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Product Specification 1
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Summary
The Xilinx Automotive (XA) Spartan®-3A DSP family of
FPGAs solves the design challenges in most high-volume,
cost-sensitive, high-performance DSP automotive
applications. The two-member family offers densities
ranging from 1.8 to 3.4 million system gates, as shown in
Ta bl e 1 .
Introduction
XA devices are available in both extended-temperature
Q-Grade (–40°C to +125°C TJ) and I-Grade (–40°C to
+100°C TJ) and are qualified to the industry recognized
AEC-Q100 standard.
The XA Spartan-3A DSP family builds on the success of the
earlier XA Spartan-3E and XA Spartan-3 FPGA families by
adding hardened DSP MACs with pre-adders, significantly
increasing the throughput and performance of this low-cost
family. These XA Spartan-3A DSP family enhancements,
combined with proven 90 nm process technology, deliver
more functionality and bandwidth per dollar than ever
before, setting the new standard in the programmable logic
industry.
Because of their exceptionally low cost,
XA Spartan-3A DSP FPGAs are ideally suited to a wide
range of automotive electronics applications, including
infotainment, driver information, and driver assistance
modules.
The XA Spartan-3A DSP family is a superior alternative to
mask programmed ASICs. FPGAs avoid the high initial
mask set costs and lengthy development cycles, while also
permitting design upgrades in the field with no hardware
replacement necessary because of its inherent
programmability, an impossibility with conventional ASICs
and ASSPs with their inflexible architecture.
Features
• Very low cost, high-performance DSP solution for
high-volume, cost-conscious applications
• 250 MHz DSP48A slices using XtremeDSP™ solution
• Dedicated 18-bit by 18-bit multiplier
• Available pipeline stages for enhanced performance of at
least 250 MHz in the standard -4 speed grade
• 48-bit accumulator for multiply-accumulate (MAC)
operation
• Integrated adder for complex multiply or multiply-add
operation
• Integrated 18-bit pre-adder
• Optional cascaded Multiply or MAC
• Dual-range VCCAUX supply simplifies 3.3V-only design
• Suspend and Hibernate modes reduce system power
• Multi-voltage, multi-standard SelectIO™ interface pins
• Up to 519 I/O pins or 227 differential signal pairs
• LVCMOS, LVTTL, HSTL, and SSTL single-ended I/O
• 3.3V, 2.5V, 1.8V, 1.5V, and 1.2V signaling
• Selectable output drive, up to 24 mA per pin
• QUIETIO standard reduces I/O switching noise
• Full 3.3V ± 10% compatibility and hot-swap compliance
• 622+ Mb/s data transfer rate per differential I/O
• LVDS, RSDS, mini-LVDS, HSTL/SSTL differential I/O
with integrated differential termination resistors
• Enhanced Double Data Rate (DDR) support
• DDR/DDR2 SDRAM support up to 266 Mb/s
• Fully compliant 32-bit, 33 MHz PCI® technology support
• Abundant, flexible logic resources
• Densities up to 53,712 logic cells, including optional shift
register
• Efficient wide multiplexers, wide logic
• Fast look-ahead carry logic
• IEEE 1149.1/1532 JTAG programming/debug port
• Hierarchical SelectRAM™ memory architecture
• Up to 2,268 Kbits of fast block RAM with byte write
enables for processor applications
• Up to 373 Kbits of efficient distributed RAM
• Registered outputs on the block RAM with operation of at
least 280 MHz in the standard -4 speed grade
• Eight Digital Clock Managers (DCMs)
• Clock skew elimination (delay locked loop)
• Frequency synthesis, multiplication, division
• High-resolution phase shifting
• Wide frequency range (5 MHz to over 320 MHz)
• Eight low-skew global clock networks, eight additional
clocks per half device, plus abundant low-skew routing
• Configuration interface to industry-standard PROMs
• Low-cost, space-saving SPI serial Flash PROM
• x8 or x8/x16 parallel NOR Flash PROM
• Unique Device DNA identifier for design authentication
• Complete Xilinx ISE® and WebPACK™ software
support plus Spartan-3A DSP FPGA Starter Kit
•MicroBlaze™ and PicoBlaze™ embedded processor
cores
• BGA packaging, Pb-free only
• Common footprints support easy density migration
58 XA Spartan-3A DSP Automotive
FPGA Family Data Sheet
DS705 (v2.0) April 18, 2011 Product Specification