Xilinx ships Artix-7 FPGAs
22 August 2012
Programmable Logic
Xilinx announced first shipments of its Artix-7 field programmable gate array (FPGA) family. The new devices extend the reach of FPGA technology to applications requiring performance capabilities traditionally served by Virtex FPGAs, but the form factor of small, low-cost programmable devices.
Makers of portable medical, handheld radio and small cellular base stations – and a host of other professional grade applications that sit at the edge of their respective technology infrastructures – can now leverage high-end FPGA capabilities to a growing number of products.
The Artix-7 family pushes performance limits at low power consumption because Xilinx chose TSMC’s High-Performance, Low-Power (HPL) process for its 28 nm generation portfolio. This means customers can achieve sub-watt total power consumption for battery powered applications like secure software defined military radios.
Customers can combine the latest encryption IP and modem functions on a single chip for meeting size requirements while lowering BOM. Also, the rich integrated DSP capabilities in the largest member delivers 1306 GMACs of signal processing performance for wideband waveforms.
The Artix-7 family offers 65% lower static and 50% lower dynamic power consumption than previous generation devices, while delivering up to sixteen 6,6 Gbps transceivers.
For builders of microwave backhaul equipment supporting 4G rollouts around the world, Artix-7 devices enable developers to integrate modem and packet processing functions on a single device and have high performance per watt for delivering intelligent bandwidth.
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