Altera customers achieve double core performance

The breakthrough leap in FPGA core performance customers are experiencing is a result of Intel's 14nm Tri-Gate process technology and the groundbreaking Stratix 10 HyperFlex architecture.

HyperFlex - Altera's next-generation core fabric architecture for Stratix 10 devices - represents the FPGA industry's most significant leap in architectural innovations in over a decade and enables applications not possible using conventional FPGA architectures. Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs with the HyperFlex architecture are able to meet the demands of the most advanced, performance-critical applications in the networking, communications, broadcast, military, and compute and storage markets.

Early access customers are experiencing firsthand the significant performance gains that Stratix 10 devices deliver. Through the Stratix 10 FPGA early access program, Altera is working with several customers to run their existing designs through performance evaluation tools built for Stratix 10 FPGAs. The customer designs target a wide range of applications and leverage a variety of hardware design approaches, including ASIC replacement designs, traditional high-performance FPGA communication designs and high-throughput data centre and computation designs. In all cases customers experienced at least a two times jump in their design's performance using Stratix 10 FPGAs.

Patrick Dorsey, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Altera, commented: "We realise we were bold when we stated a two times breakthrough in logic performance was achievable through architectural innovation and process technology leadership. Working side-by-side with customers, we have jointly confirmed what is possible with our next-generation Stratix 10 FPGA and SoC platform, and the results are remarkable."

Stratix 10 FPGA early access design software will be available for customer use in summer 2014.