Date: 05/11/2012

Defense grade 7-series FPGAs from Xilinx available in volumes from Q1 2013

Xilinx, Inc. has announced defense-grade All Programmable 7 series FPGAs and Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoCs. Xilinx defense-grade products are fully pin-compatible to commercial-grade equivalents for low cost prototyping and are offered off-the-shelf.

Xilinx says its fourth generation secure silicon, Information Assurance methodology and DoD 5000 Series compliant Anti-Tamper Security Monitor IP core (SECMON), forms the basis for Xilinx’s ‘fail safe heritage’.

“Xilinx is the only major FPGA vendor offering a distinct defense-grade product line with fail safe heritage,” said Yousef Khalilollahi, senior director, Aerospace and Defense at Xilinx. “In addition to the secure capabilities, the defense-grade 7 series FPGAs and Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoCs offer mask set control, ruggedized packaging with fully-leaded (Pb) content for harsh environmental operation, full extended temperature range testing, long term availability and anti-counterfeiting features.”

An example of a defense-grade application for the Xilinx 7 series FPGAs and Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoCs for secure communications solutions is a device with Single-chip cryptography (SCC) capability with Security Monitor 3.0 IP core for physical design security. SCC combines the functionality of multiple FPGAs into a single device, enabling A&D product developers to reduce SWaP-C of systems through higher levels of integration.
Availability: The Xilinx All Programmable families of defense-grade FPGAs and SoCs are available in I-temperature (-40° to +100°C), Q-temperature (-40° to +125°C) and M-temperature (-55° to +125°C). The devices to be in production Q1 of 2013.