The Applications, Values, and Main Capabilities of the Xilinx Spartan 7 FPGA

Xilinx Spartan 7 provides the best class performance when measured in watts, coupled with small factor packaging in meeting very stringent requirements. Furthermore, the devices also include a MicroBlaze soft processor that runs over 200 DMIPs with DDR3 800 Mb/s support built on the 28mm technology.

Furthermore, the spartan 7 FPGA devices provide top security features, integrated ADC, as well as Q-grade (between -40 and 125 degrees Celsius) on all the commercial devices.

In addition, these devices are very suitable for automotive, consumer, and industrial applications, which includes sensor fusion, embedded vision, and any-to-any connectivity.

What are the Applications of Xilinx Spartan 7?

Machine Vision Interfacing

Xilinx Adaptive FPGAs and SoCs enable compact, high performance frame grabbers and industrial cameras, offering the necessary visual intelligence needed by customers to help in differentiating their imaging products having superior IP, sensor or software technology.

Furthermore, the Xilinx solutions that serve machine vision also provides:

• Any-to-any connectivity, which involves offering support for the main camera and sensor interfaces
• Also, performance, where the industry leader calculates watt/performance as well as density
• Scalability to ensure complete product portfolio
• Reliability, security, and safety

Motor-Control (Single-Axis)

The electric devices of today are expected to perform better compared to control motors. These include:

• Connectivity regarding diverse Ethernet standards, which includes support for TSN (time-sensitive networking)
• Also, Open Safety Compliance, IEC 61508 SIL functional safety 3, ISO13849 Ple CAT4, as well as IEC 62443 cyber security.
• Integrated HMI
• Support for sensor inputs of high numbers, which is very diverse in type
• Also, lower power system-level consumption via quick nanosecond time for loop closure
• Physical footprint (smaller) to ensure an increasing number of different applications
• Machine learning and real time analysis supporting predictive control and maintenance, digital twin, remote diagnostics, as well as more intelligence use scenario or cases.
• Better data logging
• The support of hyperface encoders, Endat 2.0, BISS, and QEI

Furthermore, the maintenance of deterministic precise control over any motors, while integrating both the evolving and modern features is well suited for the xilinx adaptive FPGAs and SoCs due to the fact that the programmable logic offers some isolation from the different other functions.

Cryptographic Engine for the V2X Applications

• Supports different cryptographic standards
• Can update the cryptographic algorithm for any specific stage if the implementation as well as in the field
• Also, logic density that is scalable to help meet different latency requirements and computations for each second
• Different ways of interconnecting with the major SoC/ASSP

Adaptive System for LED Lighting

• Adaptable to newly developed laser technologies and scalable via the LEDs available
• Also, flexible and high performance PWM (Pulse-Width Modulation)
• Wide support for different connectivity standards, from CAN Data-Rate (flexible), from CAN, to Ethernet
• Provide ways of interconnecting many PCB/ECU instances
• Great alternative for implementing mechanisms for safety in safety requirements

Standard Conversion and Automotive Data Format

• Performs acquisition for sensor data, and then transports it into the central ECU (Electronic Control Unit)
• A solution that is cost effective for the implementation of non-typical format and conversion of data
• FPGA flexibility that helps in implementing just the IP necessary excluding the overhead of additional features
• Supports the trend toward the centralized architectures
• It can address the safety requirements via custom IP. These include error injection or customer checkers, and verification.

Values of the Xilinx Spartan 7 FPGA

Programmable system integration

• MicroBlaze processor with soft IP
• High pin-count with respect to logic ratio for input/output connectivity
• Integrated monitoring and security

Increase in system performance

This increase in system performance includes:

• LVDS of about 1.25 GB per second
• Performance is 30% faster compared to the devices of the 45nm generation
• 25.6 Gb per second DDR3-800 peak memory bandwidth featuring a soft and flexible memory controller

Reduction in Total Power

• Also, the total power is 50% lower compared to the 45nm generation type devices
• Options of 0.95v or 1.0v as core voltage

Reduction in BOM Cost

• SYSMON and XADC for monitoring the circuitry and the integration of discrete analog
• Cost-optimized, which ensures system input/output expansion

Acceleration in Design Productivity

• Block-level correct-by-construction design featuring the IP integrator
• Optimized and scalable architecture, IP reuse and comprehensive tools

What are the Main Capabilities of the Xilinx Spartan 7?

