Industry’s ‘highest density’ fpga
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Programmable solutions specialist, Altera Europe has launched a range which it claims offers the 'industry's highest density fpga' with the 'highest performance and lowest power in its class'.
According to Altera, it has increased the high end density range of its 40nm Stratix IV E fpgas to 820K logic elements (Les). The EP4SE820 fpga has been designed for a variety of high end digital applications such as asic prototyping and emulation, wireline, wireless, military and computer and storage.
Altera's Stratix IV E fpgas feature four devices ranging in density from 230 to 820K LEs. The new EP4SE820 delivers 53% higher density than its EP4SE530 device and, according to Altera, is at least one speed grade faster than the closest competitor's largest offering.
Luanne Schirrmeister, senior director of component product marketing at Altera, said: "Customers, particularly in the asic prototyping and emulation space, demand bigger and faster fpgas and we are meeting their demand by offering the industry's largest fpga. The resource rich EP4SE820 fpga enables customers to fit more logic into their fpga so they can deliver greater product differentiation at a lower cost."
