The Xilinx Automotive (XA) Spartan®-7 family of FPGAs, using the high-K metal gate (HKMG) process, provides the best combination of high performance and low power to service a wide variety of automotive applications. XA Spartan-7 FPGAs use the same 28HPL process as the established 7 series families and benefit from many of the same underlying architectural elements. The result is a family of compact, cost-optimized FPGAs that provide high logic and I/O performance with strictly controlled power consumption that are able to fit into aggressively small form factor packaging—all at a low cost.
The six-member family delivers expanded densities ranging from 6,000 to 102,400 logic cells and faster, more comprehensive connectivity. The XA Spartan-7 family offers a new, more efficient, dual-register 6-input look-up table (LUT) logic and a rich selection of built-in system-level blocks. These include 36Kb (2 x 18Kb) block RAMs with built-in FIFO logic for on-chip data buffering, DSP slices with 25 x 18 multiplier, 48-bit accumulator, and pre-adder for high-performance filtering, including optimized symmetric coefficient filtering, enhanced mixed-mode clock management blocks, SelectIO™ technology with support of DDR3 interfacing up to 800Mb/s, advanced system-level power management modes, auto-detect configuration options, and enhanced IP security with AES and Device DNA protection. These features provide a low-cost programmable alternative to custom ASIC products with unprecedented ease of use. XA Spartan-7 FPGAs offer the best solution for flexible and scalable high-volume logic designs, high-bandwidth parallel DSP processing designs, and cost-sensitive applications where multiple interfacing standards are required.