Best tool flow of the industry

• Timing closure is faster and utilization is 20% higher when using the well-known Vivado Design’s route technology and expert place
• TreeRTOS, bare metal, as well as Linux support for the MicroBlaze processor and the drag and drop peripherals
• Also, there is easy verification using the mixed-language stimulation of Vivado at no additional cost and no limits in code line.

Monitoring and Security

• Tamper responses and monitoring
• Also, there is integrated thermal monitoring and supply voltage
• Serial number of the device DNA as well as FUSE identifier

Innovative Packaging

• Fully RoHS compliant
• Packaging with lowest cost with a simple breakout
• At 8mm, the least form factor package for the industry for a FPGA of 28 nm

Lower Cost

Thermal and voltage monitoring, XADC integrated analog to digital converters, dedicated IP block, as well as cost-optimized packaging helps in reducing the overall cost of the BOM

Any to Any Connectivity

• Faster connection with a differential input/output of 1.25 Gb/s and can reach a maximum bandwidth of 240 Gb/s
• Connects at a lower cost and has ultimate flexibility making use of soft memory optimized controller
• Support for differential and angle-ended I/O standards
• Simplifies interfaces of high bandwidth with multi-standard, multi-voltage high performance interface banks having a capability of 3.3V

Half of the Power with an Increased Performance

• Logic performance, which is 30% faster compared to the earlier generation of the spartan family
• Also present is a DSP block that is enhanced and offers about 176 GMACs at a frequency of 551 MHz
• Wide temperature offering allowing -40 degrees Celsius to 125 degrees Celsius on all commercial devices
• Also, sub-watt performance that ranges between 6K to 102K logic cells
• Industrial lowest-power speed grade offering

What are the Devices of the Xilinx Spartan 7 FPGA?

