Product category:
Programmable Logic Devices
News Release from: Altera Europe
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 26 July 2006
Altera ships industry's highest density
FPGA
Altera Corporation has announced that it has begun shipping the Stratix II GX family's EP2SGX130 device, the industry's largest FPGA with embedded transceivers.
With Embedded Transceivers Altera Corporation has today announced that it has begun shipping the Stratix II GX family's EP2SGX130 device, the industry's largest FPGA with embedded transceivers The EP2SGX130 features more than 132,000 equivalent logic elements (LEs), giving designers ample logic resources to implement multiple protocols or highly complex intellectual property (IP)
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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In addition, 20 fully functional multigigabit transceivers in the EP2SGX130 device make it ideal for PCI Express bridging and multiple-port line card applications.
"Stratix II GX devices are the only FPGAs with transceivers that meet jitter and power specifications all the way to 6.375 Gbps," said David Greenfield, Altera's senior director of marketing for high-end FPGAs.
"A great benefit of the EP2SGX130 density and channel count is that multiple protocols easily fit on a single device, providing a new level of design flexibility".
Where board space and power are primary considerations for device selection, the Stratix II GX FPGA family offers 20 channels of the industry's lowest power transceivers, with 6.5 watts less power dissipation at 6.375 Gbps than the nearest competitor.
The Stratix II GX FPGA transceivers' optimised signal integrity has been demonstrated for boards and backplanes using FR-4 materials at over 1.25 meters length, thus lowering OEM system costs and improving manufacturing yields.
These low-power transceivers also lower cost by reducing cooling system complexity and associated equipment maintenance expenses.
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