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===Spartan family===
[[File:Fritz!Box Fon WLAN 7270 - Xilinx 3S250E-3338.jpg|thumb|Xilinx 3S250, Spartan-3E FPGA family]]
The Spartan series targets low cost, high-volume applications with a low-power footprint e.g. [[displays]], [[set-top boxes]], [[wireless router]]s and other applications.<ref name="spartan">Daniel Harris, Electronic Design. "[http://electronicdesign.com/Articles/Index.cfm?AD=1&ArticleID=18342 If only the original spartans could have thrived on so little power] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302010210/http://electronicdesign.com/Articles/Index.cfm?AD=1&ArticleID=18342 |date=2009-03-02 }}." February 27, 2008. Retrieved January 20, 2008.</ref>

The Spartan-6 family is built on a 45&nbsp;nm, 9-metal layer, dual-oxide process technology.<ref name="eetimes"/><ref name="spartanrelease">Company Release. "[http://news.prnewswire.com/ViewContent.aspx?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/02-02-2009/0004964201&EDATE The low-cost Spartan-6 FPGA family delivers an optimal balance of low risk, low cost, low power, and high performance] {{dead link|date=October 2017|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}." February 2, 2009.</ref> The Spartan-6 was marketed in 2009 as a low-cost option for automotive, wireless communications, flat-panel display and video surveillance applications.<ref name="spartanrelease"/>

The Spartan-7 family, built on the same 28[[nanometer|nm]] process used in the other 7-Series FPGAs, was announced in 2015,<ref name="spartan7announce"/> and became available in 2017.<ref name="spartan7prod"/> Unlike the Artix-7 family and the "LXT" members of the Spartan-6 family, the Spartan-7 FPGAs lack high-bandwidth transceivers.<ref name="costOptimizedPortfolio2017"/>