Xilinx announces Virtex-7, Artix-7 and Kintex-7

These new 28nm devices will be available in 2011 Q1. Check the press release and this web for more details. The largest Virtex-7 device will feature up to 2 million logic blocks, about 2.5 times the largest Virtex-6 (LX760), and also 2x de memory bandwidth. Improvements seem mostly in line with the new process technology.

For the new 7 series devices, focus has been placed on IP portability among the different devices of the series. This seems an important step. Now let's hope that other standards arise also at the platform and high-level synthesis levels.