Thankfully, a few OEMs are determined to squeeze some good life from the Spartan-6 as a farewell of sorts. We’ve already seen some interesting designs in mil-aero reconnaissance and industrial control ...

Xilinx provides a light-weight (Configuration Spartan-6 FPGA Configuration User Guide Spartan-6 FPGAs store the customized configuration data in SRAM-type internal latches. The number of configuration ...

Spartan-6 FPGA Family Integrates Ubiquitous Connectivity Standards for Broad Set of Cost-Sensitive Applications While Delivering 2X the Capability at less than 50 Percent of the Power SAN JOSE, Calif.

The Spartan-6 FPGA family is the low-power, low-cost silicon foundation for Xilinx Targeted Design Platforms. Spartan-6 FPGAs are designed for cost-sensitive applications requiring high-speed ...

The developer page gives us a look inside at the Spartan-6 FPGA that lives in the little case. We don’t often quote [Dave Jones] but we’re certain he’d call this thing ‘sex on a stick’.

Avnet’s Xilinx Spartan-6 LX75T FPGA base board with PCIe edge connector, 10/100 Ethernet PHY, and dual 128MB DDR3 SDRAM banks; Avnet Motor Control FPGA Mezzanine Adapter (FMC) module; ...

The project runs on a Spartan 6 FPGA. [Wenting] first developed the hardware to use a DualShock controller for input, and output video to a regular LCD monitor. However, work is now underway to ...

At the heart of the portable games console is a Spartan 6 FPGA by Xilinx the form of the TQFP 144 pin version for ease of soldering. “To facilitate breaking out all of the pins and getting the ...

Spartan 6 LX9 FPGA2MB RAM onboard connected to FPGA (prototype has PSRAM, may switch to DDR2)16MB Flash onboard connected to FPGA4MB PROM for FPGA configuration storage40 GPIO (with access to 2.5v ...

The PCIe DMA-Gigabit Ethernet targeted reference design is integrated and included with the Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA Connectivity Kit for $1,995. Price for the Virtex-6 FPGA Connectivity Kit is $2,995.