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Generation-jumping 2.5D Xilinx Virtex-7 2000T FPGA delivers 1,954,560 logic cells, consumes only 20WSteve Leibson - Steve LeibsonOct. 25, 2011 |
Xilinx announced today that it is shipping Virtex-7 2000T FPGAs to customers. This is one monster FPGA. Its 6.8 billion transistors deliver 1,954,560 logic cells, 21.55 Mbits of distributed SRAM, 2160 DSP slices, 46,512 block RAMs (each containing 36Kbits), four PCIe ports, 36 12.5Gbps GTX serial transceivers, and 1200 user I/O pins. All in about 20W (!!!). The only fly in the ointment, if you want to call it that, is that no one on this planet can make this FPGA as a monolithic device. The Virtex-7 FPGA is a 2.5D assembly that combines four FPGA tiles on a silicon interposer. The interposer provides 10,000 connections between each of the four FPGA tiles
