Xilinx Launches World's First 28nm FPGA Device for Next-gen Systems

Xilinx Inc. has shipped the first products in its 7 series FPGA. The launch of the Kintex-7 K325T Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) marks the industry's fastest product rollout of next generation programmable logic devices built with 28nm technology. Kintex-7 FPGAs are built to provide optimal price performance at the lowest power to meet requirements for key applications. At the same time, the Kintex-7 FPGA family leverages the unified architecture shared across the 7 series, 28nm device families to enable customers to begin FPGA development now for designs that may ultimately migrate to Artix-7 and Virtex-7 FPGAs.

The Kintex-7 devices are offered in conjunction with the Xilinx ISE Design Suite 13, AMBA 4 Advanced Extensible Interface (AXI) bus protocol-compliant IP, and targeted reference designs. All of these Targeted Design Platform components run on the new Kintex-7 FPGA KC705 evaluation board currently being demonstrated for customers so that designers can evaluate the power consumption, performance, and capabilities of the new Kintex-7 K325T devices. Xilinx delivered the new devices in less than 90 days from tape-out by leveraging TSMC's 28nm High-Performance, Low-Power (HPL) process that relies on proven design and manufacturing methodologies.

With the shipping of the first Kintex-7 FPGAs to customers, Xilinx is also introducing the industry's first 28nm Targeted Design Platform that combines the Kintex-7 K325T FPGA, ISE development tools, AXI 4 compliant IP, and an initial version of the base targeted reference design running on the Kintex-7 FPGA KC705 evaluation board. This new 7 series targeted design platform allows customer to immediately begin evaluation of the low power, higher performance, and advanced features available in the Kintex-7 FPGA family including Artix-7 and Virtex-7 FPGAs. Designers and engineers have an easy to use, flexible FPGA platform as an alternative to inflexible and slow-to-develop ASIC or ASSP-based silicon solutions.

The Kintex-7 K325T device is the first FPGA in this class to deliver the highest number of channels per dollar at less than 12W of power for LTE wireless radio cards and next generation wireless base stations. Kintex-7 FPGAs provide the optimized price performance required for flat panel displays, ultrasound equipment and many other applications and includes high-bandwidth, low jitter serial transceivers to address price sensitive wired communication applications. The Kintex-7 K325T FPGA is the first of 28 devices that make up the 7 series FPGA that includes the Artix-7 and Virtex-7 FPGA families.

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