GW5AST-138 vs M2S150
A comparison of the Gowin Arora V GW5AST-138 and the Microchip SmartFusion2 M2S150 using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| GW5AST-138 | M2S150 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Gowin Arora V | Microchip SmartFusion2 |
| LUTs as published | 138,240 LUT4 | 146,124 LUT4 |
| LUT type | 4-input look-up table | 4-input look-up table |
| LUT4 equivalent (approx.) | ≈138,240 | ≈146,124 |
| CoreScore (SERV cores) | — | — |
| Vendor logic figure | — | 146,124 LE |
| DSP | 298 27×18 DSP blocks | 240 18×18 math blocks (MACC) |
| Block RAM | 6 Mb | 4.2 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 376 | 574 |
| Transceivers | 8 × SERDES 12.5 Gb/s | 16 × SERDES 5 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen3 x8 | Gen2 |
| Hard processor | 1× RISC-V AE350 | 1× Arm Cortex-M3 |
| Process | 22 nm | 65 nm |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | Non-volatile (flash) |
| Packages | 3 | 3 |
| Design tool | Gowin EDA | Microchip Libero SoC |
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
Both devices offer similar logic capacity: 138K and 146K LUT4 equivalents.
For arithmetic, the GW5AST-138 has 298 27×18 DSP blocks against 240 18×18 math blocks (MACC) on the M2S150.
The GW5AST-138 has more on-chip memory (6 Mb vs 4.2 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 8 at up to 12.5 Gb/s on the GW5AST-138 and 16 at up to 5 Gb/s on the M2S150.
Configuration memory: sram on the GW5AST-138, non-volatile (flash) on the M2S150.
The GW5AST-138 is designed with Gowin EDA and the M2S150 with Microchip Libero SoC.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: GW5AST-138 (Arora V) and M2S150 (SmartFusion2).