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EasyPath-6 Technology: Fast, Simple, Risk-Free FPGA Cost Reduction

Virtex®-6 FPGAs are the industry’s leading platform for designing complex systems in the fields of wired and wireless communication, storage, computing, instrumentation, automotive, industrial, and medical. Virtex-6 FPGAs not only deliver the most attractive set of features and functionality and the fastest time to market advantage, they are also paired with EasyPath™-6 technology, the fastest path to cost reduction.

Introduction

EasyPath-6 FPGAs are the industry’s only design-specific FPGA solution to offer seamless cost reduction for complex platform FPGA designs. Unlike traditional approaches that require design conversion to structured ASICs or standard-cell ASICs, the EasyPath-6 technology cost reduction is automatic, immediate, and entirely risk-free.

The cost-reduced EasyPath-6 device is architecturally identical to the standard Virtex-6 FPGA in that it uses the same mask-set, process, and foundry. As a result, EasyPath-6 devices can offer, without any alterations, all complex functional blocks like serial transceivers, clock managers, block memory, distributed memory, and I/Os that support a multiplicity of standards as well as basic building blocks, including look-up tables, flip-flops, and the routing structure. The end result is cost-reduced silicon that matches all data sheet specifications and is identical in functionality and timing to the standard Virtex-6 FPGA.

Author:  Shekhar Bapat, Marketing Director, FPGA Cost Reduction, Xilinx

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