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FPGA - Field Programmable Gate Array

Example: The part Ib practical classes use FPGAs from Altera: »ECAD and Architecture Practical Classes

Summary data for a Virtex 5 Xilinx FPGA:

Part number XC5VLX110T-2FFG1136C
Vendor Xilinx Inc
Category Integrated Circuits (ICs)
Number of Gates 110000
Number of I /O 640
Number of Logic Blocks/Elements 8640
Package / Case 1136-FCBGA
Operating Temperature 0C ~ 85C
Voltage - Supply 1.14 V ~ 3.45 V

Circa 2009, 65 nm technology, 6-input LUT, 64 bit DP RAMs. »https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtex_(FPGA)


Field-programmable gate array structure, showing IO blocks around the edge, interconnection matrix blocks and configurable logic blocks.
Two other types of block now always found are RAM and multipler (DSP) blocks.|fpgaplan|

13: (C) 2008-17, DJ Greaves, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory.