Date: 27/03/2011

Xilinx sampling its 7 series 28nm FPGAs

Xilinx said it has started shipping the new 28nm 7 series FPGA chips. The first sampled chips are Kintex-7 K325T FPGAs. Kintex-7 target low power applications. The architecture of Kintex-7, Artix-7 and Virtex-7 are designed in such a way that the migration is easier.

The Kintex-7 devices are bundled with Xilinx ISE Design Suite 13, AMBA 4 Advanced Extensible Interface (AXI) bus protocol-compliant IP, and application specific reference designs. Xilinx says 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. Kintex-7 K325T are made using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC)'s 28nm High-Performance, Low-Power (HPL) process

To watch the video demo visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abmQPQ6Eiww.


Availability: The samples of Kintex-7 K325T FPGA are shipping now and order entry for the Kintex-7 FPGA base Targeted Design Platform that uses the Kintex-7 FPGA KC705 evaluation board opens in 4th quarter of 2011.

For more info visit www.xilinx.com