Power Management Solution Guide

Issue 1: Solving Today's Hot Challenge

Welcome

• More Power to You
  Editorial by Sandeep Vij, Vice President Worldwide Marketing.

Articles

• Conquering the Three Challenges of Power Consumption
  Why is power such an issue?
• The Virtex-4 Power Play
  The latest Xilinx FPGA offers revolutionary power innovations.

White Papers

• Power vs. Performance: The 90 nm Inflection Point
  The debate over which high-performance 90 nm FPGA has the lowest power is “heating up,” and for good reason.
• Static Power and the Importance of Realistic Junction Temperature Analysis
  Total power consumption of a board or system is important; each FPGA or ASIC in a system is beginning to be forced to meet a power budget.

Application Notes

• Using CoolRunner-II Advanced Features
  This application note describes how to implement the CoolRunner-II advanced features in the Xilinx software.
• Low Power Design with CoolRunner-II CPLDs
  This application note describes the design methodologies that can be employed to obtain the lowest power possible using the CoolRunner-II CPLD by utilizing its unique power saving features.
• Using DataGATE in CoolRunner-II CPLDs
  This application note outlines the various ways designers can utilize the DataGATE feature of
  CoolRunner-II CPLDs.
• Managing Power with CoolRunner-II CPLDs
  This application note demonstrates how multiple devices, including Virtex™-II, Spartan™-3, and Spartan-3L FPGAs, can be effectively power managed by a single CoolRunner-II CPLD. It is written with battery powered applications in mind.