GW5AT-60 vs M2GL060
A comparison of the Gowin Arora V GW5AT-60 and the Microchip IGLOO2 M2GL060 using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| GW5AT-60 | M2GL060 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Gowin Arora V | Microchip IGLOO2 |
| LUTs as published | 59,904 LUT4 | 56,520 LUT4 |
| LUT type | 4-input look-up table | 4-input look-up table |
| LUT4 equivalent (approx.) | ≈59,904 | ≈56,520 |
| CoreScore (SERV cores) | — | — |
| Vendor logic figure | — | 56,520 LE |
| DSP | 118 27×18 DSP blocks | 72 18×18 math blocks (MACC) |
| Block RAM | 2.1 Mb | 1.2 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 320 | 387 |
| Transceivers | 4 × SERDES 12.5 Gb/s | 4 × SERDES 5 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen3 x4 | Gen2 |
| Hard processor | None | None |
| Process | 22 nm | 65 nm |
| Configuration memory | SRAM | Non-volatile (flash) |
| Packages | 7 | 4 |
| 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: 59.9K and 56.5K LUT4 equivalents.
For arithmetic, the GW5AT-60 has 118 27×18 DSP blocks against 72 18×18 math blocks (MACC) on the M2GL060.
The GW5AT-60 has more on-chip memory (2.1 Mb vs 1.2 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 4 at up to 12.5 Gb/s on the GW5AT-60 and 4 at up to 5 Gb/s on the M2GL060.
Configuration memory: sram on the GW5AT-60, non-volatile (flash) on the M2GL060.
The GW5AT-60 is designed with Gowin EDA and the M2GL060 with Microchip Libero SoC.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: GW5AT-60 (Arora V) and M2GL060 (IGLOO2).