Electronic – Static power of Xilinx FPGA

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From the results given by power analyzer, I find that the Xilinx FPGAs always have a high static power consumption no matter what your design is, although it will vary if your design utilize different number of resources.

What are the components consuming the static power on Xilinx FPGA reported by power analyzer?

My guess is:
interconnect (wires and switches) + slice used + IOB used + memory used + ASIC component used (multiplier, adder, etc)

Best Answer

First, it depends on the family. Older ones have less leakage.

Interconnect does have a lot of transistors, so it is likely high.

Slices used is high (for the logic) and low (the configuration logic is optimized for power since it doesn't need speed).

IOB is low.

Memory and ASIC components I can't comment on.

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