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ABAX 3PLD Product Family Overview

Tabula’s ABAX™ family of 3-D Programmable Logic Devices (3PLD) represents a new category of general-purpose chips. Leveraging Tabula’s breakthrough Spacetime™ architecture, ABAX delivers programmability with unprecedented capabilities at volume price points. Setting new marks in density and performance for logic, memory, and signal processing, ABAX extends the benefits of programmability to many applications that previously required ASICs or ASSPs. In addition, ABAX devices have a rich mixture of fully configurable, high-performance I/Os, including 920 general-purpose I/Os and 48 6.5Gbps SerDes. The design flow is similar to FPGA and ASIC flows; using synthesis, placement, and routing to compile designs from RTL into silicon automatically. To increase designers’ productivity, ABAX also supports a broad portfolio of soft IP cores. ABAX products are manufactured using TSMC’s 40 nm process.

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Feature Summary
Configurable I/O
Embedded Memory
ABAX Floor Plan
Standard Design Tools

FEATURES	A1EC02D	A1EC02	A1EC03	A1EC04	A1EC06
MegaLUT	0.23	0.22	0.30	0.39	0.63
MegaBYTEs RAM	3.4	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.5
RegFile Blocks	576	960	960	960	960
LRAM (Large RAM) Blocks	288	480	480	480	480
MRAM (Medium RAM) Blocks	144	280	280	280	280
Multiplier/Accumulator Blocks	768	-	-	-	1280
Parallel I/Os	552	920	920	920	920
SerDes (55 Mb/s - 6.5 Gb/s)	48	48	48	48	48
PLLs	32	44	44	44	44

ABAX PRODUCT FAMILY OPTIONS AND I/O PIN COUNTS

FEATURES	A1EC02D	A1EC02	A1EC03	A1EC04	A1EC06
45mm FCBGA	-	1936/920/48	1936/920/48	1936/920/48	1936/920/48
35mm FCBGA	1156/474/24	1156/496/24	1156/496/24	1156/496/24	1156/496/24

Vertical Migration

To simplify system design evolution and upgrade, all the devices in the ABAX family share a common footprint and pinout, enabling vertical migration

CONFIGURABLE I/O

To enable greater flexibility and ease of system design, ABAX devices’ parallel I/O and SerDes are fully programmable and support a broad range of standards

PARALLEL I/O

Each ABAX device has 920 fully featured General Purpose I/O (GPIO)
- - Fully configurable to support a broad range of standards
- - Per bit de-skew
- - Built-in hardware for clock control between Spacetime fabric and I/O
- - Dedicated support for DDR standards
- - Hardware-assisted read/write leveling

PARALLEL I/O	STANDARD	PERFORMANCE (MHz)	DDR (Mb/s) PERFORMANCE
3.0V, 2.5V, 1.8V, 1.5V LVTTL/LVCMOS	General purpose	200	400
SSTL-2 Class I, II	DDRSDRAM	200	400
SSTL-18 Class I, II	DDR2 SDRAM	400	800
SSTL-15	DDR3 SDRAM	400	800
HSTL-18 Class I, II	QDRII/QDRII+/RLDRAM II	400	800
HSTL-15 Class I, II	QDRII/QDRII+/RLDRAM II	400	800
Diff SSTL-2 Class I, II	DDR SDRAM	200	400
Diff SSTL-18 Class I, II	DDR2 SDRAM	400	800
Diff SSTL-15	DDR3 SDRAM	400	800
Diff HSTL-18 Class I, II	Clock interfaces	400	800
Diff HSTL-15 Class I, II	Clock interfaces	400	800
LVDS	High-speed comm.	600	1200
RSDS & Mini-LVDS	Flat panel display	85	170
HyperTransport	μP bus/router/switch	600	1200
LVPECL	Clock interfaces	450	900
Open Drain	General purpose	-	-

SERDES

Each ABAX device has 48 SerDes
- - 55 Mbps - 6.5 Gbps operation
- - Built-in PMA and PCS per SerDes channel
- - Fully programmable PMA and PCS
- - Independent clocking per channel
- - Channel bond: 2-24 channels

SERDES STANDARDS	DATA RATE (Gbps)
PCI Express Gen1 and Gen2	2.5, 5
GbE/SGMII	1.25
XAUI/RXAUI	3.125, 6.25
Interlaken	3.125-6.375
GPON	1.244, 2.488
Serial RapidIO	1.25, 2.5, 3.125, 6.25
CPRI LV	0.614, 1.228, 2.457, 3.072, 6.144
OBSAI	0.768, 1.536, 3.072, 6.144
Sonet	0.155, 0.622, 2.488
SMPTE SD/HD	0.270, 1.485, 2.97
DisplayPort	1.62, 2.7, 5.4
Fibre Channel	1.06, 2.12, 4.25
SATA/SAS	1.5, 3.0, 6.0
DVB-ASI	0.270
JC-16	0.3125-3.125
OIF SPI-S/SFI-5	3.125

EMBEDDED MEMORY

Each ABAX product integrates 5.5 MBYTES of 8- and 16-port configurable user RAM
RAM blocks come in three sizes to support various use models. They are configurable in width and depth to accommodate different data sizes
8- and 16-ported memories
- - Ultra-high memory bandwidth
- - High utilization of memory resources, even when data size and RAM block size do not match
Memory mapping and multi-port memory generation are automatically managed by the Spacetime compiler
- - Simple to use; no additional user logic required

	LRAM (Large RAM)	MRAM (Medium RAM)	RegFILE
Block Size	72Kb	36Kb	576b
Ports	Up to 8	Up to 16	Up to 16
Configuration	36Kx2/ 18Kx4/ 9Kx8/ 4Kx16/ 9Kx9/ 4Kx18/td>	18Kx2 /9Kx4/ 4Kx8/ 2Kx16/ 4Kx9/ 2Kx18	9 x 64
Access	Synchronous	Synchronous	Synchronous Write/ Asynchronous Read
Features	ECC	ECC, Built-in FIFO controller with programmable watermark	Usable as a 6-LUT

A1EC06 FLOOR PLAN

STANDARD DESIGN TOOLS AND FLOW

The Spacetime architecture is designed to work with your existing design methodology. Therefore, there is no need to change or adapt your design environment to accommodate its 3-D nature
The Spacetime compiler automatically maps, places, and routes your design into an ABAX device using standard design inputs and flows
- - Verilog/VHDL input
- - An intuitive GUI to manage design inputs, projects, and design flows
- - SDC timing constraints and Tcl-based pin and placement constraints
All control of the hardware reconfiguration is automatically and invisibly managed by the Spacetime compiler

MACRO LIBRARY

To facilitate the use of ABAX devices’ rich on-chip resources, Tabula has developed a library of fully validated macros delivering functionality for:
- - Parameterized multi-port memories
- - General- and special-purpose I/O interfaces
- - Standard and custom SerDes protocols

THIRD-PARTY SOFT IP

To increase designers’ productivity, Tabula is working with leading third-party soft IP suppliers to offer a broad portfolio of high-quality soft IP solutions, including:
- - DDR2 and DDR3 Memory Controllers
- - PCI Express Gen 1 and Gen 2
- - Ethernet: 1G and 10G
- - Soft CPU

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