ONE GENERATION –
MULTIPLE DOMAIN
All the Choice You Need to Solve Any Design Challenge
With the introduction of the Spartan™-3AN and Spartan-3A DSP platforms, the Spartan-3 Generation of FPGAs
now offers a choice of five platforms, each delivering a unique cost-optimized balance of programmable logic,
connectivity, and dedicated hard IP for your low-cost applications.
Mainstream FPGAs
Multiple platforms — Each optimized to a specific application domain for lowest system cost
• Spartan-3A platform — For applications where I/O count and capabilities matter more than logic density
• Ideal for bridging, differential signaling and memory interfacing applications
• Spartan-3E platform — For applications where logic densities matter more than I/O count
• Ideal for logic integration, DSP co-processing and embedded control
• Spartan-3 platform — For applications where both high logic density and high I/O count are important
• Ideal for highly integrated data-processing applications
Logic
I/Os
Spartan-3 Generation FPGAs
-OPTIMIZED PLATFORMS
Non-Volatile FPGAs
Delivering the Best of Both Worlds
Non-Volatile Secure FPGAs for Highest System Integration
• Spartan-3AN Platform — For applications where non-volatile system
integration, security or large user Flash is required
• Breakthrough marriage of uncompromised SRAM FPGA and
Flash technologies
• Outperforms non-volatile FPGAs with unparalleled Flash reliability
combined with performance and features previously available
only in SRAM FPGAs
• Industry-leading security helps prevent reverse engineering, cloning,
and unauthorized overbuilding
• Superior system flexibility with up to 11 Mb of on-chip user Flash
Digital Signal Processing FPGAs
Breakthrough Price for High Performance DSP
• Spartan-3A DSP Platform — For applications where integrated
DSP MACs and expanded memory are required
• Supports high-density designs with up to 53K logic cells and
robust on-chip memory
• Over 20 GMACS DSP performance for under $30 utilizing
cost-optimized integrated DSP48A slices
• Ideal for designs requiring low-cost FPGAs for signal processing
applications such as military radio, surveillance cameras,
medical imaging, etc.
• Significant gains in application efficiency using highly
parallel architectures
Algorithmic Complexity – As demand for processing power rapidly increases, sequential
processing cannot support algorithmic complexities within required response times.
To overcome these architectural limitations, the parallel processing offered by Virtex™ DSP
and Spartan™ DSP FPGAs is essential.
THE LOWEST TOTAL-COST.
Up to 50% Lower Total Cost
Lowest cost devices for your application
• Industry’s largest selection of low-cost devices and packages
• Allows an optimal match for any customer requirement
• Small form-factor packages for extremely cost-sensitive consumer applications
Reduced Bill of Materials cost
• High on-chip integration reduces number of external components including
voltage regulators, buffers, and line drivers
• More tolerant Vcc specification allows use of inexpensive voltage regulators
• Noise-resistant circuits eliminate or minimize need for expensive filtering
components such as ferrite beads and decoupling capacitors
Cost-effective engineering design
Competitive Solution
• Fewer components simplify and shrink board designs
• Comprehensive IP library (8X bigger than nearest competitor),
extensive portfolio of boards/kits and software tools
significantly reduce time-to-market
Lower Inventory and manufacturing costs
• Fewer components minimize ordering, reduce material
holding cost, and simplify logistics
• Use of standard components allow reuse of excess inventory
Improved quality and reliability
• Decreased PCB complexity with fewer components,
Spartan Low-cost Solution
lower layer count and increased signal integrity
• Reduced device count significantly decreases failures
from misalignment and cold solder joint failures, etc.
Spartan-3 Generation FPGAs
.
PERIOD.
Lower Power, Lower Cost
On-chip power management
• No complex design requirements
• Fewer external components such as heat sinks, fans, etc.
• Suspend Mode lowers static power by more than 40%
• Hibernate Mode offers maximum power savings by
lowering static power by up to 99%
Industry-leading power management tools
• ISE™ 10.1 delivers automatic dynamic power reduction
• XPower analyzer tools with full environment, voltage,
and worst-case evaluation
Robust, Low-cost Design Security
Helps prevent unauthorized manufacturing
• Protects revenues from cloning, overbuilding and reverse-engineering
• Design security to safeguard both hardware and software IP
• Cost-based flexible security solutions based on unique requirements
• Unique Device DNA serial number
• Customizable algorithms for security as well as responses to failures
The Right Fit for the Right Application
The comprehensive portfolio of Spartan platforms allows customers to choose the best solution for their unique design requirements.
