Next-generation FPGAs
- Virtex-6 FPGA family offers industry’s highest performance and capacity
- Spartan-6 FPGA family addresses requirements of cost-sensitive applications
- Common architecture enables richest IP and development tool offerings
Comprehensive design environment
- ISE Design Suite tools enable the fastest time to product completion
- Domain-specific editions optimized for logic, embedded, DSP, and system designers
- Complete FPGA design solution for ultimate productivity, performance, cost reduction, and power management
Scalable development kits
- Domain and base level platforms enable simpler, quicker, smarter design of system-on-chip (SoC) solutions
- Integrated hardware and IP infrastructure allows you to focus on your value-added differentiation earlier
- Interactive reference designs and persona-optimized development tools accelerate your time to innovation
Get a head start!
Spend less time working on application infrastructure and more time designing unique value into your electronic systems.
Targeted Design Platforms include:
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The next generation Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGA families enable dramatic improvements in performance, power consumption, and cost reduction to help you:
- Reduce system cost by up to 50%
- Lower power consumption by 65%
- Shrink development time by 50%
- Achieve over 1Tbps high-speed bandwidth to connect systems
| Capability (Logic cells) | 3,840 - 147,443 |
74,496 - 758,784 |
| Block RAM (Kbits) | 216 - 4,824 |
5,616 - 38,304 |
| DSP (Mult/MAC) slices | 8 - 180 |
288 - 2,016 |
| Integrated Memory Controller Blocks | 0 - 4 |
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| Integrated PCI Express® Blocks | 0 - 1 (Gen 1.1 Endpoint) |
0 - 4 (Gen 2.0, Endpoint/ Rootport) |
| Integrated Ethernet MAC Blocks | -- |
0 - 4 |
| I/O Capacity | 100 - 576, 1.05Gbps, 1.2V - 3.3V |
240 - 1,200, 1.4Gbps, 1.2V- 2.5V |
| Serial I/O Capacity | 3.125Gbps, up to 8 transceivers |
Greater than 11Gbps, up to 72 transceivers |
| System Monitor Function with Integrated ADC | -- |
One in every device |
ISE Design Suite 11 enables persona-optimized design flows with four domain-specific configurations:
- Logic Edition
- Contains a complete front-to-back FPGA development flow with tools and base level IP for design entry, pin assignment, synthesis, verification, on-chip debug, floor planning/analysis, bitstream generation, and device programming
- Embedded Edition
- Provides embedded development tools and IP tailored to the needs of embedded systems developers
- DSP Edition
- Provides DSP development tools and IP tailored to the needs of algorithm, system, and hardware developers
- System Edition
- Supports the combined methodologies of logic/connectivity, embedded, and DSP design
Xilinx evaluation and development kits combine hardware, development tools, and more to enable quick development right out of the box:
- Base Platform Kits:
- Base level Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGA evaluation kits provide all the elements that engineers need to develop basic FPGA-based systems, including support for I/O, memory interfacing and more.
- Embedded, DSP and Connectivity Domain Kits:
- The more you know in advance about your demanding design requirements, the more Xilinx can provide to help you accelerate your FPGA system design
- Domain specific platform kits provide additional integrated tools and IP optimized for Embedded, DSP and/or Connectivity intensive applications
- These platforms save time by providing enhanced design infrastructure, enabling engineers to jump ahead in the development schedule to focus more time on creating your own unique product differentiation
- Reference Design Interfaces:
- Interactive reference design encourage rapid ‘what-if’ trade-off exercises to fully evaluate the platform capabilities and lead you into modifying the sources to quickly satisfy your own application requirements
- Quickly Set-Up the systems, Evaluate the platform options, and then Modify the references to extend them into your own designs!
I’m quite impressed by the latest Spartan-6 FPGA Embedded kit from Xilinx. Within minutes of opening the kit, I was able to run the out-of-box demo and quickly evaluate the capabilities of the MicroBlaze processor sub-system with gigabit networking, video interfaces and also the Spartan-6 FPGA hard DDR3 memory controller running at 800Mbps. The FMC daughter card interface on the board and the customizable Embedded reference design will enable me to easily interface and characterize my Gigabit Transceiver designs.
- Nathan Jachimiec, Research Engineer, Agilent Technologies
