M2GL005 vs XC7S6
A comparison of the Microchip IGLOO2 M2GL005 and the AMD Spartan-7 XC7S6 using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| M2GL005 | XC7S6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Microchip IGLOO2 | AMD Spartan-7 |
| LUTs as published | 6,060 LUT4 | 3,752 LUT6 |
| LUT type | 4-input look-up table | 6-input look-up table, fracturable into two LUT5 with shared inputs |
| LUT4 equivalent (approx.) | ≈6,060 | ≈6,003 |
| CoreScore (SERV cores) | — | — |
| Vendor logic figure | 6,060 LE | 6,000 LC |
| DSP | 11 18×18 math blocks (MACC) | 10 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 0.2 Mb | 0.2 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 209 | 100 |
| Transceivers | None | None |
| Hard PCI Express | None | None |
| Hard processor | None | None |
| Process | 65 nm | 28 nm |
| Configuration memory | Non-volatile (flash) | SRAM |
| Packages | 4 | 3 |
| Design tool | Microchip Libero SoC | AMD Vivado |
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: 6.1K and 6K LUT4 equivalents.
They use different logic architectures: the M2GL005 is built from LUT4 and the XC7S6 from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (6.1K vs 3.8K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the M2GL005 has 11 18×18 math blocks (MACC) against 10 DSP slices on the XC7S6.
The XC7S6 has more on-chip memory (0.2 Mb vs 0.2 Mb).
Configuration memory: non-volatile (flash) on the M2GL005, sram on the XC7S6.
The M2GL005 is designed with Microchip Libero SoC and the XC7S6 with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: M2GL005 (IGLOO2) and XC7S6 (Spartan-7).