The Xilinx FPGA Offering

Selecting the Right Programmable Logic Device for Your Design

Virtex Series FPGAs - The Ultimate System Integration Platform

The Xilinx Virtex™ series was the first line of FPGAs to offer one million system gates. Introduced in 1998, the Virtex product line consistently offers the industry's leading combination of performance, capability, and integration at the lowest system cost.

Spartan Series FPGAs - World´s Lowest Cost FPGAs

Xilinx Spartan™ FPGAs are ideal for low-cost, high-volume applications. With over 120 million units shipped since 1998, Spartan series FPGAs provide a reliable, efficient, and low-cost path to realize your time-to-market requirements.

Virtex-5 and Spartan-3 FPGA Comparison Table
Features Virtex-5 Spartan-3
System Gates Up to 12,000K 50K - 5000K
User I/Os Up to 1200 Up to 784
I/O Standards Supported Over 40 24
Clock Management - DCM Yes Yes
Clock Management - PLL Yes No
Embedded Block RAM Up to 5 Mbits Up to 1.8 Mbits
Embedded Multipliers for DSP Yes Yes
Multi-Gigabit High Speed Serial Yes No
Soft Processor Support Yes Yes
Embedded PowerPC™ Processors Yes No

Xilinx Solutions

Xilinx programmable logic solutions help minimize risks for electronic equipment manufacturers by shortening the time required to develop products and take them to market.

You can design and verify the unique circuits in Xilinx programmable devices much faster than by choosing traditional methods such as mask-programmed, fixed logic gate arrays. Moreover, because Xilinx devices are standard parts that need only to be programmed, you are not required to wait for prototypes or pay large nonrecurring engineering (NRE) costs.

The software component of this solution is critical to the success of every design project. Xilinx software solutions provide powerful tools that make designing with programmable logic simple. Push-button design flows, integrated online help, multimedia tutorials, and high-performance automatic, and auto-interactive tools help you achieve optimum results. In addition, the industry's broadest array of programmable logic technology and EDA integration options deliver unparalleled design flexibility.

Leading-edge silicon products, state-of-the-art software solutions, and world-class technical support make up the total solution that Xilinx delivers.

 
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