The Spartan®-6 family provides leading system integration capabilities with the lowest total cost for high-volume applications. The thirteen-member family delivers expanded densities ranging from 3,840 to 147,443 logic cells, with half the power consumption of previous Spartan families, and faster, more comprehensive connectivity. Built on a mature 45 nm low-power copper process technology that delivers the optimal balance of cost, power, and performance, the Spartan-6 family offers a new, more efficient, dual-register 6-input lookup table (LUT) logic and a rich selection of built-in system-level blocks. These include 18 Kb (2 x 9 Kb) block RAMs, second generation DSP48A1 slices, SDRAM memory controllers, enhanced mixed-mode clock management blocks, SelectIO™ technology, poweroptimized high-speed serial transceiver blocks, PCI Express® compatible Endpoint blocks, advanced system-level power management modes, auto-detect configuration options, and enhanced IP security with AES and Device DNA protection. These features provide a lowcost programmable alternative to custom ASIC products with unprecedented ease of use. Spartan-6 FPGAs offer the best solution for high-volume logic designs, consumer-oriented DSP designs, and cost-sensitive embedded applications. Spartan-6 FPGAs are the programmable silicon foundation for Targeted Design Platforms that deliver integrated software and hardware components that enable designers to focus on innovation as soon as their development cycle begins.
Feature
Spartan-6 Family:
Designed for low cost
Multiple efficient integrated blocks
Optimized selection of I/O standards
Staggered pads
High-volume plastic wire-bonded packages
Low static and dynamic power
45 nm process optimized for cost and low power
Hibernate power-down mode for zero power
Suspend mode maintains state and configuration with multi-pin wake-up, control enhancement
Lower-power 1.0V core voltage (LX FPGAs, -1L only)
High performance 1.2V core voltage (LX and LXT FPGAs, -2, -3, and -3N speed grades)
Multi-voltage, multi-standard SelectIO™ interface banks
Up to 1,080 Mb/s data transfer rate per differential I/O
Selectable output drive, up to 24 mA per pin
3.3V to 1.2V I/O standards and protocols
Low-cost HSTL and SSTL memory interfaces
Hot swap compliance
Adjustable I/O slew rates to improve signal integrity
High-speed GTP serial transceivers in the LXT FPGAs
Up to 3.2 Gb/s
High-speed interfaces including: Serial ATA, Aurora, 1G Ethernet, PCI Express, OBSAI, CPRI, EPON, GPON, DisplayPort, and XAUI
Integrated Endpoint block for PCI Express designs (LXT)
Low-cost PCI® technology support compatible with the 33 MHz, 32- and 64-bit specification.
Efficient DSP48A1 slices
High-performance arithmetic and signal processing
Fast 18 x 18 multiplier and 48-bit accumulator
Pipelining and cascading capability
Pre-adder to assist filter applications
Integrated Memory Controller blocks
DDR, DDR2, DDR3, and LPDDR support
Data rates up to 800 Mb/s (12.8 Gb/s peak bandwidth)
Multi-port bus structure with independent FIFO to reduce design timing issues
Abundant logic resources with increased logic capacity
Optional shift register or distributed RAM support
Efficient 6-input LUTs improve performance and minimize power
LUT with dual flip-flops for pipeline centric applications
Block RAM with a wide range of granularity
Clock Management Tile (CMT) for enhanced performance
Low noise, flexible clocking
Digital Clock Managers (DCMs) eliminate clock skew and duty cycle distortion
Phase-Locked Loops (PLLs) for low-jitter clocking
Frequency synthesis with simultaneous multiplication, division, and phase shifting
Sixteen low-skew global clock networks
Simplified configuration, supports low-cost standards
2-pin auto-detect configuration
Broad third-party SPI (up to x4) and NOR flash support
Feature rich Xilinx Platform Flash with JTAG
MultiBoot support for remote upgrade with multiple bitstreams, using watchdog protection
Enhanced security for design protection
Faster embedded processing with enhanced, low cost, MicroBlaze™ soft processor
Industry-leading IP and reference designs
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