Platform
Spartan-3
Spartan-3E
Spartan-3A
Spartan-3AN
Spartan-3A DSP
Cost Optimization
High logic density and
I/O count
Logic density
I/O count & Capabilities
Non-volatile Capabilities
DSP Capabilities
Ideal Applications
High logic and I/O densities– Lowest-cost density–
highly integrated datalogic integration, DSP
processing
co-processing, embedded
control
Wide or multiple interfaces– Space-critical or secure
bridging, differential
applications as well as low
signaling, memory interfaces cost embedded controllers
Signal Processing
applications such as
military radio, cameras,
medical imaging, etc.
Logic Cells
1,728 to 74,880
2,160 to 33,192
1,584 to 25,344
1,584 to 25,344
37,440 to 53,712
I/Os
63 to 633
66 to 376
108 to 502
108 to 502
309 to 519
User Flash
—
—
—
Up to 11Mb
—
Security
External with secure PROM
External with secure PROM
Internal with Device DNA
Internal with on-chip
configuration, Device DNA,
and Factory Flash ID
Internal with Device DNA
Power
Management
• XPower Analyzer and
Web Power Tools
• XPower Estimator and
XPower Analyzer Tools
• Suspend–more than
• Suspend–more than
• Suspend–more than
40% reduction
• Hibernate–up to
99% reduction
• XPower Estimator and
XPower Analyzer Tools
40% reduction
• Hibernate–up to
99% reduction
• XPower Estimator and
XPower Analyzer Tools
99% reduction
• XPower Estimator and
XPower Analyzer Tools
40% reduction
• Hibernate–up to
SelectIO™
Technology
• Supports 24 differential
and single-ended I/O
standards
• Up to 24mA drive
• DDR and DDR2
memory interfaces
• Supports 18 differential
and single-ended I/O
standards
• Enhanced differential
signaling with on-chip
termination
• Up to 16mA drive
• DDR memory interfaces
• Supports 26 differential
and single-ended I/O
standards
• Enhanced differential
signaling with on-chip
termination
• TMDS, PPDS, RSDS, LVDS,
DDR, DDR2 and SSTL3
class I & II
• Full 3.3V and hot swap
compliance
• Supports 26 differential
and single-ended I/O
standards
• Enhanced differential
signaling with on-chip
termination
• TMDS, PPDS, RSDS, LVDS,
DDR, DDR2 and SSTL3
class I & II
• Full 3.3V and hot swap
compliance
• Supports 26 differential
and single-ended I/O
standards
• Enhanced differential
signaling with on-chip
termination
• TMDS, PPDS, RSDS, LVDS,
DDR, DDR2 and SSTL3
class I & II
• Full 3.3V and hot swap
compliance
DSP Resources
• Embedded 18 x 18
• Pipelined, embedded
• Pipelined, embedded
• Pipelined, embedded
• Integrated XtremeDSP™
multipliers
• 18 Kbit dual-port RAM
• Distributed RAM and
shift registers
18 x 18 multipliers
• 18 Kbit dual-port RAM
• Distributed RAM and
shift registers
18 x 18 multipliers
• 18 Kbit dual-port RAM
• Distributed RAM and
shift registers
18 x 18 multipliers
• 18 Kbit dual-port RAM
• Distributed RAM and
shift registers
• DSP48A provides an
18-bit x 18-bit multiplier,
18-bit pre-adder, 48-bit
post-adder/accumulator
• Platform Flash with
full support
• Parallel Flash with
MultiBoot plus watchdog
• SPI Flash
• JTAG and ISE tool support
• Platform Flash with
full support
• Parallel Flash with
MultiBoot plus watchdog
• SPI Flash
• JTAG and ISE tool support
• Platform Flash with
full support
• Parallel Flash with
MultiBoot plus watchdog
• SPI Flash
• JTAG and ISE tool support
Configuration
• Platform Flash, with easy • Platform Flash with
in-system reprogramma- full support
• Parallel Flash with
bility, and compression
• JTAG and ISE™
MultiBoot
• SPI Flash
tool support
• JTAG and ISE tool support
Fast,
Flexible
System
Implement Customizable Low-Cost Solutions
with Pre-Engineered IP
Optimized silicon and application-specific IP enables optimized
solutions with popular low-cost interface standards.
