EP4CE115 vs XC6SLX100
A comparison of the Altera Cyclone IV EP4CE115 and the AMD Spartan-6 XC6SLX100 using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| EP4CE115 | XC6SLX100 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Altera Cyclone IV | AMD Spartan-6 |
| LUTs as published | 114,000 LUT4 | 63,288 LUT6 |
| LUT type | 4-input look-up table | 6-input look-up table, fracturable into two LUT5 with shared inputs |
| LUT4 equivalent (approx.) | ≈114,000 | ≈101,261 |
| CoreScore (SERV cores) | — | — |
| Vendor logic figure | 114,000 LE | 101,261 LC |
| DSP | 266 18×18 multipliers | 180 DSP48A1 slices |
| Block RAM | 3.8 Mb | 4.7 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 528 | 480 |
| Transceivers | None | None |
| Hard PCI Express | None | None |
| Hard processor | None | None |
| Process | 60 nm | 45 nm |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | SRAM |
| Packages | 2 | 3 |
| Design tool | Altera Quartus Prime | AMD ISE Design Suite |
Highlighted values are higher. LUT counts are shown as published; the LUT4 equivalent is an approximation to compare different LUT types, see how FPGA vendors count logic. Add up to two more devices to this comparison.
Key differences
The EP4CE115 has about 13% more logic capacity (114K vs 101K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the EP4CE115 is built from LUT4 and the XC6SLX100 from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (114K vs 63.3K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the EP4CE115 has 266 18×18 multipliers against 180 DSP48A1 slices on the XC6SLX100.
The XC6SLX100 has more on-chip memory (4.7 Mb vs 3.8 Mb).
The EP4CE115 is designed with Altera Quartus Prime and the XC6SLX100 with AMD ISE Design Suite.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: EP4CE115 (Cyclone IV) and XC6SLX100 (Spartan-6).