Xilinx HardWire Arrays complement the flexibility and time-to-market advantage of our programmable FPGA technologies. By providing customers with a transparent, no-risk migration path to dramatic cost reduction without the engineering burden associated with conventional gate array re-design, Xilinx can offer an extremely high production volume solution at a competitive cost. Download the Xilinx ASIC Estimator to compare product development costs between Xilinx FPGAs, HardWire Arrays, and Gate Array ASIC Solutions.
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Programmable elements of the FPGA are removed in the HardWire Array resulting in a significantly smaller and lower cost die as illustrated above for an XC3000 series HardWire conversion. Functionality is precisely maintained. |