Xilinx Korea (Country Manager Ahn Heung-sik) February 25, 2014 – Xilinx announced the expansion of its Artix®-7 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) family for automotive applications. The new XA Artix-7 portfolio provides best-in-class system performance in applications such as Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI), and Driver Information (DI), and expands the Xilinx® Automotive (XA) family of market-leading AEC-Q100 certified FPGAs. System designers can gain not only performance but also significant power advantages that are on a different level compared to previous technologies, as well as space advantages in space-constrained automotive Electronic Control Unit (ECU) designs.

Nick DiFiore, Director of Automotive at Xilinx, stated, “Xilinx’s XA Artix-7 devices comply with the rigorous quality and reliability standards of the automotive market. They also provide scalable solutions with the benefits of power and system integration for optimal system architecture flexibility and cost.” He added, “The XA family is suitable for automotive applications requiring advanced video processing, complex DSP operations, or connectivity based on the latest interface or networking standards.”

The XA Artix-7 family consists of a total of four devices: the XA7A35T, XA7A50T, XA7A75T, and XA7A100T. It offers 30k to 101k logic cells and industry-leading I/O, with a ratio of up to 285 I/O available in a small 10mm x 10mm package. Various integrated DSP functions provide signal processing performance of up to 264 GMACs, making it highly useful for image data processing in ADAS applications. The integrated Gigabit transceiver can transmit up to 6.25 Gbit of data per second, enabling the implementation of fully integrated connectivity solutions such as PCI Express Gen 2. The overall ECU BOM cost can be optimized through advanced features such as an integrated Analog Mixed Signal (AMS) block consisting of a 12-bit 17-channel 1 Msps Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) that includes dynamic partial reconfiguration (DPR), AES encryption, and internal temperature and supply voltage sensors.

The XA Artix-7 FPGA complements the automotive-grade XA Zynq-7000 all-programmable SoC family. These two device families are manufactured using TSMC's high-performance low-power (HPL) 28nm process and can reduce power consumption by up to 50% compared to previous and competing solutions.

Customers using the XA Artix-7 are provided with a variety of product/package combinations that allow for upscaling or downscaling designs according to demanding project requirements. Additionally, the device architecture enables seamless IP migration or complete design on or to the XA Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC.