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A brief introduction to Xilinx Spartan-7

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A brief introduction to Xilinx Spartan-7

The Xilinx Spartan-7 device adopts a small package and provides the industry's highest performance-to-watt ratio to meet the most demanding requirements. These devices are built with 28nm technology and are ideal for industrial, consumer, and automotive applications, including applications such as arbitrary connectivity, sensor fusion, and embedded vision.


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The logical structure is the core of all FPGA architectures. The logic unit is a unified measurement standard for device capacity and function. If designers want to understand what can be done with a device, they also need to have a deep understanding of the building blocks.


Tools needed to carry out the design


Vivado IDE has been leading the industry in providing simple, push-button design methods, and can provide many advanced features to help designers quickly build FPGA and SoC-oriented designs. Many design reuse functions can be used to package a part of the design or IP built for a certain device or a series so that it can be reused in another device or series with a similar architecture in the future. For example, designers can create IP cores used in Spartan-7 FPGAs. With the continuous improvement of system requirements, designers can reuse this IP core in Artix-7 FPGA.


Vivado Design Suite supports VHDL 2008, Verilog, and System Verilog, allowing users to choose their favorite language to input RTL designs. After the design is created, a variety of debugging and verification tools can be used to ensure correct functionality, including a free mixed-language simulation tool (no code line restrictions).


The free Vivado HL WebPACK Edition supports all production-grade Spartan-7 devices, providing these devices with the fastest and lowest cost tools.

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