Breakthrough design combined with advanced manufacturing: AMD Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA family brings superior performance and security features to cost-sensitive edge applications
Recently, AMD launched the Spartan UltraScale+ series FPGA products, tailor-made for cost-sensitive edge applications. Comprising nine products ranging from SU10P to SU200P, this series finds extensive applications in scenarios like I/O expansion, board management, Internet of Things, and industrial interconnection. Positioned as one of AMD’s most cost-optimized products, it boasts a robust security feature set. Moreover, transitioning to applications that demand high-performance interfaces, AMD’s Spartan UltraScale+ emerges as the first UltraScale+ FPGA equipped with a hardened LPDDR5 memory controller. Retaining backward compatibility with LPDDR4x, it additionally provides up to 8 PCIe Gen4 connections, leading to a remarkable total energy efficiency improvement of up to 60%.
According to AMD, Spartan UltraScale+ has created “the industry’s highest I/O logic unit ratio” in the field of FPGAs based on 28nm and below process technology, supporting a maximum of 218,000 logic units and 572 I/Os. In terms of voltage, it can support up to 3.3V, and provides 1.77~26.79Mb SRAM memory on the chip.
The Spartan UltraScale+ series achieves a 30% reduction in total power consumption compared to the previous generation 28nm products, thanks to its utilization of the mature 16nm FinFET process.
Transitioning to applications that demand high-performance interfaces, AMD’s Spartan UltraScale+ emerges as the first UltraScale+ FPGA equipped with a hardened LPDDR5 memory controller. Retaining backward compatibility with LPDDR4x, it additionally provides up to 8 PCIe Gen4 connections, leading to a remarkable total energy efficiency improvement of up to 60%.
AMD announces the release of documentation for the Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA product series, with support from relevant developer tools scheduled for the fourth quarter of this year. Samples and evaluation kits are anticipated to hit the market in the first half of 2025, marking the Spartan UltraScale+’s overall life cycle to surpass 15 years, as per AMD’s disclosure.
