Xilinx Announces World Largest FPGA: Virtex Ultrascale+ VU19P with 9m Cells

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We don’t often cover the FPGA market here at AnandTech, but in the past couple of years we have seen the array of features that FPGAs are implementing expand at an incredible rate. Xilinx has been at some of the forefront of those innovations, with products such as Versal on 7nm and its Alveo family. One key part of Xilinx’s business is emulation and simulation, which requires large FPGAs to fit large designs onto - and the company recently lifted the lid on its latest creation, the Virtex Ultrascale+ VU19P. This new FPGA, when it comes to market, will hold the title of the World’s Largest FPGA.Large FPGAs are Big BusinessAn FPGA, or Field Programmable Gate Array, is a bit of hardware that helps circuit designers do their job. An FPGA is so programmable that a user can design an integrated circuit on an FPGA before the design goes to market, and the engineer can see if the design works, and get rough estimates on performance and accuracy. For example, on the biggest FPGA today, Xil…