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Accelerator Series FPGAs – ACT ™ 3 Family

Architecture

This section of the data sheet is meant to familiarize the user

with the architecture of the ACT 3 family of FPGA devices. A

generic description of the family will be presented first,

followed by a detailed description of the logic blocks, the

routing structure, the antifuses, and the special function

circuits. The on-chip circuitry required to program the

devices is not covered.

Topology

The ACT 3 family architecture is composed of six key

elements: Logic modules, I/O modules, I/O Pad Drivers,

Routing Tracks, Clock Networks, and Programming and Test

Circuits. The basic structure is similar for all devices in the

family, differing only in the number of rows, columns, and

I/Os. The array itself consists of alternating rows of modules

and channels. The logic modules and channels are in the

center of the array; the I/O modules are located along the

array periphery. A simplified floor plan is depicted in

Figure 1.

Logic Modules

ACT 3 logic modules are enhanced versions of the 1200XL

family logic modules. As in the 1200XL family, there are two

types of modules: C-modules and S-modules. The C-module is

functionally equivalent to the 1200XL C-module and

implements high fanin combinatorial macros, such as 5-input

AND, 5-input OR, and so on. It is available for use as the CM8

hard macro. The S-module is designed to implement

high-speed sequential functions within a single module.

S-modules consist of a full C-module driving a flip-flop, which

allows an additional level of logic to be implemented without

additional propagation delay. It is available for use as the

DFM8A/B and DLM8A/B hard macros. C-modules and

S-modules are arranged in pairs called module-pairs.

Module-pairs are arranged in alternating patterns and make

up the bulk of the array. This arrangement allows the

placement software to support two-module macros of four

types (CC, CS, SC, and SS). The C-module implements the

following function:

Y = !S1 * !S0 * D00 + !S1 * S0 * D01 + S1 * !S0 * D10 + S1 * S0

* D11

where: S0 = A0 * B0 and S1 = A1 + B1

Figure 1 • Generalized Floor Plan of ACT 3 Device

BIO IO

BIN S

CLKM

BIN S

An Array with

n rows and m columns

Top I/Os

Bottom I/Os

Left I/Os

Right I/Os

Rows

n+1

n–1

•

Channels

n+1

n–1

•

n+2

c–1

c+1

m m+1 m+2 m+3

Columns

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