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8 FPGA and CPLD Solutions Resource Catalog 2010

IN THE AGE OF the ﬂat panel

display, top TV manufacturers have

to be extremely innovative. They not

only have to ﬁgure out what advanced

feature set they’ll include in their next

line of TVs, they must differentiate

their TVs from a growing number of

competitors, then get those TVs to

market quickly. The most innovative

OEMs have ﬁgured out that the secret

to staying on top and keeping their

edge in the TV market is to use low-

cost Xilinx

Spartan

FPGAs instead

of ASSPs. In January, Xilinx in partnership

with distributor Tokyo Electron Device

Ltd. (TED) will make the Spartan FPGA

advantage even more clear with the

release of its Spartan-6 FPGA

Consumer Video Kit.

A few years ago, OEMs dealt with

these design and market challenges by

using one ASSP-based chip set across

multiple product lines. By creating

various software features that leverage

these chips’ internal processors, they

could quickly, though not too resound-

ingly, distinguish one TV’s feature set

from the others in their product line.

Unfortunately, a slew of competitors

followed suit and began using the

same ASSP chip sets. This limited

differentiation, forced the big OEMs to

drop price points, which signiﬁcantly

deteriorated proﬁt margins.

By switching to Spartan FPGAs,

OEMs can quickly enhance and opti-

mize the full hardware functionality

(as well as software and algorithms) of

each product and integrate the func-

tions of multiple chips into a single

FPGA—eliminating the restrictions

of an ASSP-based solution that only

allows for limited modiﬁcations. This

transition from a multichip ASSP-

based system to a single-chip FPGA-

based system saves power, space,

cooling and improves overall system

performance, while reducing overall

bill of materials cost, and, above all,

enabling end-product differentiation.

What’s more, the Spartan series’

proven reliability and reprogrammabil-

ity has helped OEMs drastically reduce

defect rates and increase margins as

well as consumer satisfaction, garner-

ing their Spartan FPGA-based ﬂat

panel displays critical acclaim from

editors and customers alike.

To build on this success in the

consumer TV market and help OEMs

and their suppliers leverage the inte-

grated 3.125Gbps serial transceivers

and other advanced features of Xilinx’s

new Spartan-6 family, in January Xilinx

will announce the availability of the

Spartan-6 FPGA Consumer Video Kit.

This easy-to-use and expandable

kit will include a baseboard along with

several FMC daughter cards, integrat-

ing soft IP logic blocks from Xilinx and

its partner TED to support emerging

and de facto high-speed display inter-

faces, including DisplayPort, V-by-One,

high-speed LVDS and HDMI. The kit

will streamline customer algorithm de-

velopment on Spartan-6 based systems

and give designers a jump on bringing

differentiated products to the market

quickly.

To learn more about the Spartan

FPGA advantage, visit the Consumer

Page at www.xilinx.com/consumer.

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By Patrick Dorsey

Spartan-6 FPGAs —The Crystal Clear

Advantage in Flat Panel TVs

About the Author: Patrick Dorsey is the Sr. Director Product Management at Xilinx Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

Contact him at [email protected]

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