DS180 (v1.13) November 30, 2012 www.xilinx.com
Advance Product Specification 1
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General Description
Xilinx® 7 series FPGAs comprise three new FPGA families that address the complete range of system requirements, ranging from low cost, small form
factor, cost-sensitive, high-volume applications to ultra high-end connectivity bandwidth, logic capacity, and signal processing capability for the most
demanding high-performance applications. The 7 series devices are the programmable silicon foundation for Targeted Design Platforms that enable
designers to focus on innovation from the outset of their development cycle. The 7 series FPGAs include:
• Artix™-7 Family: Optimized for lowest cost and power with small
form-factor packaging for the highest volume applications.
• Kintex™-7 Family: Optimized for best price-performance with a 2X
improvement compared to previous generation, enabling a new class
of FPGAs.
• Virtex®-7 Family: Optimized for highest system performance and
capacity with a 2X improvement in system performance. Highest
capability devices enabled by stacked silicon interconnect (SSI)
technology.
Built on a state-of-the-art, high-performance, low-power (HPL), 28 nm, high-k metal gate (HKMG) process technology, 7 series FPGAs enable an
unparalleled increase in system performance with 2.9 Tb/s of I/O bandwidth, 2 million logic cell capacity, and 5.3 TMAC/s DSP, while consuming 50% less
power than previous generation devices to offer a fully programmable alternative to ASSPs and ASICs. All 7 series devices share a scalable, optimized
fourth-generation Advanced Silicon Modular Block (ASMBL™) column-based architecture that reduces system development and deployment time with
simplified design portability.
Summary of 7 Series FPGA Features
• Advanced high-performance FPGA logic based on real 6-input look-
up table (LUT) technology configurable as distributed memory.
• 36 Kb dual-port block RAM with built-in FIFO logic for on-chip data
buffering.
• High-performance SelectIO™ technology with support for DDR3
interfaces up to 1,866 Mb/s.
• High-speed serial connectivity with built-in multi-gigabit transceivers
from 600 Mb/s to maximum rates of 6.6 Gb/s up to 28.05 Gb/s,
offering a special low-power mode, optimized for chip-to-chip
interfaces.
• A user configurable analog interface (XADC), incorporating dual
12-bit 1MSPS analog-to-digital converters with on-chip thermal and
supply sensors.
• DSP slices with 25 x 18 multiplier, 48-bit accumulator, and pre-adder
for high performance filtering, including optimized symmetric
coefficient filtering.
• Powerful clock management tiles (CMT), combining phase-locked
loop (PLL) and mixed-mode clock manager (MMCM) blocks for high
precision and low jitter.
• Integrated block for PCI Express® (PCIe), for up to x8 Gen3
Endpoint and Root Port designs.
• Wide variety of configuration options, including support for
commodity memories, 256-bit AES encryption with HMAC/SHA-256
authentication, and built-in SEU detection and correction.
• Low-cost, wire-bond, lidless flip-chip, and high signal integrity flip-
chip packaging offering easy migration between family members in
the same package. All packages available in Pb-free and selected
packages in Pb option.
• Designed for high performance and lowest power with 28 nm,
HKMG, HPL process, 1.0V core voltage process technology and
0.9V core voltage option for even lower power.
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7 Series FPGAs Overview
DS180 (v1.13) November 30, 2012 Advance Product Specification
Table 1: 7 Series Families Comparison
Maximum Capability Artix-7 Family Kintex-7 Family Virtex-7 Family
Logic Cells 215K 478K 1,955K
Block RAM
(1)
13 Mb 34 Mb 68 Mb
DSP Slices 740 1,920 3,600
Peak DSP Performance
(2)
929 GMAC/s 2,845 GMAC/s 5,335 GMAC/s
Transceivers 16 32 96
Peak Transceiver Speed 6.6 Gb/s 12.5 Gb/s 28.05 Gb/s
Peak Serial Bandwidth (Full Duplex) 211 Gb/s 800 Gb/s 2,784 Gb/s
PCIe Interface x4 Gen2 x8 Gen2 x8 Gen3
Memory Interface 1,066 Mb/s 1,866 Mb/s 1,866 Mb/s
I/O Pins 500 500 1,200
I/O Voltage 1.2V, 1.35V, 1.5V, 1.8V, 2.5V, 3.3V 1.2V, 1.35V, 1.5V, 1.8V, 2.5V, 3.3V 1.2V, 1.35V, 1.5V, 1.8V, 2.5V, 3.3V
Package Options Low-Cost, Wire-Bond, Lidless
Flip-Chip
Low-Cost, Lidless Flip-Chip and
High-Performance Flip-Chip
Highest Performance Flip-Chip
Notes:
1. Additional memory available in the form of distributed RAM.
2. Peak DSP performance numbers are based on symmetrical filter implementation.