Why use Xilinx FPGA XC3S500E-4FTG256I?

If you are electronics engineering designer, you may know the XC3S500E-4FTG256I chip.

 

This Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is widely used in various applications, from consumer electronics to Industrial control, aviation, military and other fields.

 

An FPGA is a semiconductor device consisting of a matrix of Configurable Logic Blocks (CLBs) connected through programmable interconnects. The user determines these interconnections by programming SRAM. A CLB can be simple (AND, OR gates, etc) or complex (a block of RAM). The FPGA allows changes to be made to a design even after the device is soldered into a PCB.

 

In this article, you will learn about some basics of the XC3S500E-4FTG256I of Xilinx, and also explore the professional way to use it and its features.

 

What Is XC3S500E-4FTG256I?

XC3S500E-4FTG256I belongs to Spartan-3E FPGA series, designed by Xilinx.

The Spartan-3E family offers a cost-effective FPGA solution with low power consumption, high performance, and advanced system-level features.

 

 

 

Xilinx Zynq FPGA

 

XC3S500E-4FTG256I features 500,000 system gates, 772 user I/Os, and 36 block RAMs.  

It operates at a maximum frequency of 400MHz and has a core voltage range of 1.14V to 1.26V.

XC3S500E-4FTG256I is commonly used in applications, such as aerospace and defense, automotive, broadcast, consumer, high-performance computing, industrial, medical, and scientific, test, and measurement.

 

 

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Features of XC3S500E-4FTG256I

• SelectIO signaling

- Up to 633 I/O pins

- Eighteen single-ended signal standards

- Eight differential signal standards including LVDS and RSDS

- Double Data Rate (DDR) support

 

• Logic resources

- Abundant logic cells with shift register capability

- Wide multiplexers

- Fast look-ahead carry logic

- Dedicated 18 x 18 multipliers

- JTAG logic compatible with IEEE 1149.1/1532

 

• SelectRAM hierarchical memory

- Up to 1,728 Kbits of total block RAM

- Up to 432 Kbits of total distributed RAM

 

• Digital Clock Manager (four DCMs)

- Clock skew elimination

- Frequency synthesis

- High-resolution phase shifting