Spartan®-6 FPGA delivers an optimal balance of low risk, low cost, and low power for cost-sensitive applications, now with 42% less power consumption and 12% increased performance enabled by ISE® Design Suite. Spartan-6 FPGAs offer advanced power management technology, up to 150 K logic cells, integrated PCI Express® blocks, advanced memory support, 250 MHz DSP slices, and 3.2 Gbps low-power transceivers.

 

 

Spartan-6 FPGA Family Benefits:

 

 

   - Increase system performance with efficient, dual-register 6-input LUT (look-up-table) logic structure
   - Implement PCI Express with integrated endpoint blocks
   - Get connected with up to 8 low power (150 mW per) 3.2 Gbps GTP serial transceivers
   - Support access rates of up to 800 Mbps using integrated memory controllers
   - Build DSP applications using low-power 250 MHz DSP48A1 slices with 18 x 18 multipliers
   - Use multi-voltage, multi-standard SelectIO™ banks with low cost HSTL and SSTL memory interfaces
   - Clock management tiles, each consisting of 2 DCMs and 1 PLL
   - 1000 MHz clocking

Differentiate products through efficient power management

   - Take advantage of proven low-power 45 nm process technology
   - Manage power with high performance 1.2 V core voltage or lower-power 1.0 V core voltage option
   - Reach zero power with hibernate power-down mode
   - Maintain state and configuration with multi-pin wake-up, control enhancement suspend mode

Easily meet system-level requirements

   - Use invaluable on-chip local storage with dual-port block RAMs, each storing 18 Kbits
   - Build systems over 40 I/O supported standards and protocols
   - Enhance IP security with AES and Device DNA Security
   - Create embedded systems using MicroBlaze 7.0 with MMU and FPU for greater functionality and OS support
   - Go 'green' with RoHS-compliant Pb-free packaging
   - Speed memory access with hard DRAM memory controller capable of 12.8 Gbps memory bandwidth