project we were doing in high-frequency trading (on the networking side over microwave), and we had to jump through a bunch of hoops for approval since they are mostly intended for defence.

Lot of phased-array radar and electronic warfare applications.