kicad or orcad virtex5 symbol

You won't find an FPGA symbol; it isn't done that way anymore.

You may find some (typically evaluation) boards where there is a symbol for each bank, but this gets clumsy, and thwarts any automated error checking.

Common practice is to create a seperate symbol for each interface connected to the FPGA. So you would have (for instance) a symbol for the Virtex-5 connections to the ethernet phy, another symbol for the connections to the DRAM, another symbol for the dedicated programming pins, etc., etc.

My advice: Learn how to create schematic symbols. G.

Thanks for your answer, it seems to be a nice approach to obtain a schematic easily readable.

Best regards.

Orcad symbols of Xilinx FPGAs are available from this site:

I have just created a generic SPARTAN 3e symbol for ORCAD. I decided which sizes of FPGA I want to be able to support for the footprint I want, modified the description of the signals which are different between fpga size ( the different pins are clearly indicated) then imported the csv into orcad. It took me half an hour. How many hundred different variations do you think xilinx should provide?

Colin