FPGA SPEED GRADE

之前一直都知道，FPGA有不同的速度等级，但是却不知道不同公司的芯片速度等级的定义是否是一样的，如果不一样的话又有什么区别。。今天搜了一点儿资料，现在总结一下。

http://forums.xilinx.com/t5/CPLDs/Speed-Grade/td-p/3052  首先是这个帖子，

There is no consistent definition of a speed grade for all devices. Even for Xilinx, speed grades mean different things depending on if you are referring to a FPGA or a CPLD. For CPLDs, speed grades represent the time it takes for logic to go through the device (eg. in <= out). So a -10 device means that the device is guaranteed to send a signal from an input pin thru to an output pin in under 10 nS. So for CPLDs, the lower the number, the faster the part is. This is standard for CPLDs across all vendors so this can be used for device comparison purposes.