Altera / Intel Arria® II GX & GZ Midrange FPGAs
Altera / Intel® Arria® II GX and GZ Low Power 6G Transceiver FPGAs deliver substantial cost and power savings over competing devices, while providing high functionality for 6G transceiver-based applications. The 40nm Arria® II family includes the low cost FPGA with 6.375Gbps transceivers. The Arria® II GX FPGAs have up to 16 6.375Gbps transceivers, LVDS at 1.25Gbps, and support for 400MHz DD3. The Arria® II GZ FPGA offers up to 24 6.375-Gbps transceivers, more density and memory, and higher digital signal processing (DSP) capabilities than Arria® II GX FPGAs.
Features
- 40-nm, low-power FPGA engine
- High-performance digital signal processing (DSP) blocks up to 550MHz
- Configurable as 9 x 9-bit, 12 x 12-bit, 18 x 18-bit, and 36 x 36-bit full-precision multipliers as well as 18 x 36-bit high-precision multiplier
- Maximum system bandwidth
- Up to 24 full-duplex clock data recovery (CDR)-based transceivers supporting rates between 600 Mbps and 6.375Gbps
- Dedicated circuitry to support physical layer functionality for popular serial protocols
- Complete PIPE protocol solution with an embedded hard IP block that provides physical interface and media access control (PHY/MAC) layer, Data Link layer, and Transaction layer functionality
- Optimized for high-bandwidth system interfaces
- Low power
- Architectural power reduction techniques
- Typical physical medium attachment (PMA) power consumption of 100mW at 3.125Gbps.
- Advanced usability and security features
- Parallel and serial configuration options
- 256-bit advanced encryption standard (AES) programming file encryption for design security with volatile and non-volatile key storage options
- Low cost, easy-to-use development kits featuring high-speed mezzanine connectors (HSMC)
- Emulated LVDS output support with a data rate of up to 1152Mbps
Applications
- Wireless
- Wireline
- Broadcast
- Military
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Published: 2012-11-15
| Updated: 2022-03-11