Xilinx’s New Spartan-7 FPGA Family Delivers Flexible Connectivity
Xilinx announces a whole new connectivity solution for automotive, consumer, IIoT, data center, wired and wireless communication and portable medical solutions. The Spartan-7 FPGA family is claimed to deliver I/O intensive devices for cost-sensitive applications.
Encompassing its existing Xilinx 7 Series portfolio, The new Spartan-7 FPGAs will be supported on the no-cost Vivado Design Suite WebPACK Edition, as well as the Vivado Design and System Editions, to enable fastest time to integration and implementation.
- Implemented in TSMC’s 28nm HPL process, The Spartan-7 FPGA family will deliver high I/O ratios in small form factor packages, critical for cost-sensitive markets.
- The family will provide up to 4X price-performance-per-watt improvement over previous generations for flexible connectivity, interface bridging, and companion chip functionality.
“Xilinx has a long history of providing cost optimized solutions with our Spartan class of products,” says Kirk Saban, Senior Director of FPGA & SoC Product Management and Marketing at Xilinx. “The introduction of the Spartan-7 FPGA family re-affirms our continued commitment to that heritage and extends our multi-generational leadership in I/O density, small form factor packaging, and power efficiency.”
The new family will be co-optimized with the industry-leading Vivado Design Suite to deliver an IP-centric and system-centric development environment to address short development cycle requirements and aggressive time-to-market pressures common in cost-conscious markets.
