United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) and Xilinx have jointly announced production qualification for Xilinx' FPGA products built using UMC's 40nm logic process technology on 12-inch wafers.

Xilinx' Virtex-6 FPGA family has been fully qualified at UMC's 12-inch fab in Taiwan, following the foundry partner's first delivery of 40nm generation devices in March 2009, according to their joint statement. The Xilinx and UMC engineering teams were able to beat the tape-out to production duration of the Virtex-5 family by a quarter.

Xilinx said its Virtex-6 FPGAs deliver 15% higher performance and 15% lower power consumption compared to competitive 40nm FPGA offerings. The 40nm FPGA family comprises three domain-optimized FPGA platforms that deliver different feature mixes, including DSP slices, memory blocks and serial transceivers supporting up to 11.2Gb/s to address a variety of customer applications.

Six out of nine Virtex-6 family base devices are currently shipping, said Xilinx, adding that all nine are scheduled to be available in production volumes by the end of second-quarter 2010.

By: DocMemory
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