Flexible, I/O-intensive devices now available for order and supported in Vivado Design Suite
May 09, 2017
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Xilinx, Inc. (XLNX) today announced that its Spartan®-7 family of FPGAs is now available for order and shipping to standard lead times. As a key member of Xilinx’s Cost-Optimized Portfolio, this device family is designed to meet the needs of cost-sensitive markets by delivering low cost and low power entry points that are I/O optimized for connectivity with industry leading performance-per-watt.
Available in small form factor packaging, Spartan-7 FPGAs offer expanded temperature ranges of –40° to +125°C in commercial devices. The Spartan-7 family also offers enhanced processor scalability at lower cost entry points, with 50 percent higher embedded performance than previous generations using Xilinx® 32-bit MicroBlaze™ soft processor IP. Spartan-7 devices also offer a layered security solution with AES-256 bitstream decryption, SHA-256 bitstream authentication, and on-chip eFUSE key storage.
Now for the first time, Spartan FPGA-based designs can take advantage of the Vivado® Design Suite, giving users even more productivity advantages. All Spartan-7 FPGAs are supported by the no-cost Vivado® HL WebPACK™ Edition, as well as the Vivado HL Design and System Editions.
Availability
Customers can place Spartan-7 FPGA orders by contacting their local Xilinx sales representative.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the leading provider of All Programmable FPGAs, SoCs, MPSoCs, RFSoCs, and 3D ICs. Xilinx uniquely enables applications that are both software defined and hardware optimized – powering industry advancements in Cloud Computing, Video/Vision, Industrial IoT, and 5G Wireless. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.
