Xilinx announced the availability of the Xilinx Automotive (XA ) Family, a new line of FPGA and CPLD solutions designed specifically to meet the Automotive Electronics Council AEC-Q100 qualification flow, the Automotive Industry's Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) provision, and the compliance to the ISO-TS16949 specification. The XA line consists of both FPGA and CPLD devices. The FPGA devices are available in densities ranging from 50.000 to 1.000,000 system gates in a variety of packages and the CPLD devices range in density from 32 to 256 macrocells with I/O ranging from 33 to 184. The devices operate over the extended temperate range with both Q-Grade and I-Grade devices. The XA product line is complimented by a suite of intellectual property (IP) optimized for the automotive market, including communications and connectivity cores, such as Controller Area Network (CAN) and Local Interconnect Network (LIN) IP cores provided by Xilinx AllianceCORE partners, as well as a variety of reference designs.
All XA devices are currently sampling. The XA series Spartan-3 FPGAs start at under 4,50US$ for 50.000 system gates, while the CoolRunner-II CPLDs start at under 1,25US$for 32 Macrocells for production volumes of 25000 units/year starting in first half of 2005. Volume production quantities of AEC-Q100 automotive qualified XA devices will be available beginning in the first quarter of 2005 starting with Spartan-IIE and select Spartan-3 devices. The remaining Spartan-3 FPGA and Flash PROM devices will be available in production quantities in the second quarter 2005, followed by the CoolRunner-II CPLD and 9500XL XA devices in the third quarter of 2005.
The Xilinx eSP web portal dedicated specifically to the design and development of automotive applications provides a comprehensive resource for system designers, delivering a array of solutions and information.
