Product Attributes

　FPGAs are the way to go

　　Internet control has always been a path to autonomous driving, but in Dan Isaacs’ opinion, a distributed system where every node has computational power and intelligence is the most efficient system, and if all the computation and intelligence are concentrated in a central node or cloud, it’s not a very good solution. And although 5G has great advantages in terms of low latency and bandwidth, it is still inevitably a wireless transmission, so there is bound to be an unreliable side to wireless transmission. We’ve seen many scenarios just now where if you rely on a network in that scenario, it’s still less reliable.

　　Dan Isaacs said that 5G is like infrastructure or a highway, which must be very helpful for L4 autonomous driving, but is not a panacea to solve or achieve L4 autonomous driving. It can allow some of the problems of autonomous driving to be better solved, for example, traffic light signals still have a certain error rate through vision, and it can give us a very good complement if we go through 5G and Telematics. Programmable logic processors provided by FPGAs will remain the obvious choice for the development of autonomous driving technology for a long time to come.

AMD Extends Life Cycle of All Xilinx 7 Series Devices to at Least 2035

 The 28nm AMD Xilinx 7 Series devices continue to be popular, offering world-class technology and leading-edge features to customers in the industrial, automotive, test and measurement, and medical markets. Customers in these market segments demand longer product lifetimes, typically requiring 15-year lifecycles, with many products supporting longer lifecycles.

Extending product lifecycles

With these needs in mind, AMD Xilinx is pleased to officially announce that support for all 7 Series FPGAs and Adaptive SoCs will be extended to at least 2035. This includes our cost-optimized Spartan®-7 and Artix®-7 FPGAs, our entire Zynq®-7000 SoC portfolio, and Kintex®-7 and Virtex®-7 FPGAs. all rates and temperature grades are included.

The 7 series devices are uniquely positioned in the AMD Xilinx portfolio and will remain ideal for new designs for many years to come.

- Spartan-7 FPGAs deliver high performance per unit of power in a small package

- Artix-7 FPGAs deliver high transceiver bandwidth with low power consumption

- Zynq-7000 SoCs combine the software programmability of Arm®-based processors with the hardware programmability of FPGAs