Power Advantage

Leading in Power Innovation

Attain increased power advantages without compromising desired overall system performance with the latest Xilinx 7 series FPGAs.  Power efficiencies realized through a 28nm high-performance, low power process, coupled with architecture innovations and simple and efficient power estimation tools. Xilinx provides a complete solution from IC technologies to software tools to help you optimize the total power consumption of your design.

7 Series FPGA Power Advantage

Providing superior performance per watt, 7 series FPGAs share unified and scalable hardware architecture and are fabricated on a versatile 28nm high-k metal gate (HKMG) high performance, low-power process (28HPL) -- allowing Xilinx to deliver a full range of power-efficient FPGA product families. Xilinx 7 series FPGAs ensure that system designers can achieve power-optimized designs while meeting critical performance targets. The small, fast, low-power blocks of the 7 series architecture, refined over multiple generations and combined with an FPGA-optimized process, enable leadership power and performance for all FPGA workloads.

ISE® Design Suite offers a simple, one-step process to specify power optimization. The ISE Design Suite: Logic Edition includes exclusive tools and technologies to predict, achieve, and validate optimal power savings. These include:

• Xilinx Power Estimator (7 series: Jan 27, 2012)
• Xilinx Power Analyzer
• Intelligent Clock-Gating for up to 30% dynamic power reduction
• Team Design for multi-site design teams
• Design Preservation for timing repeatability
• Partial reconfiguration for greater system flexibility, size, power, and cost reduction

7 Series Power Benchmark Examples

Xilinx 7 series FPGAs consistently demonstrate the lowest total power of any competing 28nm family.  Here you will find detailed total power benchmarks representing real application designs across multiple market segments, demonstrating the power-efficiency leadership of Xilinx 7 series FPGAs.

Artix™-7 FPGA Application Power Benchmarks	Kintex™-7 FPGA Application Power Benchmarks	Virtex®-7 FPGA Application Power Benchmarks
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Realize your Power Advantage Today!

Available for all commercially available Xilinx FPGAs, the company provides a complete solution that encompasses power estimators and analyzers, power-driven implementation tool algorithms and a variety of power-related documentation.

Pocket Power Estimator (PPE) App

The Xilinx Pocket Power Estimator provides a quick, easy reference for calculating the reduced power consumption of Xilinx 28nm devices; compares Xilinx 7 series FPGAs to our previous generation families and approximates the power consumption of competitive families. The PPE app is now available through iTunes or in the Android Market.

• View the FAQs for the PPE Android App

XPower Estimator (XPE)

The Xilinx power estimator tool makes it easy to calculate your power advantage.  We offer product-specific spreadsheet-based power estimation tools, delivering accurate and easy-to-use ways for you to quickly model the power consumption of your next design.

Download the XPE Tool that is right for you:

• 7 series: Jan 27, 2012
• Virtex-6: Oct 26, 2011
• Spartan®-6: Oct 26, 2011

XPower Analyzer

Delivered with ISE Design Suite, Xilinx Power Analyzer provides accurate power analysis after design implementation, highlighting areas in the design for potential power reduction.