PCI Express®
• Fully-compliant to PCIe® Specification v1.1
• Starter Kit for PCI Express including development board
• LogiCORE™ PIPE Endpoint for PCI Express
• Reference Design with third-party PHY
• Bundled solution pricing
PCI ™ 33 and 66MHz, fully PCI 3.0-compliant
• PCI32 and PCI64 LogiCORE IP cores
• Customizable back-end functionality
Ethernet
• Designed to the IEEE 802.3-2002 specification for 1000 Mbps,
100 Mbps, and 10 Mbps modes
• Customizable LogiCORE Tri-Mode Ethernet MAC
• Integrates with the Ethernet 1000BASE-X PCS/PMA or SGMII
LogiCORE for implementation of Ethernet Link and Physical layers
• Trimode Ethernet MAC and Ethernet Lite Peripherals for
Embedded Processing Applications
DSP
SPI-4.2, functionally compliant with OIF and SATURN® specifications
• FEC blocks including Viterbi, Reed Solomon, Convolution
Encoder and standard specific IP blocks such as WIMAX,
W-CDMA, DOCSIS
• Video Codecs: MPEG4, H.264, etc.
Embedded Processing
• SPI4.2(PL4) Lite LogiCORE delivers Sink and Source cores selected
and configured through Xilinx CORE Generator™
CAN, designed to ISO 11898-1, CAN2.0A and CAN2.0B specifications
• User-configurable CAN LogiCORE IP
• Stand-alone mode or connected to Xilinx MicroBlaze processor
• Customizable 32-bit MicroBlaze soft processor with complete
™
set of Peripheral IP cores
• Platform Studio tool suite simplifies embedded processing
system design
• Comprehensive embedded software tools & RTOS
ecosystem providers
• Small footprint PicoBlaze for 8-bit controller for assembly
programmed applications
Memory Interfaces
Dynamic Input Delay Technology and the Memory Interface Generator
tool make it easy to build reliable interfaces to the latest low-cost
memories, including DDR2 and DDR
Memory Device Electrical Interface
Clock Rate Data Rate
DDR2 SDRAM
SSTL 1.8V
200 MHz
400 Mbps
DDR SDRAM
SSTL 2.5V
166 MHz
333 Mbps
Over 300 IP Blocks Available Today – www.xilinx.com/ipcenter
Spartan-3 Generation FPGAs
Integration
Accelerate Time-to-Market with Development Boards and Starter Kits
The Spartan boards and Starter Kits provide a complete development solution giving designers
instant access to the capabilities of the Spartan FPGAs. The Starter Kit includes a development board,
power supply with universal adaptors, and much more.
Board/Kit
Part numbers
Price
Spartan-3AN Starter Kit
HW-SPAR3AN-SK-UNI-G
$199
Spartan-3A Starter Kit
HW-SPAR3A-SK-UNI-G
$189
Spartan-3E Starter Kit
HW-SPAR3E-SK-UNI-G
$149
Spartan-3 Starter Kit
HW-SPAR3-SK-UNI-G
$149
Spartan-3A DDR2 SDRAM Interface Development Kit
HW-SPAR3ADDR2-DK-UNI-G
$235
Spartan-3E PCI Express Starter Kit
HW-S3PCIE-DK
$349
Automotive ECU Development Kit
HW-XA3S1600E-UNI-G
$1495
Spartan-3E Display Development Kit
HW-SPAR3E-DISP-DK-UNI-G
$1595
Embedded Development HW/SW Kit – MicroBlaze Processor Edition
DO-SD1800A-EDK-DK-UNI-G
$595
XtremeDSP Starter Platform – Spartan-3A DSP 1800A Edition
HW-SD1800A-DSP-SB-UNI-G
$295
XtremeDSP Starter Kit – Spartan-3A DSP Edition
DO-SD1800A-DSP-SK-UNI-G-PROMO
$495
XtremeDSP Development Board – Spartan-3A DSP 3400A Edition
HW-SD3400A-DSP-DB-UNI-G
$995
XtremeDSP Video Starter Kit — Spartan-3A DSP Edition
DO-S3ADSP-VIDEO-SK-UNI-G
$1595
Note: For more information on development boards, please visit www.xilinx.com/spartankits
Spartan-3A DSP Development Board
Spartan-3A Starter Kit
Flexibility and Low Cost –
The Ultimate Choice for Volume Applications
Systems designers worldwide are leveraging the unique advantages of Spartan-3 Generation FPGAs across a wide
range of end applications, adapting their products to rapidly changing interface and data standards, differentiating
functionality with minimum design time, and reducing risk as they ramp to higher production volumes.
