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General Description
The Virtex®-6 family provides the newest, most advanced features in the FPGA market. Virtex-6 FPGAs are the programmable silicon
foundation for Targeted Design Platforms that deliver integrated software and hardware components to enable designers to focus on
innovation as soon as their development cycle begins. Using the third-generation ASMBL™ (Advanced Silicon Modular Block) column-
based architecture, the Virtex-6 family contains multiple distinct sub-families. This overview covers the devices in the LXT, SXT, and HXT
sub-families. Each sub-family contains a different ratio of features to most efficiently address the needs of a wide variety of advanced logic
designs. In addition to the high-performance logic fabric, Virtex-6 FPGAs contain many built-in system-level blocks. These features allow
logic designers to build the highest levels of performance and functionality into their FPGA-based systems. Built on a 40 nm state-of-the-
art copper process technology, Virtex-6 FPGAs are a programmable alternative to custom ASIC technology. Virtex-6 FPGAs offer the best
solution for addressing the needs of high-performance logic designers, high-performance DSP designers, and high-performance
embedded systems designers with unprecedented logic, DSP, connectivity, and soft microprocessor capabilities.
Summary of Virtex-6 FPGA Features
• Three sub-families:
• Virtex-6 LXT FPGAs: High-performance logic with
advanced serial connectivity
• Virtex-6 SXT FPGAs: Highest signal processing
capability with advanced serial connectivity
• Virtex-6 HXT FPGAs: Highest bandwidth serial
connectivity
• Compatibility across sub-families
• LXT and SXT devices are footprint compatible in
the same package
• Advanced, high-performance FPGA Logic
• Real 6-input look-up table (LUT) technology
• Dual LUT5 (5-input LUT) option
• LUT/dual flip-flop pair for applications requiring rich
register mix
• Improved routing efficiency
• 64-bit (or two 32-bit) distributed LUT RAM option
per 6-input LUT
• SRL32/dual SRL16 with registered outputs option
• Powerful mixed-mode clock managers (MMCM)
• MMCM blocks provide zero-delay buffering,
frequency synthesis, clock-phase shifting, input-
jitter filtering, and phase-matched clock division
•36-Kb block RAM/FIFOs
• Dual-port RAM blocks
• Programmable
- Dual-port widths up to 36 bits
- Simple dual-port widths up to 72 bits
• Enhanced programmable FIFO logic
• Built-in optional error-correction circuitry
• Optionally use each block as two independent
18 Kb blocks
• High-performance parallel SelectIO
™ technology
• 1.2 to 2.5V I/O operation
• Source-synchronous interfacing using
ChipSync™ technology
• Digitally controlled impedance (DCI) active
termination
• Flexible fine-grained I/O banking
• High-speed memory interface support with
integrated write-leveling capability
• Advanced DSP48E1 slices
• 25 x 18, two's complement multiplier/accumulator
• Optional pipelining
• New optional pre-adder to assist filtering
applications
• Optional bitwise logic functionality
• Dedicated cascade connections
• Flexible configuration options
• SPI and Parallel Flash interface
• Multi-bitstream support with dedicated fallback
reconfiguration logic
• Automatic bus width detection
• System Monitor capability on all devices
• On-chip/off-chip thermal and supply voltage
monitoring
• JTAG access to all monitored quantities
• Integrated interface blocks for PCI Express
® designs
• Compliant to the PCI Express Base Specification
2.0
• Gen1 (2.5 Gb/s) and Gen2 (5 Gb/s) support with
GTX transceivers
• Endpoint and Root Port capable
• x1, x2, x4, or x8 lane support per block
• GTX transceivers: up to 6.6 Gb/s
• Data rates below 480 Mb/s supported by
oversampling in FPGA logic.
• GTH transceivers: 2.488 Gb/s to beyond 11 Gb/s
• Integrated 10/100/1000 Mb/s Ethernet MAC block
• Supports 1000BASE-X PCS/PMA and SGMII
using GTX transceivers
• Supports MII, GMII, and RGMII using SelectIO
technology resources
• 2500Mb/s support available
• 40 nm copper CMOS process technology
• 1.0V core voltage (-1, -2, -3 speed grades only)
• Lower-power 0.9V core voltage option (-1L speed
grade only)
• High signal-integrity flip-chip packaging available in
standard or Pb-free package options
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Virtex-6 Family Overview
DS150 (v2.4) January 19, 2012 Product Specification
