Product category:
Programmable Logic Devices
News Release from: Altera Europe | Subject: Stratix II GX EP2SGX90E
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 28 March 2006
FPGAs take high-speed transceivers
onboard
Featuring 12 transceivers and 90,960 equivalent logic elements (LEs), the EP2SGX90E device is the first member of the Stratix II GX FPGA family to ship to customers.
Continuing to provide developers of high-speed applications with an efficient, low-risk design path, Altera Corporation has begun shipping its Stratix II GX EP2SGX90E device and accompanying development kit Featuring 12 transceivers and 90,960 equivalent logic elements (LEs), the EP2SGX90E device is the first member of the Stratix II GX FPGA family to ship to customers
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Our EP2SGX90E FPGAs provide high-speed designers with an award-winning 90nm device with embedded transceivers", said David Greenfield, Altera's Senior Director of Product Marketing for High-Density FPGAs.
"Altera is the first in the industry to deliver the port density, transceiver speed and optimised jitter performance that the Stratix II GX family offers".
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The Stratix II GX signal integrity development kit is the ideal platform for evaluating and validating the signal integrity features of the 6.375Gbit/s transceivers.
This development kit provides everything necessary for the validation of high-speed backplane interface, chip-to-chip and communications protocol-bridging applications.
It includes configuration options, flexible clocking options and a USB port to interface with a PC for easy plug-and-play.
The kit, available for $1295, also includes Quartus II design software, an AC adapter power supply, a USB-Blaster download cable, two SMA-compatible cables, reference designs and documentation.
Designed to meet the need for low power and superior signal integrity for high-speed designs, the Stratix II GX family is Altera's third-generation of FPGAs with embedded transceivers.
With up to 20 low-power transceivers operating between 622Mbit/s and 6.375Gbit/s, Stratix II GX FPGAs offer a complete, programmable solution for the growing number of applications and protocols requiring high-speed serial transceivers.
Protocols include PCI Express, Serial Digital Interface (SDI), XAUI, Sonet, gigabit Ethernet, SerialLite II, Serial RapidIO and Common Electrical Interface 6Gbit/s Long Reach and Short Reach (CEI-6G-LR/SR).
In addition to the EP2SGX90E device shipping now, the EP2SGX90F device - featuring 16 full-duplex high-speed transceivers - begins shipping next month.
All members of the Stratix II GX family are planned to be in full production by the fourth quarter of 2006.
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