Model XC4VLX15-11SF363C Brand XILINX

DescriptionValue

Device Logic Cells 13, 824

Device Logic Units13, 824

Lead FinishTin/Lead

Max Processing Temp225

Maximum Number of User I/Os240

Maximum Operating Supply Voltage1.26 V

Minimum Operating Supply Voltage1.14 V

MountingSurface Mount

MSL Level4

Operating Temperature-40 to 100 °C

Pin Count363

Product Dimensions17 x 17 x 1.55 mm

RAM Bits884, 736 Bit

Screening LevelIndustrial

Speed Grade11

Supplier PackageFCBGA

Typical Operating Supply Voltage1.2000 V

Over the past year, FPGA giant Xilinx has been building an ecosystem in China with surprising speed and strength. At the end of 2006, Wim Roelandts, Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of Xilinx, came to China to announce the development strategy of "promoting China's electronic design innovation". The main contents include strengthening customer support, establishing a good ecological network, investing in emerging semiconductor companies and Cultivating future engineering design talents kicked off Xilinx's massive expansion in China.

Subsequently, Xilinx announced the establishment of a $75 million Asia Pacific Technology Fund to invest in companies that develop innovative applications for key industries based on programmable logic. In 2007, Xilinx established Xilinx Programmable IC Talent Training Base and FPGA Innovation Center in Zhangjiang, Shanghai and Wuxi, Jiangsu respectively. Not long ago, the first "Xilinx Cup China University Open Source Hardware Innovation Competition" kicked off in domestic universities. In addition, Xilinx has set up an expert team and application development laboratory in China to increase the development of low-cost, high-volume applications in the Asia-Pacific and Chinese markets.

In addition to paying more attention to the Chinese market like other semiconductor companies, the CTO of Xilinx, who recently came to China, revealed another technical mystery of its large-scale construction of an ecosystem in China: driven by technological and process advancements, FPGA The range of applications is getting wider and wider, FPGA devices are developing towards SoC and specialization, and there is a fusion of software programmable and hardware programmable. To this end, FPGA vendors are transforming into platform providers. For platform providers, the significance of a strong ecosystem is that, first, innovative applications can be continuously discovered, and second, they can provide system-level solutions for these new applications.

Ivo Bolsens: FPGAs are entering a wider range of applications like never before, especially in consumer electronics

"FPGAs are entering a wider range of applications than ever before, especially in consumer electronics, and my most important job is to introduce technologies that have potential for Xilinx's future development." Ivo, global vice president and chief technology officer, Xilinx Bolsens told the "International Electronic Business" reporter.

He further explained that our challenge is that there are too many innovative applications of FPGAs, many of which we do not know ourselves, so we need to build a stronger ecosystem, and universities and startups are developing new technologies and play a very important role in new applications.

Similar to other CTOs, Bolsens is at the helm of Xilinx's technology development and talent development, and leads the work of Xilinx's research labs, focusing on cutting-edge technologies in programmable logic. Of particular note, he is also responsible for Xilinx's university program and the management of technology investment funds for startups to capture new technologies and applications that drive FPGA development, demonstrating Xilinx's emphasis on building ecosystems.

FPGA to SoC and specialization

Driving FPGAs forward is the fact that technological and process advancements continue to increase the value of FPGAs. Bolsens said that since 1990, the cost of FPGAs has been reduced by 500 times, the power consumption has been reduced by 50 times, the logic capacity has been increased by 200 times, and the speed is 40 times faster. times, the capacity will increase by 5 times, the unit power consumption will have 5 times more functions, and the speed will be increased by 5 times.

In addition to programmable logic, FPGA also integrates many IP hard cores, such as the latest PCIe & Ethernet modules, high-speed serial transceivers, DSP modules and embedded processors, to develop into SoCs. For example, Bolsens said that if a 32-bit processor is implemented in an FPGA, it is equivalent to 240MIPS for $0.4, or 100,000 gates for $2.

In fact, this is also similar to the development direction of processors such as traditional DSPs and CPUs, which also integrate various hardware accelerators on-chip to provide higher performance for specific applications. Bolsens told reporters: "It's true, FPGAs can fit more specific markets by integrating more hard cores. This is a trend. However, compared with similar solutions, FPGAs are programmable and inherit a lot of Programmable features."

In addition to this on-chip integration, Bolsens also mentioned another revolutionary trend in the future, the use of system-in-package technology (SiP) to realize "virtual SoC". Virtual SoCs may integrate sensor arrays, processors, memory, general-purpose interfaces, mixed-signal, and high-voltage I/Os in the same package to replace large chips with hardened IP. With multiple dies, each device can use the process that works best for it, maintaining high performance while reducing cost, power, and size. Xilinx is working with several vendors to develop virtual SoCs, Bolsens said, but would not give further details.

FPGA Vendors Transform to Platform Providers

It is precisely because the functions of FPGAs are getting stronger and stronger, Bolsens pointed out that many customers can directly use our FPGAs to make very complex SoCs without worrying about IC design issues, but focus on architecture design, IP, system software and System verification and other core competencies. Bolsens further explained that this is actually a change in business model. Traditionally, system manufacturers using FPGAs need to complete the design definition and design implementation themselves, but as FPGA manufacturers can provide platform-based solutions, system manufacturers only need to focus on design Definition, design and implementation are completed by the FPGA manufacturer.

This development trend of the FPGA industry is reflected in three aspects of Xilinx's development strategy: first, at the technical level, more and more hard cores are integrated into FPGAs to face more applications; second, in the market At the third level, by reducing cost and power consumption, FPGAs can be extended from existing network/computing infrastructure, industrial, medical and military to consumer electronics, automobiles and battery-powered devices; third, in terms of products, from standard products to general IP ( DSP, embedded processing and connectivity), turnkey solutions (such as video, wireless and traffic management), and custom platforms for some markets (such as automotive electronics), step by step. "We want to have solutions from general-purpose commodity devices all the way to very specialized vertical markets," Bolsens said.

Xilinx welcomes FPGA to specialization and SoC development

Although communication applications still account for nearly half of Xilinx's revenue, Bolsens emphasizes the growth of non-communication businesses such as consumer electronics. He said that due to the integration of the communication industry, Xilinx's communication business has grown at a compound annual growth rate of about 4% in the past five years, while its non-communication business is about 30%! He also said that, in addition to CPLDs, FPGAs will gradually be used in battery-powered devices, first of all those more complex devices such as high-end cameras.

As FPGAs evolve towards specialized and complex SoCs, FPGA vendors as platform providers need to provide not only hardware, but also a greater focus on software and applications, all with the help of an ecosystem: not only Xilinx's own customer support team , as well as a network of third-party developers, university programs, and startups.

FPGA is moving towards SoC and specialization, which also shows that traditional software programmable and hardware programmable are moving towards integration. Bolsens agrees with this trend. Bolsens pointed out to the reporter of "International Electronic Business": "Yes, in the future, software and hardware programmability will eventually converge, which is also one of the focuses of our future development at Xilinx. We provide C-based FPGA design tools, as well as investment A lot of third-party partners, that is, when customers finally use FPGAs, it feels like they are using software.”

He also pointed out that triple play/triple play (Triple Play) is the best opportunity for future FPGAs, including the high-performance Virtex series for infrastructure, and the low-cost Spartan series for clients. He explained that digital signal processing (processing data), packet processing (transmitting data) and mass metering (analyzing data) are the three key technologies that enable Triple Play, which happens to provide powerful DSP functions, interconnect functions and computing functions. FPGA advantages. He laughed: "In the future, there may be an FPGA in every electronic product, and you may not realize that you are using an FPGA.

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