APEXTM 20K devices are the first PLDs designed with the MultiCore
architecture, which combines the strengths of LUT-based and productterm-based devices with an enhanced memory structure. LUT-based logic
provides optimized performance and efficiency for data-path, registerintensive, mathematical, or digital signal processing (DSP) designs.
Product-term-based logic is optimized for complex combinatorial paths,
such as complex state machines. LUT- and product-term-based logic
combined with memory functions and a wide variety of MegaCore and
AMPP functions make the APEX 20K device architecture uniquely suited
for system-on-a-programmable-chip designs. Applications historically
requiring a combination of LUT-, product-term-, and memory-based
devices can now be integrated into one APEX 20K device.
