The device is the first in the Trion Titanium family and features the Quantum compute fabric for enhanced compute and acceleration capabilities. Titanium family devices offer 3x the operating frequency and occupy a quarter of the area when compared to the previous-generation of devices, making them suitable for applications such as vision systems with embedded artificial intelligence and near data processing from data centre to the edge.
"The Titanium family ushers in a new era of FPGAs at Efinix. With enhanced compute capabilities, faster speed, and tiny size, they will set new price performance points for embedded computing,” said Tony Ngai, Efinix co-founder, CTO, and SVP of engineering. “The low power dissipation of the Titanium family members makes them ideal for edge and near data applications where uncontrolled and harsh environments are commonplace.”
The Ti60 will be available under the Reconfigurable Acceleration Platform (RAP) initiative in die form, as a licensable core, and as a traditional packaged FPGA. The RAP initiative makes Efinix FPGA technology readily available in a variety of packaging options facilitating System in Package (SiP) and highly integrated applications. RAP also offers a series of software abstractions to speed time to market with embedded accelerators for the RISC-V cores available on Efinix devices.
“Going forward, there are many markets such as wireless infrastructure and high volume ASSPs that are not well served by traditionally packaged FPGAs due to power and cost,” said Sammy Cheung, Efinix co-founder, CEO and president. “By making the Titanium family part of our ground-breaking RAP initiative, we are making Quantum technology with embedded RISC-V cores available to those markets. This will unlock the enormous potential of FPGAs and speed time to market in embedded solutions and ASSPs for near data and heterogeneous compute applications.”
Efinix is extending its collaborative relationship with TSMC beyond the 16 nm Titanium engagement and has started development activities on its next generation products in TSMC’s high performance 5nm process node. Through these programs and the RAP initiative, Efinix will make Quantum cores available in 16nm, 12nm, and 5nm process nodes and in densities ranging from 10K LEs to 5M LEs.
