![]() ![]() With 28nm and the “7-series,” the company re-distributed the family names. The price difference between the top-of-the-line Virtex and the gimme-a-pound-o-them-FPGAs Spartan could be 1000x. Spartan was, as its name implied, the economical, stripped-down, cost-is-king family. Virtex was the bad-ass, balls-to-the-wall, all-the-FPGA-we-can-pack-onto-a-slice-of-silicon-at-any-price family. In the old days (with “today” being counted as one of the “old days” already), we had Virtex and Spartan. Starting with the 28nm process node, Xilinx re-named their product families. ![]() The Artix-7 A100T device has now “shipped” and is in the hands of eager engineers, ready to push their next design to the very edge of possibility. Xilinx has announced that they are now shipping the first members of the new 28nm, low-cost, Artix family, rounding out the lineup of three 28nm families they announced a couple of years ago. ![]()
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