Spartan-6 FPGA Family
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Targeted Design Platforms for Spartan
- Choosing and Using the Right Transceiver for Serial interfaces at 3Gbps, 6Gbps, 10Gbps, and Beyond
- Creating Power-Optimized Designs with Virtex®-6 and Spartan-6 FPGAs
- Achieve Greater Productivity and Ease of Use with Targeted Design Platforms enabled by Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGA Families
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The Spartan®-6 FPGA family delivers an optimal balance of low risk, low cost, low power, and high performance for cost-sensitive applications. Built on a proven, low-power 45nm, 9-metal copper layer, dual-oxide process technology, the sixth generation in the Spartan-series offers advanced power management technology, up to 150,000 logic cells, integrated PCI Express® blocks, advanced memory support, 250 MHz DSP slices and 3.125 Gbps low-power transceivers.
Spartan-6 FPGA Family Benefits
Intelligent mix of hard IP and programmability for greater integration
- Increase system performance with efficient, dual-register 6-input LUT (look-up-table) logic structure
- Implement PCI Express with integrated endpoint blocks
- Get connected with up to 8 low power (150 mW per) 3.125 Gbps GTP serial transceivers
- Support access rates of up to 800 Mbps using integrated memory controllers
- Build DSP applications using low-power 250 MHz DSP48A1 slices with 18 x 18 multipliers
- Use multi-voltage, multi-standard SelectIO™ banks with low cost HSTL and SSTL memory interfaces
- Clock management tiles, each consisting of 2 DCMs and 1 PLL
- 1000 MHz clocking
Differentiate products through efficient power management
- Take advantage of proven low-power 45nm process technology
- Manage power with high performance 1.2V core voltage or lower-power 1.0V core voltage option
- Reach zero power with hibernate power‑down mode
- Maintain state and configuration with multi-pin wake‑up, control enhancement suspend mode
Easily meet system-level requirements
- Use invaluable on-chip local storage with dual-port block RAMs, each storing 18 Kbits
- Build systems over 40 I/O supported standards and protocols
- Enhance IP security with AES and Device DNA protection
- Create embedded systems using MicroBlaze 7.0 with MMU and FPU for greater functionality and OS support
- Go 'green' with RoHS-compliant Pb-free packaging
- Speed memory access with hard DRAM memory controller capable of 12.8 Gbps memory bandwidth
Spartan-6 FPGA Sub-families
Spartan-6 LX FPGAs
For cost optimized logic and memory
Spartan-6 LXT FPGAs
For high-speed serial connectivity
