Xilinx announces highest-capacity FPGA
Clive Maxfield, EE Times -- EDN, January 5, 2012
Xilinx has announced the
first shipments of its
Virtex-7 2000T FPGA,
currently the highest-capacity
programmable-logic device. It contains
6.8 billion transistors
and provides users
with 2 million logic cells,
which is equivalent to 20
million ASIC gates. This
high capacity makes
the Virtex-7 2000T ideal
for system integration,
ASIC replacement, and
ASIC prototyping and emulation.
Xilinx’s SSI (stacked-silicon-interconnect) technology
makes possible the high
integration. The application of
2.5-D IC stacking gives customers
twice the capacity
of competing devices
and leaps ahead of what
Moore’s Law could otherwise
offer in a monolithic
28-nm FPGA.The Virtex-7 2000T FPGAs have sufficient capacity to replace large ASICs and to achieve overall comparable total costs in a third of the time, creating integrated systems that increase system bandwidth and reduce power by eliminating I/O interconnect, and accelerating the prototyping and emulation of advanced ASIC systems. Xilinx is now shipping initial engineering samples. Visit www.xilinx.com/virtex7 to see the demonstration of the first Virtex-7 2000T device using more than 70% of its resources at a fraction of the power of an equivalent design in multiple FPGAs.
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