Low-cost FPGA family available in production

Built on TSMC's 65nm low-power process, the Cyclone III family includes devices that are qualified for commercial, industrial and extended temperatures.

Altera is now shipping all eight members of its low-power low-cost Cyclone III family of 65nm FPGAs in production quantities.

Since its March 2007 introduction, the Cyclone III family quickly has been adopted into numerous customer systems in the wireless, military, display, automotive and industrial markets.

"As the industry's first and only 65nm low-cost FPGA family, Cyclone III devices offer digital system designers an unprecedented combination of density, power and cost", says Luanne Schirrmeister, Director of Marketing, Low-Cost Products, Altera Corp.

"However, FPGA designers today are looking for complete, hardware-tested solutions; thus we have created and delivered three different development kits, application-specific intellectual property and reference designs to accelerate time to market and reduce the cost of development for our customers".

A few examples of Cyclone III device application success include: industrial equipment requiring real-time Ethernet communications, with IP support for several protocols, including EtherCAT; a network interface product for automotive network designers; and a software-programmable reconfiguration platform for software-defined radio applications.

Cyclone III devices consume 75% less power than competing FPGAs while delivering 5K to 120K logic elements (LEs), up to 4Mbit of memory and up to 288 digital signal processing (DSP) multipliers.

Built on TSMC's 65nm low-power process, the Cyclone III family includes devices that are qualified for commercial, industrial and extended temperatures.

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