With this announcement, Altera maintains its technological leadership in 28 nm by being the first to supply optimized and certified production solutions across its entire catalog of high-end, mid-range and low-cost FPGAs, designed to meet the diverse design and product differentiation requirements of its customers.
Cyclone V FPGA:
The Cyclone V family, developed using TSMC's 28-nm Low Power (28LP) process, provides customers with the lowest power consumption and lowest cost with the optimal performance levels required by today's cost-sensitive, high-volume applications. The family also includes versions with an integrated dual-core ARM®-based hardware processor system (HPS) that reduces power consumption by 40 percent compared to the previous generation. Other features of Cyclone V include:
- the lowest power serial transceivers on the market, at 88 mW per channel;
- 800 Mbps DDR3 with integrated hardware memory controllers;
- proprietary PCI Express® (PCIe®) Gen2 hardware blocks with multifunction support, enabling speeds of over 4000 MIPS with power consumption below 1.8 W.
The Cyclone V family also offers the highest 28nm FPGA density for industrial, wireless, wired, military, and automotive applications.
Arria V FPGAs:
The 28nm Arria V FPGAs consume 40 percent less power than the previous generation, enabling the lowest power consumption transceivers on the market for midrange FPGAs, with less than 105 mW per channel at 6 Gbps and less than 165 mW per channel at 10 Gbps. Arria V FPGAs consume less power and provide optimized performance for midrange applications such as remote radio units, LTE (Long-Term Evolution) wireless communication equipment, studio mixers, and 10G/40G line cards.
Stratix V FPGAs:
Throughout this year, Altera has delivered several models within its 28nm Stratix V FPGA family, and all versions are currently in production. Stratix V FPGAs are the only FPGAs optimized on TSMC's 28nm High Performance (28HP) process with a high-K metal gate (HKMG), offering a speed advantage of more than one grade over competing devices. Stratix V FPGAs are the only monolithic devices in production with integrated 28 Gbps transceivers. Other features of the Stratix V include:
- the highest capacity memory interface, supporting DDR3 at 2133 Mbps;
- 2.5 TMAC of performance for digital signal processing (DSP);
- support for PCIe® Gen3 x8.
Along with the added advantages of greater flexibility for partial reconfiguration and Configuration via Protocol (CvP) using the existing PCIe link, Stratix V FPGAs allow designers to increase system performance and bandwidth while reducing power consumption. These improvements meet the demands of high-performance applications such as Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) line cards, military radars, optical transport networks (OTNs), and research servers.
Altera's 28nm Catalog:
Altera's 28nm FPGA catalog provides customers with clearly differentiated solutions within the Cyclone V, Arria V, and Stratix V FPGA families, as well as the HardCopy® V ASIC family. For more information on Altera's 28nm product portfolio, visit altera.com/28nmportfolio.
