MPF200T vs XC6VLX195T
A comparison of the Microchip PolarFire MPF200T and the AMD Virtex-6 XC6VLX195T using the data from both vendors' selection guides.
Side-by-side specifications
| MPF200T | XC6VLX195T | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor / family | Microchip PolarFire | AMD Virtex-6 |
| LUTs as published | 192,000 LUT4 | 124,800 LUT6 |
| LUT type | 4-input look-up table | 6-input look-up table, fracturable into two LUT5 with shared inputs |
| LUT4 equivalent (approx.) | ≈192,000 | ≈199,680 |
| CoreScore (SERV cores) | — | — |
| Vendor logic figure | 192,000 LE | 199,680 LC |
| DSP | 588 18×18 math blocks (MACC) | 640 DSP48E1 slices |
| Block RAM | 12 Mb | 12.1 Mb |
| Large RAM | — | — |
| Max. user I/O | 368 | 600 |
| Transceivers | 16 × SERDES 12.7 Gb/s | 20 × GTX 6.6 Gb/s |
| Hard PCI Express | Gen2 x4 | Gen2 x8 |
| Hard processor | None | None |
| Process | 28 nm | 40 nm |
| Configuration memory | Non-volatile (SONOS flash) | SRAM |
| Packages | 5 | 2 |
| Design tool | Microchip Libero SoC | AMD ISE Design Suite |
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: 192K and 200K LUT4 equivalents.
They use different logic architectures: the MPF200T is built from LUT4 and the XC6VLX195T from LUT6, so the raw LUT counts (192K vs 125K) are not directly comparable.
For arithmetic, the XC6VLX195T has 640 DSP48E1 slices against 588 18×18 math blocks (MACC) on the MPF200T.
Both have transceivers: 16 at up to 12.7 Gb/s on the MPF200T and 20 at up to 6.6 Gb/s on the XC6VLX195T.
Configuration memory: non-volatile (sonos flash) on the MPF200T, sram on the XC6VLX195T.
The MPF200T is designed with Microchip Libero SoC and the XC6VLX195T with AMD ISE Design Suite.
Full specifications
See the complete spec sheets with packages and grades: MPF200T (PolarFire) and XC6VLX195T (Virtex-6).