Altera demos Iinterlaken connectivity with Cavium OCTEON multicore processors

John Bromhead, director, Solutions and Services at Cavium, commented: “Altera’s flexible Interlaken IP enabled us to quickly show interoperability between our products. This solution gives our customers the added assurance that when they develop with Altera FPGAs and Cavium’s OCTEON processors, the devices will work seamlessly together. The ease of interoperability also helps customers meet tight time-to-market windows.”

“The flexibility of our Interlaken IP core makes Altera FPGAs instantly usable with the variety of SoC, ASSP and ASIC device interfaces in the market. Demonstrating interoperability with Cavium OCTEON devices shows both the high quality of our Interlaken IP and our commitment to proving out solutions,” comments Alex Grbic, director of product marketing at Altera.

The Altera Interlaken IP core is ideal for multi-terabit routers and switches for access, carrier Ethernet and data centre applications that demand IP configurability to optimize for various traffic profiles, and scalability for next-generation platforms. The Interlaken IP includes Altera’s technology-leading transceivers (PMA), PCS, and MAC layers. Saving customers 30 to 50 percent on FPGA logic resources, the PCS layer is hardened within the Stratix V and Arria V FPGAs. In addition to resource savings, the Interlaken IP has been through extensive simulation verification and has been proven to work on internal and customer platforms.

Key features:

•More than 20 parameters and settings provide the needed flexibility for system performance tuning, scalability and interoperability,

•Data rate and lane support up to 12.5G and x24 lanes,

•Standard and customized Interlaken IP cores offered,

•Fully integrated IP deliverable, includes MAC, PCS, and PMA layers,

•Interlaken Protocol Definition v1.2 compliant.

Availability

Altera Interlaken IP cores are available now.