M2GL010 vs XC7A12T
A comparison of the Microchip IGLOO2 M2GL010 and the AMD Artix-7 XC7A12T using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| M2GL010 | XC7A12T | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Microchip IGLOO2 | AMD Artix-7 |
| LUTs as published | 12,084 LUT4 | 8,000 LUT6 |
| LUT type | 4-input look-up table | 6-input look-up table, fracturable into two LUT5 with shared inputs |
| LUT4 equivalent (approx.) | ≈12,084 | ≈12,800 |
| CoreScore (SERV cores) | — | — |
| Vendor logic figure | 12,084 LE | 12,800 LC |
| DSP | 22 18×18 math blocks (MACC) | 40 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 0.4 Mb | 0.7 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 233 | 150 |
| Transceivers | 4 × SERDES 5 Gb/s | 2 × GTP 6.6 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen2 | Gen2 |
| Hard processor | None | None |
| Process | 65 nm | 28 nm |
| Configuration memory | Non-volatile (flash) | SRAM |
| Packages | 4 | 2 |
| 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: 12.1K and 12.8K LUT4 equivalents.
They use different logic architectures: the M2GL010 is built from LUT4 and the XC7A12T from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (12.1K vs 8K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the XC7A12T has 40 DSP slices against 22 18×18 math blocks (MACC) on the M2GL010.
The XC7A12T has more on-chip memory (0.7 Mb vs 0.4 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 4 at up to 5 Gb/s on the M2GL010 and 2 at up to 6.6 Gb/s on the XC7A12T.
Configuration memory: non-volatile (flash) on the M2GL010, sram on the XC7A12T.
The M2GL010 is designed with Microchip Libero SoC and the XC7A12T with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: M2GL010 (IGLOO2) and XC7A12T (Artix-7).