FPGA - Field Programmable Gate Array

Example: Last year DJ Greaves used mainly the Xilinx XC5VLX110T. There are four of these on the BEE3 Boards. (Now using ML605 card with one larger device.)

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

65 nm technology, 6-input LUT, 64 bit DP RAMs.

Field-programmable gate array structure, showing IO blocks around the edge, interconnection matrix blocks and configurable logic blocks. In recent parts, the regular structure is broken up by custom blocks, including RAMs and DSP ALUs.