Spartan FPGA family
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The Spartan FPGA family is Xilinx’s low-cost, low-power line of field-programmable gate arrays designed for high-volume, cost-sensitive applications such as consumer electronics and embedded systems.
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| Spartan FPGA family canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Spartan FPGA family Context triple: [Xilinx, product, Spartan FPGA family]
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A.
Cyclone V
Cyclone V is a family of Intel (formerly Altera) mid-range FPGAs designed for cost-effective, low-power programmable logic applications.
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Cyclone IV
Cyclone IV is a family of low-cost, low-power FPGA devices from Intel (formerly Altera) designed for high-volume, cost-sensitive applications.
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FPGA
An FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) is a reconfigurable integrated circuit that can be programmed after manufacturing to implement custom digital logic functions and hardware designs.
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Altera HardCopy family
The Altera HardCopy family is a line of structured ASIC devices that provide a low-cost, high-performance, and power-efficient migration path from Altera FPGAs to volume production.
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E.
Stratix
Stratix is a high-performance family of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) designed by Altera (now part of Intel) for demanding digital logic and signal processing applications.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Spartan FPGA family Target entity description: The Spartan FPGA family is Xilinx’s low-cost, low-power line of field-programmable gate arrays designed for high-volume, cost-sensitive applications such as consumer electronics and embedded systems.
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A.
Cyclone V
Cyclone V is a family of Intel (formerly Altera) mid-range FPGAs designed for cost-effective, low-power programmable logic applications.
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B.
Cyclone IV
Cyclone IV is a family of low-cost, low-power FPGA devices from Intel (formerly Altera) designed for high-volume, cost-sensitive applications.
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C.
FPGA
An FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) is a reconfigurable integrated circuit that can be programmed after manufacturing to implement custom digital logic functions and hardware designs.
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D.
Altera HardCopy family
The Altera HardCopy family is a line of structured ASIC devices that provide a low-cost, high-performance, and power-efficient migration path from Altera FPGAs to volume production.
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E.
Stratix
Stratix is a high-performance family of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) designed by Altera (now part of Intel) for demanding digital logic and signal processing applications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
FPGA family
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Xilinx product line ⓘ |
| competesWith |
Intel Cyclone FPGA family
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Lattice ECP FPGA family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| configurableLogicType | lookup table based logic ⓘ |
| configurationMethod |
external configuration memory
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serial configuration interfaces ⓘ |
| designedFor |
consumer electronics
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cost-sensitive applications ⓘ embedded systems ⓘ high-volume applications ⓘ low-cost applications ⓘ low-power applications ⓘ |
| developer | Xilinx NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Spartan-3 family
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Spartan-3A DSP family NERFINISHED ⓘ Spartan-3A family NERFINISHED ⓘ Spartan-3AN family NERFINISHED ⓘ Spartan-3E family NERFINISHED ⓘ Spartan-6 family NERFINISHED ⓘ Spartan-II family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manufacturer | Xilinx NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| marketSegment |
cost-sensitive FPGA market
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high-volume FPGA market ⓘ |
| ownedBy | AMD NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentCompany | AMD NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| powerCharacteristic |
low dynamic power consumption
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low static power consumption ⓘ |
| predecessorOf | Artix FPGA family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productPositioning |
cost-optimized FPGA family
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low-cost FPGA line ⓘ |
| supportedBy |
Xilinx ISE design suite
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Xilinx Vivado Design Suite (for later members) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supports |
I/O standards for consumer interfaces
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VHDL NERFINISHED ⓘ Verilog NERFINISHED ⓘ clock management resources ⓘ digital signal processing ⓘ embedded memory blocks ⓘ hardware description languages ⓘ |
| technologyType | SRAM-based FPGA ⓘ |
| typicalUseCase |
cost-optimized logic integration
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glue logic in embedded systems ⓘ replacement for ASICs in low to medium volumes ⓘ |
| usedIn |
automotive electronics
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communications equipment ⓘ consumer electronics devices ⓘ embedded control applications ⓘ industrial control systems ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Spartan FPGA family Description of subject: The Spartan FPGA family is Xilinx’s low-cost, low-power line of field-programmable gate arrays designed for high-volume, cost-sensitive applications such as consumer electronics and embedded systems.
Referenced by (1)
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