XC7S75-2FGGA676C XC7S75-1FGGA676C XC7S75-2FGGA484C

XC7S75-1FGGA484C XC7S50-1CSGA324Q XC7S50-1FGGA484Q

XC7S100-2FGGA676C XC7S100-1FGGA676C XC7S100-2FGGA484C

XC7S100-1FGGA484C XC7S75-L1FGGA484I XC7S75-L1FGGA676I

XC7S75-2FGGA676I XC7S75-1FGGA676I XC7S75-2FGGA484I

XC7S75-1FGGA484I XC7S6-2FTGB196C XC7S6-2FTGB196I

XC7S6-2CSGA225I XC7S6-2CPGA196I XC7S6-2CSGA225C

XC7S6-2CPGA196C XC7S6-1FTGB196I XC7S6-1FTGB196Q

XC7S6-1FTGB196C XC7S6-1CSGA225I XC7S6-1CSGA225Q

XC7S6-1CSGA225C XC7S6-1CPGA196I XC7S6-1CPGA196Q

XC7S6-1CPGA196C XC7S50-L1FGGA484I XC7S50-L1FTGB196I

XC7S50-L1CSGA324I XC7S50-2FTGB196C XC7S50-2FTGB196I

XC7S50-2FGGA484I XC7S50-2CSGA324I XC7S50-2FGGA484C

XC7S50-2CSGA324C XC7S50-1FTGB196C XC7S50-1FTGB196I

XC7S50-1FGGA484I XC7S50-1CSGA324I XC7S50-1FGGA484C

XC7S25-L1FTGB196I XC7S25-L1CSGA225I XC7S25-L1CSGA324I

XC7S25-2FTGB196I XC7S25-2CSGA324I XC7S25-2FTGB196C

XC7S25-2CSGA324C XC7S25-2CSGA225C XC7S25-2CSGA225I

XC7S25-1FTGB196I XC7S25-1CSGA324Q XC7S25-1FTGB196C

XC7S25-1CSGA324I XC7S25-1CSGA225Q XC7S25-1CSGA324C

XC7S25-1CSGA225I XC7S15-2FTGB196I XC7S25-1CSGA225C

XC7S15-2FTGB196C XC7S15-2CSGA225C XC7S15-2CSGA225I

XC7S15-2CPGA196I XC7S15-1FTGB196I XC7S15-2CPGA196C

XC7S15-1FTGB196C XC7S15-1CSGA225C XC7S15-1CSGA225I

XC7S15-1CPGA196I XC7S100-L1FGGA676I XC7S15-1CPGA196C

XC7S100-L1FGGA484I XC7S100-2FGGA484I XC7S100-2FGGA676I

XC7S100-1FGGA676I XC7S50-1CSGA324C XC7S100-1FGGA484I

XC7S75-2FGGA676C

Features of XC7S75-2FGGA676C

It has powerful CMT (clock management tiles), low jitter, and mixed-mode clock manager blocks. Also, it deploys embedded processing quickly, with the help of the MicroBlaze processor

Also, different configuration options, which includes commodity memories support, in-built SEU correction and detection, 256-bit AES encryption featuring SHA-256/HMAC authentication

Furthermore, the wire-bond low-cost increased signal integrity offers an easy migration between the family members that are present in one package. Also, all the packages present come in Pb-free as well as selected packages in the lead option. Also, this device is designed for lowest power and high performance with 28 nm, HPL, HKMG process

XC7S75-1FGGA676C

Features of XC7S75-1FGGA676C

It has integrated blocks that serve the PCI Express for about 8 times the Root Port designs and Gen3 Endpoint. This device is designed for lowest power and high performance with 28 nm, HPL, HKMG process. Also present is the 1.0V and 0.9V core voltage that ensures lower power.

Also, there are different configuration options, which includes commodity memories support, in-built SEU correction and detection, 256-bit AES encryption featuring SHA-256/HMAC authentication

Furthermore, Wire-bond low-cost increased signal integrity offers an easy migration between the family members that are present in one package. Also, all the packages present come in Pb-free as well as selected packages in the lead option

XC7S75-2FGGA484C

Features of the XC7S75-2FGGA484C

Here, there are different configuration options, which include commodity memories support, in-built SEU correction and detection, 256-bit AES encryption featuring SHA-256/HMAC authentication. Also present is wire-bond low-cost increased signal integrity offers an easy migration between the family members that are present in one package.

Furthermore, include are integrated blocks that serve the PCI Express for about 8 times the Root Port designs and Gen3 Endpoint. Also, this device is designed specially for lowest power and high performance with 28 nm, HPL, HKMG process. Also present is the 1.0V and 0.9V core voltage that ensures lower power

XC7S75-1FGGA484C

Features of the XC7S75-1FGGA484C

First feature here is the presence of the 1.0V and 0.9V core voltage that ensures lower power. Also, there are integrated blocks that serve PCI Express for about 8 times the Root Port designs and Gen3 Endpoint. In addition, it is designed for lowest power and high performance with 28 nm, HPL, HKMG process

Furthermore, there are different configuration options, which includes commodity memories support, in-built SEU correction and detection, 256-bit AES encryption featuring SHA-256/HMAC authentication

XC7S50-1CSGA324Q

Features of XC7S50-1CSGA324Q

There are integrated blocks serving the PCI Express for about 8 times the Root Port designs and Gen3 Endpoint. Also present is the 1.0V and 0.9V core voltage that ensures lower power.

Also available are different configuration options, which include commodity memories support, in-built SEU correction and detection. Wire-bond low-cost increased signal integrity offers an easy migration between the family members that are present in one package.

Lastly, all the packages present come in Pb-free as well as selected packages in the lead option.

Conclusion

We hope you clearly understand what the Xilinx Spartan FPGA family is all about. Also, they are applicable in different areas and they also offer lots of benefits. Also, this Xilinx Spartan 7 has a total of 81 devices