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Xilinx Redefines Power, Performance, and Design Productivity with Three New 28 nm FPGA Families:Virtex-7, Kintex-7, and Artix-7 Devices

Three new Xilinx product families leverage the unprecedented power, performance, and capacity enabled by TSMC’s 28 nm high-k metal gate (HKMG), high performance,low power (HPL) process technology and the unparalleled scalability afforded by the FPGA industry’s first unified silicon architecture to provide a comprehensive platform base for next-generation systems.

Today, thanks in large part to the exceptional power/performance characteristics of TSMC’s 28 nm HKMG process, coupled with innovative engineering at both the silicon and software levels, Xilinx has pushed the leading edge to unparalleled levels in system power and performance, capacity, and price with the introduction of the Xilinx® 7 series: Virtex®-7, Kintex™-7, and Artix™-7 families. Coupled with the proven EasyPath™ cost-reduction technology, these new families deliver unprecedented value for next-generation system designers.

The steady migration of FPGA families to new process nodes every two years or so has produced enormous improvements in performance, capacity, and power. In 2008,

Xilinx introduced Virtex-6 FPGAs, which offered 11.13 Gb/s transceivers, supporting over 1 Tb/s aggregate bandwidth, and 2,016 DSP slices, running up to 600 MHz. The largest Virtex-6 device offers 760,000 logic cells, making it the reference for FPGA customers developing ASIC prototyping and emulation applications. Virtex-6 FPGAs were also the first Xilinx product family designed to support voltage scaling, resulting in a 55% total power reduction compared to the previous-generation 65 nm product offerings.

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