Spartan-3A FPGA Family: Data Sheet

The Spartan-3A family of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) XC3S50A XC3S200A XC3S400A XC3S700A XC3S1400A solves the design challenges in most high-volume, cost-sensitive, I/O-intensive electronic applications. The five-member family offers densities ranging from 50,000 to 1.4 million system Gates as shown in Table 1. The Spartan-3A family builds on the success of the earlier Spartan-3E and Spartan-3 FPGA families by increasing the amount of I/O per Logic significantly reducing the cost per I/O. New features improve system performance and reduce the cost of configuration. These Spartan-3A 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, Spartan-3A FPGAs are ideally suited to a wide range of consumer electronics applications, including Broadband access, home networking, Display projection, and digital Television equipment. The Spartan-3A family is a superior alternative to mask programmed ASICs FPGAs avoid the high initial cost, engthy development cycles, and the inherent inflexibility of conventional ASICs Also, FPGA programmability permits design upgrades in the field with no hardware replacement necessary, an impossibility with ASICs By Xilinx Corp.