MEGAGATE FPGAs
Vendor, family, and largest part number	Maximum gate count**, dedicated SRAM bits, and number of I/Os	Embedded processor options and approximate performance	Specialized resources and I/O capabilities, additional features	Price per chip
Actel ProASIC* APA1000	1,000,000 gates; 198 kbits; 712 I/Os	Soft cores configured in the programmable logic; 350 MHz (internal), 100 MHz (system)	Dual PLLs, 150-MHz dual LVPECL differential pairs	$399 in volume
Altera APEX II EP2A70	3,000,000 gates; 1.1 Mbits; 1060 I/Os	Proprietary 32-bit NIOS soft core; 150 MHz (system)	Eight PLLs, 36 dedicated LVDS input and 36 dedicated LVDS output channels capable of 1-Gbit/s data transfers plus additional flexible LVDS channels, 1.5-V operation, HyperTransport interfaces also available	$1200 in lots of 25 kunits
Altera Excalibur (APEX20KE) EPXA10	1,000,000 gates; 327 kbits; 521 I/Os	ARM9 processor (with 8-kbyte instruction and data caches), preintegrated; proprietary NIOS soft or hard core; 200 MHz for ARM9; 70 MHz for NIOS hard core, 40 MHz for soft core	Four PLLs, two embedded memory controllers, LVDS, SSTL, GTL+ interfaces, 1.8-V operation	$365 in lots of 10 kunits
Altera APEX20KC EP20K1000C	1,000,000 gates; 327 kbits; 708 I/Os	NIOS soft core; 40 MHz (processor); PCI 66 MHz, SDRAM 133 MHz	Four PLLs, 16 dedicated LVDS input and 16 dedicated LVDS output channels, 1.8-V operation	$450 in lots of 10 kunits
Altera Stratix EP1S80	1,750,000 gates; 10 Mbits; 1310 I/Os	NIOS soft core; 100 MHz (processor); 250 MHz (system)	12 PLLs, 28 DSP support blocks capable of 2 GMACs, differential I/O, true LVDS interfaces, support for DDR memories, novel TriMatrix memory architecture	$900 in lots of 10 kunits
Xilinx Virtex II Pro XC2VP50	1,500,000 gates; 3.888 Mbits; 852 I/Os (flip-chip option)	PowerPC (four cores preintegrated); 300 MHz (processor); 250 MHz (system)	Four PLLs, 10 DLLs, 16 channels of Rocket I/O (3.125 Gbits/s), 8B/10B encode/decode capability, I/O channels able to support 10-Gbit Ethernet	$1500 in lots of 50-kunits (projected price in 2004)
Xilinx Virtex II XC2V6000	6,000,000 gates; 3 Mbits; 1108 I/Os	MicroBlaze 32-bit soft core; 80 MHz (processor), 125 MHz (system)	12 DLLs, 168 dedicated 18- by 18-bit hardware multipliers for DSP applications, on-chip termination	$1000 in lots of 50-kunits (projected for late 2003)
Xilinx Virtex IIE XCV2000E	2,000,000 gates; 851 kbits; 804 I/Os	MicroBlaze 32-bit soft core; 80 MHz (processor); 125 MHz (system)	Eight DLLs, supports up to 344 differential I/O pairs at 622 Mbits/s, enhanced version of the Virtex II series	$350 in lots of 50 kunits (projected for late 2003)
*Flash-based nonvolatile configuration storage, **gate counts are approximate since each vendor has its own approach for estimating the count