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FPGAs – Survey of the Market

ECE 448 Lecture 1 7. FPGAs – Survey of the Market. Resources. Xcell Journal available for FREE on line or in the printed form @ http://www.xilinx.com/publications/xcellonline/ FPGA and Structured ASIC Journal available for FREE by e-mail or on the web @ http://www.fpgajournal.com/.

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FPGAs – Survey of the Market

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  1. ECE 448 Lecture 17 FPGAs – Survey of the Market ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL

  2. Resources Xcell Journal available for FREE on line or in the printed form @ http://www.xilinx.com/publications/xcellonline/ FPGA and Structured ASIC Journal available for FREE by e-mail or on the web @ http://www.fpgajournal.com/ ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL

  3. FPGAs – State of the Market ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL

  4. Major FPGA vendors SRAM-based FPGAs Xilinx Inc. – www.xilinx.com Altera Corp. – www.altera.com Atmel Corp. – www.atmel.com Lattice Semiconductor Corp. – www.latticesemi.com Antifuse and flash-based FPGAs Actel Corp. – www.actel.com QuickLogic Corp. – www.quicklogic.com ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL

  5. The Programmable MarketplaceQ1 Calendar Year 2005 PLD Segment FPGA Sub-Segment Lattice Xilinx QuickLogic: 2% Actel Other: 2% 7% 5% 58% 33% 51% 31% 11% Xilinx Altera Altera All Others Two dominant suppliers, indicating a maturing market Source: Company reports Latest information available; computed on a 4-quarter rolling basis ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL

  6. PLD Market Share 17% 18% 20% 24% 28% 32% 39% $2.1B $2.6B $4.1B $2.6B $2.3B $2.6B $3.1B 100% 32% 31% 33% 32% 32% 34% 31% 80% 60% Market Share (%) 40% 51% 50% 49% 44% 38% 35% 20% 30% 0% Calendar year 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 Xilinx Altera All Others Source: Gartner Dataquest ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL

  7. A Maturing Market • Dominated by two players, Xilinx and Altera • With 51% and 32% share = 83% combined • Remaining players scramble for niches • All non-dedicated players have given up: • Intel, T.I., Motorola, NSC, AMD, Cypress, Philips… • Late-comers have been absorbed or failed: • Dynachip, PlusLogic, Triscend, SiliconSpice (absorbed) Chameleon, Quicksilver, Morphics, Adaptive Silicon (failed) The pace of innovation is set by the leaders ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL

  8. Mainstream Requirements • Versatility, high performance, and low cost • Popular sub-functions @ ASIC performance and cost • User-friendly and capable tools • Many available cores, helpful tech support • Easy (partial) re-programmability • Signal integrity on the pc-board • Compatible I/O levels and standards • Many size, speed, temp and package options • Small-quantity part availability for fast prototyping ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL

  9. FPGA families • Low-cost High-performance Spartan 3 Virtex 4 LX / SX / FX Spartan 3EVirtex 5 LX/LXT/SXT/FXT Spartan 3A Spartan 3AN Spartan 3A DSP Xilinx Altera Cyclone II Stratix II Cyclone III Stratix II GX Stratix III ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL

  10. Xilinx FPGA Families • Old families • XC3000, XC4000, XC5200 • Old 0.5µm, 0.35µm and 0.25µm technology. Not recommended for modern designs. • Low Cost Family • Spartan/XL – derived from XC4000 • Spartan-II – derived from Virtex • Spartan-IIE – derived from Virtex-E • Spartan-3, Spartan-3E, Spartan-3A • Spartan-3AN, Spartan-3A DSP (90 nm) • High-performance families • Virtex (220 nm) • Virtex-E, Virtex-EM (180 nm) • Virtex-II, Virtex-II PRO (130 nm) • Virtex-4 (90 nm) • Virtex-5 (65 nm) Source: [Xilinx Inc.] ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL

  11. Virtex 4 Source: [Xilinx, Inc.] ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL

  12. Three Virtex-4 Families • Application-Specific Modular Block Architecturemakes it easier to create sub-families • LX has logic, BlockRAMs, DSP-Blocks, I/O • SX has more DSP Blocks and BlockRAMs, less logic • FX adds powerful system features: • PPC, Ethernet controller, 11 Gbps transceivers Virtex-4 = eight ‘LX, three ‘SX, six ‘FX circuits 17 family members available in 2005 ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL

  13. Covering a Wide Range Network Processing Supercomputing FX Throughput LX Scientific Processing SX Arithmetic Performance ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL

  14. Prices of the most recent families of XilinxFPGAs • Low-cost High-performance Spartan 3 Virtex II, Virtex II-Pro < $130* < $3,000* Spartan 3E Virtex 4 < $35* < $3,000* * approximate cost of the largest device per unit for a batch of 10,000 units ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL

  15. Virtex-5 Product Roadmap ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL

  16. WHAT’S NEW IN THE VIRTEX-5 FPGA FAMILY ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL

  17. 4-bit LUTs vs. 6-bit LUTs ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL

  18. Hard IP Blocks in Virtex 5 ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL

  19. Virtex-5 vs. Virtex-4 Performance ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL

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