Altera Introduces Industry’s Highest-Bandwidth 28 nm Midrange FPGA

This latest variant from Altera is designed to meet the demand for more bandwidth in communications and broadcast applications. Arria V GZ FPGAs feature 36 backplane-capable transceivers that can operate at speeds up to 12.5 Gbps and enable of a variety of protocols. In addition, the variant features four separate DDR3 DIMM interfaces at 72 bits wide, operating at 1600 Mbps. The combination of transceivers, fabric performance and quantity of available off-chip memory interfaces in Arria V GZ is unique for midrange FPGAs.

“Customers face many challenges when designing high-performance systems, including the need to balance power and performance while increasing bandwidth to off-chip memory,” said Patrick Dorsey, senior director of component product marketing at Altera Corporation. “The Arria V GZ variant provides both the high-speed serial transceivers and the external memory capability that designers need to build today’s bandwidth-hungry data processing systems.”

Additional features of Arria V GZ devices include:

-First midrange FPGAs to feature hardened PCI Express Gen3 protocol stacks
-Soft intellectual property-based memory controllers allowing for maximum flexibility
-Most digital signal processing in a midrange FPGA for high integration
-Industry-leading, anti-tamper features, including enhanced advanced encryption standard and easy-to-use on-board and off-board key programming>