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System level features
- Available in both 5V and 3.3V versions
- On-chip SelectRAM鈩?memory
- Fully PCI compliant
- Full readback capability for program verification
and internal node observability
- Dedicated high-speed carry logic
- Internal 3-state bus capability
- Eight global low-skew clock or signal networks
- IEEE 1149.1-compatible Boundary Scan logic
- Low cost plastic packages available in all densities
- Footprint compatibility in common packages
Fully supported by powerful Xilinx development system
- Foundation Series: Integrated, shrink-wrap
software
- Alliance Series: Dozens of PC and workstation
third party development systems supported
- Fully automatic mapping, placement and routing
Introduction
The Spartan
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and the Spartan-XL families are a high-vol-
ume production FPGA solution that delivers all the key
requirements for ASIC replacement up to 40,000 gates.
These requirements include high performance, on-chip
RAM, core solutions and prices that, in high volume,
approach and in many cases are equivalent to mask pro-
grammed ASIC devices.
The Spartan series is the result of more than 14 years of
FPGA design experience and feedback from thousands of
customers. By streamlining the Spartan series feature set,
leveraging advanced process technologies and focusing on
total cost management, the Spartan series delivers the key
features required by ASIC and other high-volume logic
users while avoiding the initial cost, long development
cycles and inherent risk of conventional ASICs. The Spar-
tan and Spartan-XL families in the Spartan series have ten
members, as shown in
Table 1.