FPGA families (1)

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FPGA families (1)
ECE 448 Lecture 18
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Sources

• Peter Alfke, Xilinx Inc.
• FPGAs in Perspective
• Field Programmable Technology Conference
• FPL 2003.

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Major vendors
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Major FPGA vendors

• SRAM-based FPGAs
• Xilinx Inc. www.xilinx.com
• Altera Corp. www.altera.com
• Atmel Corp. www.atmel.com
• Lattice Semiconductor Corp.
• www.latticesemi.com
• Antifuse and flash-based FPGAs
• Actel Corp. www.actel.com
• QuickLogic Corp. www.quicklogic.com

gt 60 of the market
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Xilinx Families Overview
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Xilinx

• Primary products FPGAs and the associated CAD
  software
• Main headquarters in San Jose, CA
• Fabless Semiconductor and Software Company
• UMC (Taiwan) Xilinx acquired an equity stake in
  UMC in 1996
• Seiko Epson (Japan)
• TSMC (Taiwan)

ISE Alliance and Foundation Series Design
Software
Source Xilinx Inc.
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Xilinx FPGA Families

• Old families
• XC3000, XC4000, XC5200
• Old 0.5µm, 0.35µm and 0.25µm technology. Not
  recommended for modern designs.
• Low Cost Family
• Spartan/XL derived from XC4000
• Spartan-II derived from Virtex
• Spartan-IIE derived from Virtex-E
• Spartan-3
• High-performance families
• Virtex (0.22µm)
• Virtex-E, Virtex-EM (0.18µm)
• Virtex-II, Virtex-II PRO (0.13µm)
• Virtex-4 (0.09µm)

Source Xilinx Inc.
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Prices of the most recent families of Xilinx
FPGAs
Low-cost High-performance

• Spartan 3 Virtex II, Virtex II-Pro
• lt 130 lt 3,000
• Spartan 3E Virtex 4
• lt 35 lt 3,000
• approximate cost of the largest device per unit
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• a batch of 10,000 units

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Virtex-II Architecture
Block RAMs
Block RAMs
Block RAMs
Block RAMs
I/O Block
Configurable Logic Block
Multipliers 18 x 18
Multipliers 18 x 18
Multipliers 18 x 18
Multipliers 18 x 18
Source Xilinx Inc.
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Virtex-II PROTM Architecture
Source Cray, MAPLD04
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Virtex 4
Source Xilinx, Inc.
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High-performance Virtex devices
Device Max.clockfrequency Slices Max. I/Opins BlockRAMs MUL Blocks(18x18) Power PCcores
XC2V6000 420 MHz 33.7 K 1,104 2,592 Kb 144 -
XC2V8000 420 MHz 46.5 K 1,108 3,024 Kb 168 -
Virtex II Pro 125 420 MHz 55.6 K 1,200 10,000 Kb 444 4
Virtex 4 LX 200 500 MHz 89.1 K 960 6,048 Kb 96 -
Virtex 4FX 140 500 MHz 63.2 K 896 9,936 Kb 192 2
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