Examples
Application Challenges
Spartan-3 Generation Advantages
Flat Panel Displays
• Panel board and video/tuner board cost
• Constantly evolving I/O requirements
• Shorter product life cycles with higher amortized
cost risk for new ASICs
• Constantly evolving, subjective image quality
requirements
• Differentiating vs. competing hardware
• 5 domain-optimized platforms for lowest-cost fit to each application
• SelectIO Technology with on-chip differential termination and widest I/O standards
compliance, including LVDS, RSDS, mini-LVDS, PPDS and TMDS
• Pre- or post-processing video enhancement, LVDS TxRx (FPDLink), and peripheral
interface bridging solutions
• TCON (timing control) and video co-processing flexibility
• Flexible peripheral interfacing and video switching
• Reference designs for precise gamma correction, image dithering, color
temperature correction and other video-enhancement functions
Set-Top Boxes
• Evolving interface standards for memory, disks,
and other components
• Managing inventory with multiple product
feature sets
• Differentiating video processing capability at
lower power and cost
• Accelerating and updating algorithms for
conditional access/security
• SelectIO Technology with support for up to 26 different I/O standards
• MultiBoot reconfigurability and density migration within a single package
• XtremeDSP Technology with industry-leading price/performance for digital
video decoding
• Fast, compact IP cores for authentication and content encryption
Wireless Access
• Low-level MAC-layer co-processing in Customer
Premises Equipment
• Forward Error Correction and DSP
co-processing efficiency
• Peripheral bridging and interfacing
• IP cores for MAC, FEC, encryption, digital up/down conversion and security
• XtremeDSP Technology with flexible high performance
• SelectIO Technology with on-chip termination and wide I/O standards support
Industrial Ethernet
and Motion Control
• Bridging multiple connectivity protocols
• Customizing PWM and control algorithms
• Accelerating motion control algorithms
• IP cores for EtherCAT, SerCOS III, CAN, Ethernet, PCI and PCI Express
• Flexible Xilinx Embedded Processing Technology
• Hardware acceleration with Fast Simplex Link and XtremeDSP Technology
Automotive
• Full compliance to industry production process
and quality standards
• Interconnecting different automotive/multimedia
standards
• Extended Automotive temperature ranges, both Industrial and Q-Grade;
full PPAP support and AEC-Q100 qualification for Spartan-3 and
Spartan-3E platforms
• IP cores for bridging CAN, LIN and MOST®, as well as USB 2.O and Ethernet
• XtremeDSP Technology with industry-leading price/performance/power and IP for
filtering, edge detection, and codes
• SelectIO Technology with on-chip termination for LVDS, RSDS
and other standards
• DSP performance need for object recognition, motion
detection and advanced compression algorithms
• Changing industry standards
• Rapidly evolving technology such as automated
scene analysis
• XtremeDSP performance through parallelism in FPGA fabric
• FPGA flexibility and scalability
• Field upgradeability
Video Surveillance
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I/O optimized
Spartan-3A
Non-volatile
Spartan-3AN
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XC3SD3400A
DSP optimized
Spartan-3A DSP
XC3S50 XC3S200 XC3S400 XC3S1000 XC3S1500 XC3S2000 XC3S4000 XC3S5000 XC3S100E XC3S250E XC3S500E XC3S1200E XC3S1600E XC3S50A XC3S200A XC3S400A XC3S700A XC3S1400A XC3S50AN XC3S200AN XC3S400AN XC3S700AN XC3S1400AN XC3SD1800A
Logic optimized
Optimized for High Density and High I/O Designs
Note: 1. System Gates include 20-30% of CLBs used as RAMs.
2. Numbers in table across device packages indicate maximum number of user I/Os.
3. For detailed information on device and package offerings, please check the data sheet for the specific platform at www.xilinx.com/spartan
* Integrated in the DSP48A slices (Advanced Multiply Accumulate Element)
FG900 31 x 31 mm
FG676 27 x 27 mm
CS484 19 x 19 mm
FG484 23 x 23 mm
FG456 23 x 23 mm
FG400 21 x 21 mm
FG320 19 x 19 mm
FT256 17 x 17 mm
PQ208 30.6 x 30.6 mm
TQ144 22 x 22 mm
CP132 8 x 8 mm
VQ100 16 x 16 mm
Max Diff. I/O Pairs
Max Single Ended I/O
User Flash Bits
DCMs
Distributed RAM Bits
Block RAM Bits
Block RAM Blocks
Dedicated Multipliers
Logic Cells
System Gates
Part Number
Spartan-3E
Spartan-3
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