New fpgas increase transceiver speeds
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Altera is shipping what it claims to be the lowest power fpgas on the market. The company says it has enhanced its Arria II GX fpga variant with 6.375Gbps transceivers and up to 1.25Gbps LVDS support. It has also announced the addition of the Arria II GZ fpga variant.
As a result, it says the 40nm Arria II range can provide the lowest power 6Gbps transceiver solutions on the market – according to Altera, featuring up to 50% lower static power over competitive devices.
The new Arria II GX fpgas feature up to 16 6.375Gbps transceivers and faster I/Os than Altrea's previous generation making them suitable for wireless, wireline, test, medical and storage applications.
The Arria II GZ fpgas feature up to 24 6.375Gbps transceivers, up to 400MHz ddr3 interfaces and up to 726 I/Os. Its processing capacity has been increased to include a PCIe Gen2 hard IP block, 30% more multipliers and 25% more user logic than the original Arria II GX family.
"Since their introduction, our Arria II devices have enabled our customers to solve their performance and power challenges and bring truly unique products to market," said Luanne Schirrmeister, senior director of product marketing at Altera. "With these extensions to the Arria II family, we are boosting the number of applications that can benefit from the unrivaled capabilities of these devices."
The Arria II GX and GZ ranges feature up to 350K logic elements and up to 16.4Mb of embedded memory.
