SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc.
(NASDAQ:XLNX) today announced the Spartan®-7 FPGA family
that will deliver I/O intensive devices for cost-sensitive
applications. The new family will address connectivity requirements
across a breadth of markets including automotive, consumer,
industrial IoT, data center, wired and wireless communications, and
portable medical solutions. All new Spartan-7 FPGAs will be
supported on the no-cost Vivado® Design Suite
WebPACK™ Edition, as well as the Vivado Design and
System Editions, to enable fastest time to integration and
implementation.
The Spartan-7 FPGA family will deliver high I/O ratios in small
form factor packages, critical for cost-sensitive markets. The
family will provide up to 4X price-performance-per-watt improvement
over previous generations for flexible connectivity, interface
bridging, and companion chip functionality.
"Xilinx has a long history of providing cost optimized solutions
with our Spartan class of products," says Kirk Saban, Senior Director of FPGA & SoC
Product Management and Marketing at Xilinx. "The introduction of
the Spartan-7 FPGA family re-affirms our continued commitment to
that heritage and extends our multi-generational leadership in I/O
density, small form factor packaging, and power efficiency."
The new family will be co-optimized with the industry-leading
Vivado Design Suite to deliver an IP-centric and system-centric
development environment to address short development cycle
requirements and aggressive time-to-market pressures common in
cost-conscious markets. The Spartan-7 FPGA family will extend the
existing Xilinx 7 Series portfolio, implemented in TSMC's 28nm HPL
process.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the leading provider of All Programmable
FPGAs, SoCs, MPSoCs, and 3D ICs. Xilinx uniquely
enables applications that are both software defined and hardware
optimized – powering industry advancements in Cloud Computing,
SDN/NFV, Video/Vision, Industrial IoT, and 5G Wireless. For more
information, visit
www.xilinx.com
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