‘World’s highest capacity’ FPGA
12 December 2011
Programmable Logic
Xilinx announced first shipments of its Virtex-7 2000T field programmable gate array (FPGA), said to be the world’s highest capacity programmable logic device - built using 6,8 billion transistors, providing access to 2 million logic cells, equivalent to 20 million ASIC gates, for system integration, ASIC replacement, and ASIC prototyping and emulation.
This capacity is made possible by Xilinx’s Stacked Silicon Interconnect technology, an application of 2,5D IC stacking. Customers are reportedly using the Virtex-7 2000T FPGA to replace large-capacity ASICs to achieve overall comparable total costs in a third of the time, creating integrated systems that increase system bandwidth and reduce power by eliminating I/O interconnect.
The device also provides equipment manufacturers with an integration platform that will help them overcome the challenges of lowering power while increasing performance and capabilities. By eliminating the I/O interfaces between different ICs on a circuit board, a system’s overall power consumption can be reduced considerably. Because the die align side by side on a silicon interposer, the technology avoids the power and reliability issues that can result from stacking multiple dies on top of each other. The interposer includes over 10 000 high-speed interconnects between each dice, enabling the high-performance integration required for a wide range of applications.
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