M2S050 vs XC7Z012S
A comparison of the Microchip SmartFusion2 M2S050 and the AMD Zynq 7000 XC7Z012S using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| M2S050 | XC7Z012S | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Microchip SmartFusion2 | AMD Zynq 7000 |
| LUTs as published | 56,340 LUT4 | 34,400 LUT6 |
| LUT type | 4-input look-up table | 6-input look-up table, fracturable into two LUT5 with shared inputs |
| LUT4 equivalent (approx.) | ≈56,340 | ≈55,040 |
| CoreScore (SERV cores) | — | — |
| Vendor logic figure | 56,340 LE | 55,000 LC |
| DSP | 72 18×18 math blocks (MACC) | 120 DSP slices |
| Block RAM | 1.2 Mb | 2.5 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 377 | 150 |
| Transceivers | 8 × SERDES 5 Gb/s | 4 × GTP 6.25 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen2 | Gen2 x4 |
| Hard processor | 1× Arm Cortex-M3 | 1× Arm Cortex-A9 |
| Process | 65 nm | 28 nm |
| Configuration memory | Non-volatile (flash) | SRAM |
| Packages | 4 | 1 |
| 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: 56.3K and 55K LUT4 equivalents.
They use different logic architectures: the M2S050 is built from LUT4 and the XC7Z012S from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (56.3K vs 34.4K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the XC7Z012S has 120 DSP slices against 72 18×18 math blocks (MACC) on the M2S050.
The XC7Z012S has more on-chip memory (2.5 Mb vs 1.2 Mb).
Both have transceivers: 8 at up to 5 Gb/s on the M2S050 and 4 at up to 6.25 Gb/s on the XC7Z012S.
Configuration memory: non-volatile (flash) on the M2S050, sram on the XC7Z012S.
The M2S050 is designed with Microchip Libero SoC and the XC7Z012S with AMD Vivado.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: M2S050 (SmartFusion2) and XC7Z012S (Zynq 7000).