Samtlige Altera's 28nm FPGA familier er nu i produktion
Altera annoncerer, at firmaets tre 28nm familier, Stratix V, Arria V og Cyclone V, nu er i volumenproduktion (in english).
Altera has announced it is shipping in production all three of its 28-nm FPGA families, including Stratix V, Arria V and Cyclone V devices. Altera achieves this industry milestone with the latest shipment of the largest Cyclone V FPGA in its low-cost, low-power product family.- Customers today are looking to get their solutions to volumeproduction as quickly as possible to accelerate adoption and revenue, says Patrick Dorsey, senior director of component product marketing at Altera.
- Altera’s focus on enabling production support across all 28-nm families with tailored process technologies, architecture and transceiver technology enables our customers to move rapidly to production with optimized cost, performance and low power.
Cyclone V FPGAs
Developed on TSMC’s 28-nm Low Power (28LP) process, the Cyclone V family provides customers the lowest power and lowest cost at optimal performance levels needed for today’s high-volume, cost-sensitive applications. The family also includes variants with an integrated dual-core ARM-based hard processor system (HPS) that deliver 40 percent lower total power versus the previous generation.
Other features of Cyclone V include:
- the industry’s absolute lowest-power serial transceivers, with 88-mW power consumption per channel;
- 800-Mbps DDR3 with integrated hard memory controllers;
- PCI Express (PCIe) Gen2 hard intellectual property (IP) blocks with multifunction support enabling over 4,000-MIPS processing performance for under 1.8 W.
The Cyclone V family also offers the widest density range of 28-nm FPGAs effective for industrial, wireless, wireline, military and automotive applications.
Arria V FPGAs
Arria V 28-nm FPGAs consume 40 percent less power than the prior generation, and enable the industry’s lowest power transceivers in midrange FPGAs, which use less than 105 mW per channel at 6 Gbps and less than 165 mW per channel at 10 Gbps.
Arria V FPGAs use the lowest total power while providing optimized performance for midrange applications, such as remote radio units, Long-Term Evolution (LTE) wireless communication equipment, in studio mixers, and 10G/40G line cards.
Stratix V FPGAs
Earlier this year, Altera shipped multiple members of its Stratix V 28-nm FPGA family, and today all variants are shipping in production. Stratix V FPGAs are the only FPGAs optimized on TSMC's 28-nm High Performance (28HP) high-K metal gate (HKMG) process with more than a one speed-grade advantage over competing devices. Stratix V FPGAs are the industry’s only production monolithic devices with 28-Gbps integratedtransceivers.
Other Stratix V features include:
- the highest memory interface capability with 2,133-Mbps DDR3 support;
- 2.5 TMACs of digital signal processing (DSP) performance;
- PCIe Gen3 x8 support.
Combined with the added benefits of increased flexibility of partialreconfiguration and Configuration via Protocol (CvP) using the existing PCIelink, Stratix V FPGAs allow designers to increase their system performance and bandwidth while reducing power. These improvements meet the demands of high-performance applications, including Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) line cards, military radar, optical transport network (OTN), and studio server applications.
