These devices are widely used offering a range of features for customers in industrial, automotive, test and measurement, aerospace and defence and medical markets. Consequently, customers in these segments are looking for extended product longevity, typically requiring lifecycles of 15 years, with many products supported much longer.
AMD is to extend support for all 7 series FPGAs and adaptive SoCs through to at least 2035. This includes cost-optimised Spartan-7 and Artix-7 FPGAs, the entire Zynq-7000 SoC portfolio, as well as Kintex-7 and Virtex-7 FPGAs. All speed and temperature grades are included.
7 series devices are seen as having a continued and important role in new designs over the coming years. Spartan-7 FPGAs offer high performance/watt in small packaging; Artix-7 FPGAs offers low power with high transceiver bandwidth and Zynq-7000 SoCs integrate the software programmability of an Arm-based processor with the hardware programmability of an FPGA
According to AMD, with the supply chain challenges facing the industry in 2022 and beyond, decisions on what devices to design into projects will be more critical than ever and, as such, it would be costly to design in a device, just to find out one year later that it had been marked for end of life.
With some devices introduced more than 10 years ago, AMD said that it was making this formal commitment so as to give customers the confidence to continue with their existing 7 series designs as well as developing new projects based on the 7 series technology.