Xilinx Korea (Country Manager: Heung-Sik Ahn) January 19, 2015 – Xilinx announced the launch of the industry's first 4M logic cell device, boasting over 50 million ASIC gates and more than four times the capacity of competing products. The newly released Virtex® UltraScale™ VU440 FPGA is ideal for prototyping and emulating next-generation ASICs and complex SOCs. Featuring 50 million ASIC gates and the industry's highest number of I/Os, the Virtex UltraScale VU440 FPGA utilizes clocking and next-generation routing methods similar to ASICs based on the UltraScale architecture. With enhanced logic blocks and high utilization, this product is suitable for ASIC prototyping or large-scale emulation.

John Koeter, Vice President of IP Marketing and Prototype at Synopsys, said, “We accelerated the development of HAPS FPGA-based prototypes using Virtex UltraScale VU440 device samples. This allowed us to complete full solutions for customers early on.” He added, “Ultrascale devices combine the unique capabilities of HAPS to enable easy integration with higher capacity and performance, allowing for the development of next-generation prototype systems that meet customer needs.”

Xilinx is pushing the limits of Moore's Law with its Virtex UltraScale VU440 FPGA and 2nd generation Stacked Silicon Interconnect (SSI) technology. By implementing SSI technology using TSMC's Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate (CoWoS) 3D IC process at the 28nm node, it has integrated multiple components into a single device to improve power and performance and resolved silicon ratio issues. In addition, the inter-die bandwidth has been increased fivefold, and UltraScale 3D IC devices using an integrated clocking architecture at slice boundaries enable a virtual monolithic design for rapid implementation and design completion.

John Goodenough, Vice President of Engineering Systems at ARM, stated, “The VU440 is a powerful device that can be used to prototype any type of ARM®-based SoC,” and explained, “The capacity and performance of Xilinx FPGAs enable multi-core prototyping even with the latest ARMv8-A architecture, which improves hardware and software development and can accelerate the launch of next-generation SoCs.”

Vertex UltraScale VU440 FPGA

The Virtex UltraScale VU440 device, setting a new industry standard, boasts unprecedented performance, system integration, and bandwidth on a single chip. As the largest in the family, it features 44 million logic cells, 1,456 user I/Os, 48 transceivers with 16.3Gb/s backplane performance, and 89Mb block RAM, delivering more than double the capacity of the industry's highest-capacity Xilinx Virtex-7 2000T device.