M2GL090 vs XC7A50T
A comparison of the Microchip IGLOO2 M2GL090 and the AMD Artix-7 XC7A50T using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| M2GL090 | XC7A50T | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Microchip IGLOO2 | AMD Artix-7 |
| LUTs as published | 86,184 LUT4 | 32,600 LUT6 |
| LUT type | 4-input look-up table | 6-input look-up table, fracturable into two LUT5 with shared inputs |
| LUT4 equivalent (approx.) | ≈86,184 | ≈52,160 |
| CoreScore (SERV cores) | — | — |
| Vendor logic figure | 86,184 LE | 52,160 LC |
| DSP | 84 18×18 math blocks (MACC) | 120 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 1.9 Mb | 2.6 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 425 | 250 |
| Transceivers | 4 × SERDES 5 Gb/s | 4 × 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 | 3 | 5 |
| 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
The M2GL090 has about 65% more logic capacity (86.2K vs 52.2K LUT4 equivalents).
They use different logic architectures: the M2GL090 is built from LUT4 and the XC7A50T from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (86.2K vs 32.6K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the XC7A50T has 120 DSP slices against 84 18×18 math blocks (MACC) on the M2GL090.
The XC7A50T has more on-chip memory (2.6 Mb vs 1.9 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 4 at up to 5 Gb/s on the M2GL090 and 4 at up to 6.6 Gb/s on the XC7A50T.
Configuration memory: non-volatile (flash) on the M2GL090, sram on the XC7A50T.
The M2GL090 is designed with Microchip Libero SoC and the XC7A50T with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: M2GL090 (IGLOO2) and XC7A50T (Artix-7).