Introduction

Microchip IGLOO® 2 FPGAs integrate the fourth-generation Flash-based FPGA fabric and high-performance communication interfaces on a single chip. The IGLOO 2 family is the industry’s lowest power, most reliable, and highest security programmable logic solution. This next generation IGLOO 2 architecture offers up to 3.6X gate count implemented with the 4-input Look-Up Table (LUT) fabric with carry chains, giving 2X performance, and includes multiple embedded memory options and math blocks for Digital Signal Processing (DSP). High-speed serial interfaces include PCI Express (PCIe), 10 Gbps Attachment Unit Interface (XAUI)/XGMII Extended Sublayer (XGXS) plus native Serialization/Deserialization (SerDes) communication, while Double Data Rate 2 (DDR2)/DDR3 memory controllers provide high-speed memory interfaces.