Defense-grade Spartan-6Q FPGA Family
Spartan®-6Q defense-grade FPGAs support the high security requirements of Information Assurance and Anti-tamper in Aerospace and Defense (A&D) applications. As the third generation of secure defense-grade reprogrammable devices, the family is an ideal platform for MILCOM and other applications where security, low-power and low-costs are paramount.
Defense-grade Spartan-6Q FPGA Family Benefits
Secure reprogrammability
- 3rd generation Information Assurance (Single Chip Cryptography Type-1)
- 3rd generation Anti-tamper (DoD 5000 Series)
Superior integration for path to SWaP-C reduction
- Smaller size and lower weight with small form factor (SFF) packaging, single-chip crypto and integrated external components
- 65% lower power overall compared to Spartan-3A FPGAs (equivalent temperature range) with suspend and hibernate modes
- Lowest overall cost defense-grade FPGA with DDR3 support
High reliability
- Heritage of 20+ continuous years in A&D
- Industry participation in working groups and consortia
- Support for evolving and de-facto standards
- True, full range tested (vs. ‘characterized’) I and Q temperatures
- Long term product support
- Mask set control
Platforms and Solutions
Defense-grade Spartan-6Q FPGA Comparison Table
| System Requirements | LX | LXT |
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| Higher performance clocking | |
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| High-performance serial I/O | |
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| Streamlined configuration | |
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| Embedded hard IP | |
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| Unparallelled DSP performance | |
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| Integrated transceivers | |
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| Integrated PCI Express Endpoint block | |
Key Documents
| Name | Modified | Size |
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| Spartan-6 Family Overview | 10/25/2011 | 308 KB |
| Spartan-6 FPGA Data Sheet: DC and Switching Characteristics | 10/17/2011 | 1.86 MB |
| Spartan-6Q FPGA Product Brief |