The Spartan®-XL Family of FPGAs is the only complete line of low cost FPGAs that feature on-chip RAM and broad support for predefined cores. The Spartan-XL products are available in densities ranging from 5,000 to 40,000 system gates. The new Spartan-II Family extends the Spartan Series to 200,000 gates.

New Applications

ASIC Replacement for High Volume Applications	New Applications in Existing Markets
PC peripherals	Portable phones
Automotive cabin controls and GPS systems	Network interface cards
Digital television	Handsets
Video acquisition and editing	Digital modems
Badge and credit card readers	Computer interface boards

Low Price

Pricing for the XCS05XL now begins at $2.49 for 250,000-unit quantities, with the XCS40XL at $7.40 in the same quantities. The new Spartan-II Family continues to dramatically reduce cost.

Spartan-XL Family New Features

Low Power and Power Down

By reducing the power supply to 3.3V, the Spartan-XL Family consumes less than half the power of the 5V devices. A PowerDown pin reduces ICC to 100 microamps typical and 2.5 milliamps maximum.

High Speed

The Spartan-XL Family offers extremely high speed. The dedicated carry logic for counters and arithmetic applications has been optimized for speed, allowing counters to run well over 120 MHz.

SelectRAM Flexibility

The Spartan-XL Family is the only ASIC replacement FPGA family that offers on-chip user RAM, in the form of SelectRAM memory. This distributed RAM can be used for efficient FIFOs, shift registers, and scratch pad memories.

Software Support

The Spartan-XL Family, with all its new features, is fully supported by version 2.1i of the Xilinx Alliance and Foundation development systems. In addition, there are several core solutions available today for the Spartan-XL Family, including a 33 MHz, 32 bit PCI master/slave LogiCORE solution. A programmable option on the Spartan-XL device allows compliance with either 3.3V or 5V PCI interfaces.

High Value Applications with Spartan-XL Family

Core Function	XCS30XL Price	Percentage of Device Used	Effective Function Cost
UART	$5.50	17%	$0.95
16-bit RISC Processor	$5.50	36%	$2.00
16-bit, 16-tap Symmetrical FIR Filter	$5.50	27%	$1.50
Reed-Solomon Encoder	$5.50	6%	$0.35
PCI Interface (in PQ208 package)	$6.55	45%	$2.95

Chip Scale Packaging Saves Space

The Spartan-XL FPGA family is available in 144-ball and 280-ball, 0.8-millimeter pitch chip scale packages. Xilinx is the first programmable logic supplier to offer the CSP package for an FPGA that meets the JEDEC Level 3 moisture sensitivity level requirements. This level of reliability enables customers to reduce standard manufacturing cycle times and further minimize overall system cost. See the High-Volume Package Solutions Guide for more details.

Spartan-XL Devices

	XCS05XL	XCS10XL	XCS20XL	XCS30XL	XCS40XL
System Gates*	2K-5K	3K-10K	7K-20K	10K-30K	13K-40K
Logic Cells**	238	466	950	1,368	1,862
Max Logic Gates	3,000	5,000	10,000	13,000	20,000
Flip-Flops	360	616	1,120	1,536	2,016
Max RAM bits	3,200	6,272	12,800	18,432	25,088
Max Available I/O	77	112	160	192	224
Packages	PC84	PC84
	VQ100	VQ100	VQ100	VQ100
		CS144	CS144
		TQ144	TQ144	TQ144
			PQ208	PQ208	PQ208
				PQ240	PQ240
				BG256	BG256
				CS280	CS280
* 20-30% of CLBs as RAM ** 1 Logic Cell = 4-input Look-Up Table + Flip-Flop