KINTEX

Kintex is a family of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) produced by Xilinx. The Kintex line was introduced to occupy the mid-range segment of Xilinx’s FPGA lineup, offering a balance of logic density, performance, and price that sits between the lower-cost Spartan/Artix devices and the higher-end Virtex devices. Over time the Kintex family has evolved through multiple generations, including Kintex-7 as part of the 7-series and later Kintex UltraScale and Kintex UltraScale+ devices, which use the UltraScale architecture to deliver greater density, faster transceivers, and enhanced performance per watt.

Kintex-7 devices are built on a 28-nanometer process and provide substantial logic resources, DSP slices, block RAM, and high-speed serial transceivers suitable for mid-range communications, data processing, and instrumentation applications. The UltraScale and UltraScale+ members extend these capabilities with increased logic density, expanded memory interfaces, more capable DSP resources, and higher-performance I/O and transceivers, while maintaining a mid-range positioning relative to Virtex devices.

Typical applications for Kintex FPGAs include telecommunications infrastructure, data acquisition and processing systems, instrumentation, automotive and industrial control, and defense-related equipment where reliable programmable logic is needed at a favorable price-performance point. Development and design tooling is primarily centered around Xilinx’s Vivado Design Suite, with older toolchains available for earlier generations. Since Xilinx’s acquisition by AMD, Kintex continues to be supported within AMD Xilinx’s product catalog and lifecycle.