Foreword: Some students are learning fpga, but you know what fpga's several major manufacturers have, and today we come to talk about the more well-known fpga several major manufacturers.
In the FPGA world, you have to know Xilinx and Altera, the two giants occupy 90% of the market. Lattice and Actel can only maintain a certain share in special areas. However, with the ever-changing FPGA market, mergers and acquisitions emerged in an endless stream, even the giant Altera was also acquired by Intel, and Lattice also acquired SiliconBlue. Even so, there is still one Achronix FPGA manufacturer that can't be overlooked.
Let's learn about it together.
First, Xilinx Xilinx official website: http://
Established: 1984
Headquarters: San Jose, California Introduction: Xilinx is a global leader in complete programmable logic solutions and is currently the #1 provider of FPGA solutions.
Development Tools: Vivado, ISE (after vivado, xilinx has not considered upgrading ISE version)
Its products include the following sections:
1. Spartan series: positioning and low-end market, the latest device is Spartan7, 28nm process, Spartan6 is 45nm process before, this series of devices is affordable, the logical scale is relatively small.
2, Artix series: Xilinx introduced Artix series products, its purpose should be as a transitional product of low-end Spartan and high-end Kintex, especially in the communication interface, compared to Spartan has a great advantage, so if the design does not only need logic resources, Instead, an advanced high-speed interface is needed. Consider the Aritix series.
3. Kintex and Virtex series are high-end products of Xilinx, including 28nm Kintex7 and Virtex7 series, and 16nm Kintex7 Ultrascale+ and Virtex7 Ultrascale+ series. Rich high-speed interface, mainly used in communications, radar, signal processing, IC verification and other high-end fields.
4. All-programmable SoC and MPSoC series, including Zynq-7000 and Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC series FPGAs, can be embedded in ARM Cortex series CPUs and gradually become popular SOPC applications.
Second, altera Atlas (do not entanglement, there are various transliteration)
Website: http://
Established: 1983
Headquarters: San Jose, California
Introduction: FPGA vendors that are well known to the industry and Xilinx, and to be acquired by Intel for $ 16.7 billion in 2015, should be a strong alliance, ready to put bigger moves, perhaps to change the entire FPGA industry, and we'll wait and see.
Product Series:
1, MAXII series MAXII series is CPLD, Altera is once famous for its CPLD, if choose CPLD, do not hesitate to use Altera, put in the difference between CPLD and FPGA, won't say much here. Later articles will be introduced.
2. Cyclone series The latest is Cyclone10, positioning and consumer products, and Spartan as competitors, logical resources and interface resources are relatively small, characterized by cost-effective.
3, Stratix series The latest for Stratix10, for high-end applications, and Xilinx's Virtex series competition.
4. The Arria series is an SOC series FPGA with a core of ARM Cotex A9. The latest technology is the 20nm process.
5, Intel's arria 10 fpga series is also very famous, we can pay attention to attention.
FPGAs that support DDR4 memory interfaces. Altera's Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs are the only FPGAs in the industry that can support this rate DDR4 memory, with 43% more memory performance than previous generation FPGAs and 10% more than competitive 20 nm FPGAs. Hardware designers can now use the latest Quartus II software v14.1 to implement 666 Mbps DDR4 memory data rates in Arria 10 FPGA and SoC designs.
Third, Lattice
Official website: http://
Established: 1983
Headquarters: Hillsboro, Oregon
Introduction: The famous supplier of programmable logic solutions, second only to Xilinx and Altera.
product description:
1, ECP series, for Lattice's own development of the FPGA series, to provide low-cost, high-density FPGA solutions, but also high-speed Serdes interface, suitable for civilian products are mostly solutions.
2. The ICE series, which was used to acquire SilioncBlue's ultra-low-power FPGA, was also used in the iPhone 7 and realized the first time that FPGAs were used in consumer products, showing how low the power consumption was.
3, Mach series, alternative CPLD, to achieve the best choice for bonding logic. As the inventor of CPLD, Lattice still excels in CPLD.
Fourth, Actel
Website: http://
Established: 1985
Headquarters: Irvine, California
Introduction: Focus on the US military and aerospace fields. The products are mainly anti-fuse structure FPGA and Flash-based FPGA, which has the advantages of high radiation resistance and high reliability. Acquired with Amerisen in 2010.
Product Introduction 1. FLASH-based general FPGA series, including PolarFire, IGLOO2, IGLOO2 three high, medium and low-end series.
2, special field application series, such as SOC-based ProASIC3 and digital-analog Fusion. Built-in ARM, AD and so on.
3, anti-fuse FPGA, mainly used for aerospace, with anti-irradiation function, can not be repeated erased, burning once a problem, the film will be scrapped. Therefore, full simulation is very necessary.
V. Achronix
Website: http://
Headquarters: Santa Clara, California
Introduction: Achronix is ​​a US high-tech company that provides high-performance, high-density FPGA solutions. Committed to the most advanced 22nm 3D FinFET technology to develop a new generation of FPGA devices.
product description:
Its Speedster22i is the world's fastest FPGA with rich interfaces such as 100G Ethernet, 100G Interlaken, PCI Express and DDR3.
Its characteristics are: large scale, low power consumption and high cost performance.
Market-oriented;
Communication, measurement, CPU acceleration and military and other fields.
Now, you have some understanding of the current fpga several major manufacturers, want to know in depth can also go to the official website to learn more. However, xilinx and altera are widely used in the market. From the perspective of learners, we should pay more attention to the design concepts and design concepts of FPGAs, instead of focusing on the operating platforms and devices used, of course. People also need to understand that this can be done smoothly. So, regardless of learning is king. Everyone, come on! ! !
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