EDN

Analysis: Xilinx Spartan-6 and Virtex-6

Xilinx recently introduced two new FPGA chip families, Spartan-6 and Virtex-6 that offer increased capacity and lower power consumption relative to their predecessors. For the first time, the new ...
Design-Reuse

New Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA Family Brings Low-Power and High-Speed Connectivity to Cost-Sensitive Electronic Systems

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 "The Spartan-6 ...
EDN

Avnet releases Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA evaluation and development kits

The Avnet Electronics Marketing operating group of Avnet Inc has announced the release of the Xilinx Spartan-6 LX16 FPGA evaluation kit and Spartan-6 LX150T FPGA development kit. Both kits support the ...
Design-Reuse

Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGAs Enable PCI Express Compliant System Design for Low-Power, Low-Cost Connectivity Applications

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Oct. 5, 2009 -- Xilinx (Nasdaq: XLNX) today announced that its low-cost Spartan®-6 FPGA family is compliant with the PCI Express® 1.1 specification, enabling low-risk and ...
Electronics Weekly

AMD to supply Spartan 6 FPGAs to 2030 at least

The programmable ICs were introduced originally in 2009. “Spartan 6 devices, with high IO-to-logic ratios in small form-factor packaging, continue to be well suited for customers in industrial, ...
Electronic Design

Spartan-6 FPGA Modules Push Transfer Rates Over 330 Mbytes/s

The XEM6310MT USB 3.0 FPGA modules, leveraging the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface for downloading and communication, deliver transfer rates that exceed 330 Mbytes/s. The XEM6310MT USB 3.0 FPGA modules, ...