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Extended Spartan-3A FPGAs

Extended Spartan-3A Family

The Extended Spartan®-3A family of FPGAs solves the design challenges in many high-volume, cost-sensitive electronic applications. With devices ranging from 50,000 to 3.4 million system gates, this FPGA family provides a broad range options including integrated DSP MACs with the lowest total system cost.

Extended Spartan-3A FPGA Benefits
Lowest system cost
  • Integrated features and only two power rails minimize external components
  • Lowest static power and award winning power management modes
  • Robust low-cost security
  • Competing FPGA System vs. Extended Spartan-3A Family
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    Decrease board cost and ensures manufacturing efficiency.

Cost-efficient logic design
  • Largest selection of IP, reference designs and I/O standards
  • Non-volatile option provides largest integrated flash memory
  • Seamless package migration to non-volatile devices
  • Extended Spartan-3A Family Ecosystem
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    Extended Spartan-3A family ecosystem.

Low-cost complex computation and embedded processing
  • Abundant set of DSP48A hard blocks speeds calculations and saves logic cells
  • MicroBlaze™ soft processor delivers inexpensive, highly functional Linux embedded processing
Extended Spartan-3A FPGA Sub-families
Spartan-3A FPGAs

For mainstream applications

Spartan-3AN FPGAs

For non-volatile applications

Spartan-3A DSP FPGAs

For DSP applications

Extended Spartan-3A FPGA Platform Comparison Table
System Requirements 3A 3AN 3A DSP
Versatile embedded processing
Optimum memory architecture
Low-cost security
Integrated Flash memory    
Single-chip non-volatile    
High performance DSP functionality    
Enhanced power management