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Xilinx invented the FPGA in 1984 and has continued to introduce new products at a rapid pace, keeping up with customer demands for higher density, faster performance, and lower cost devices. Along the way Xilinx has pioneered new architectural features and technologies while maintaining industry-leading device performance and user flexibility.

All Xilinx FPGA products are pin- compatible, allowing easy design migration across density levels within a family and even across families. This "socket security" enhances time-to-market by enabling logic designers to layout their PCBs early in the design cycle and not worry about respins due to logic changes.

XC4000 - The Industry-Standard FPGA

The XC4000 series is the best selling programmable logic family in the industry and has become the defacto FPGA standard. Ranging from 3,000-to-62,000 Max. logic gates, the versatile and feature-rich XC4000 series pioneered the concept of on-chip user RAM in FPGAs.

The Select-RAM feature allows flexible, high-speed implementations of common memory functions including synchronous and dual-port RAM, FIFOs, and register stacks. With the density to address over 80% of all gate array design starts, XC4000 brings the flexibility and time-to-market benefits of FPGAs to almost all gate array designers.

XC5200-Today's Gate Array Replacement

The XC5200 family is the lowest priced FPGA family in the industry and is ideal for designs not requiring on-chip RAM. Ranging from 3,000-to-23,000 gates, the XC5200 segmented interconnect structure gives it the smallest die size in the programmable logic industry. The volume pricing of this low-cost family make gate arrays up to 20,000 gates a thing of the past.

Input/Output Block (IOBs) Diagram

XC4000 Family
  • Highest Density
  • 2K-130K Gates
  • Select-RAM
  • XC5200 Family

  • Lowest Price
  • 3K-23K Gates
  • Gate Array Replacement


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