As the number of devices and sensors connected at the edge increases, the demand for secure devices capable of managing substantial data volumes grows. The new AMD Spartan™ UltraScale+ FPGA family offers designers a solution, providing power efficiency and advanced security features to navigate these challenges efficiently. Microchip USA enhances this offering by delivering cost-optimized solutions ensuring that designers can implement these advanced FPGAs at a lower cost.
The Spartan UltraScale+ Family with densities ranging from 11K to 218K logic cells and up to 572 I/Os, offers versatile solutions suitable for various applications, including I/O expansion, board management, sensor processing, and control. Leveraging the UltraScale™ architecture, these 16 nm FPGAs complement AMD’s portfolio of cost-optimized devices, such as the Artix™ UltraScale+, Artix 7, Spartan 7, and Spartan 6 FPGAs. Additionally, the Spartan UltraScale + Family is supported by the AMD Vivado™ design tools, providing a reliable and efficient option for your next project, ensuring robust performance across various use cases.
Product Advantages
High I/O, Low Power and State of the Art Security Features
Spartan UltraScale+ FPGAs combine high I/O, low-power consumption, and state-of-the-art security features, offering the industry’s highest I/O-to-logic cell ratio for FPGAs built on 28 nm and lower process technologies. The 16 nm FinFET process reduces total power consumption by up to 30% compared to previous generations.
Faster Design Convergence with Design Tools
These FPGAs benefit from the robust Vivado™ Design Suite, a proven tool in production since 2012, which streamlines the design process from simulation to verification across the entire FPGA portfolio.
Design with a Trusted Supplier
With nearly 40 years of experience in the FPGA industry and billions of devices shipped, AMD ensures design longevity with over 15 years of product lifecycle and in-field upgradeability, allowing designers to build with confidence in a trusted supplier.
Features and Benefits
Flexible I/O Interfaces
Spartan UltraScale+ FPGAs provide a high number GPIOs, accommodating both legacy and emerging protocols, along with 16.3 Gb/s transceivers ideal for networking, video, and vision applications. These devices also adhere to industry standards like PCIe® Gen4, 10 GE Vision, CoaXPress 2.1, and 12G-SDI, enabling faster time to market.
Low Power
Built on a 16 nm architecture, Spartan UltraScale+ FPGAs deliver up to a 30% reduction in total power consumption compared to earlier 28 nm devices at lower densities. For larger density devices, which feature hardened DDR and PCIe interface IP, power efficiency is improved by up to 60% compared to previous 28 nm devices, significantly enhancing overall system performance.
State of the Art Security
Spartan UltraScale+ FPGAs deliver robust, multi-layered security, featuring NIST-approved post-quantum cryptography, unique device identification through physical unclonable functions, permanent tamper protection, side-channel attack defense using DPA countermeasures, and flexible AES-GCM decryption to address evolving threats.
Hardened Memory Controller
Enhancing energy efficiency, performance is further improved by the inclusion of hard IPs like the hardened LPDDR4x/5 memory controller available in select devices. This memory controller enables direct, high-throughput access to memory at speeds up to 4.2 Gb/s, while also reducing FPGA fabric resource usage for critical design blocks.
MIPI and LVDS Performance
Featuring FPGAs with up to 3.2 Gb/s of MIPI performance, the Spartan UltraScale+ family is well-suited for advanced camera sensor capture and display applications. Complete MIPI IP and reference design solutions are readily available. Additionally, the family’s LVDS performance supports a variety of other protocols, including SLVS-EC for CMOS image sensors.
Scalability
The AMD Spartan UltraScale+ architecture, based on TSMC’s 16 nm low-power FinFET process, offers scalability to other 16 nm families within the broader portfolio. Developers can leverage the same IP, tool flow, and ecosystem, preserving design investment and enabling a reusable platform across multiple products.
Highlights
High I/O Count
- High I/O count across portfolio – 304 to 572 GPIO
- Three GPIO types to cover a wide range of requirements: High Density I/O (HDIO) up to 3.3V, High-Performance I/O (HPIO) up to 1.8V, and XP5IO up to 1.5V, supporting 3200 Mb/s MIPI and 1800 Mb/s LVDS
MIPI Support
- Up to 3200 Mb/s supporting advanced vision sensors (MIPI, SLVS-EC)
- Up to 4-lane MIPI channels supported
High-Performance Transceivers
- GTH transceivers supporting up to 16.3 Gb/s
- Single oscillator for fabric and SerDes eliminates extra clocking components
PCI Express Gen4 Support
- PCI Express Gen4 x8 support
- DMA IP further simplifies interfacing
Versatile Memory
- On-Chip Memory: Block RAM for low latency, high throughput, and UltraRAM provides massive on-chip memory
- External Memory: LPDDR4x and LPDDR5 via hardened memory controllers up to 4266 Mb/s, and DDR4 soft memory controller IP up to 2400 Mb/s
Integrated Hard IP
- PCIe Gen4 x8
- LPDDR4x/5 Memory Controller
- Platform Management Controller
State of the Art Security Features
- Offers the most security features3 of any AMD cost-optimized FPGA product
- PQC with NIST-approved algorithms and AES-GCM for secure configuration
- Each device is unique and identifiable through Physical Unclonable Function
Enhanced Programmable Logic Architecture
- Based on proven TSMC’s 16 nm FinFET+ process
- Voltage scaling to tune power and performance on the same device
- Enhanced CLB/LUTs, routing, and ASIC-class clocking for high utilization
Applications
The AMD Spartan Ultra Scale+ Family supports a wide range of applications, including:
Flexible I/O for Machine Vision
Spartan UltraScale+ FPGAs deliver low-latency interfacing and processing for a variety of sensors and connectivity standards in machine vision systems used in industrial and medical applications. This FPGA family is also compatible with a broad range of communication protocols and is available in compact, low-power devices.
Features
- Small Form Packaging
- Sensor Compatibility
- Optimal Combination of On-chip Memory and DSP Resources
- Reduced Power Consumption
- Transceiver and PCle
- Flexible I/O
- The Most AMD Security Features Available
Key Applications
- Factory Automation Cameras
- Frame Grabber
- Advanced Visualization in Surgical and Diagnostics
Versatile Data Acquisition for Industrial and Healthcare
AMD Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA provides flexible I/Os, on-chip memory, and efficient edge processing. Its low power consumption, scalable networking, and advanced security features make it an ideal choice for applications such as sensor aggregation and point-of-care medical systems.
Features
- I/O Scalability
- Integrated RAM
- Built in DDR Memory Controller
- Support for MIPI D-PHY
- Functional Safety Certified Design Flow
- Small Footprint Packages
- Works with MicroBlaze Soft Processors
Key Applications
- Aggregation of Sensor Data
- Scalable Networking Frontend
- Safe I/O and Control Architectures
- Point of Care Medical Systems
Cost Effective I/O Expansion and Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) for Data Center
The AMD Spartan UltraScale+ offers solutions like power management, flexible I/O, and reference designs, such as a general board management controller, to meet the needs of the data center server I/O market. The Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA family is designed to scale alongside a variety of server host processor motherboards and board management controller cards.
Accelerating Broadcasting Efficiency for Video Capture Cards
Featuring PCIe® Gen4 and hard memory controllers for LPDDR4x/5, the AMD Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA family efficiently ingests and transfers high-quality baseband video. The combination of real-time transfer and high-efficiency processing enhances video capture and streamlines the broadcasting workflow.
For assistance choosing the right AMD Spartan UltraScale+ part for your next project check out the AMD Ultra Scale+ FPGAs Product Selection Guide
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