Xilinx Korea (General Manager Ahn Heung-sik) January 28, 2014 – Xilinx announced that it has completed development of the first Virtex® UltraScale™ device at 20 nanometers, once again achieving an industry first. The Virtex UltraScale product family, the industry's only high-end 20-nanometer offering based on UltraScale architecture, delivers unprecedented performance, system integration, and bandwidth for a wide variety of applications. This UltraScale architecture adopts multiple ASIC techniques and new routing architecture, eliminating next-generation interconnect bottlenecks and scaling bottlenecks, thereby delivering ASIC-class advantages to customers. This UltraScale architecture extends from 20-nanometer planar to 16-nanometer FinFET technology and from monolithic to 3D IC.

The VU095, the first Virtex UltraScale device, is based on TSMC's 20SoC process and features 940,000 logic cells and six integrated 150G Interlaken, equivalent to four 100G Ethernet cores with an additional 833,000 logic cells. Additionally, this device supports 32.75Gb/s transceiver functionality for chip-to-chip and chip-to-optic interfaces, as well as the world's first all programmable 28Gb/s backplane.

Dave Myron, Senior Director of FPGA Product Management Marketing, stated, "Through the Virtex UltraScale 20-nanometer product family based on the industry's only ASIC-class architecture, only Xilinx provides the technology required for next-generation intelligent high-performance systems." He added, "Once again delivering 1.5 to 2 times the system performance and integration one generation ahead of competitors, the Virtex UltraScale product family represents the optimal choice among current ASIC, ASSP, and FPGA options."

The Virtex UltraScale VU095 is ideal for high-end wired communication infrastructure applications such as 4x100G transponders and 4x100G MAC-to-Interlaken bridges, as well as applications including test and measurement, aerospace, defense, and high-performance computing.

Kintex® UltraScale™ devices are currently available as samples, and the first Virtex UltraScale VU095 device is scheduled to be released in the second quarter of this year. UltraScale is supported in the Vivado® Design Suite 2013.4 release. For more information on UltraScale architecture, visit www.xilinx.com/ultrascale.