FPGA: 65 nm is still the main battlefield
FPGA, one of the major manufacturers Altera Corporation announced in Beijing, the company's 45-nanometer FPGA shortly after the production plan, Altera's competitors claim Xilinx Inc., Altera because its 65-nanometer FPGA development difficulties, so only high-profile publicity generation of 45-nanometer technology, intended to shift the industry's attention; as a countermeasure, Xilinx 65nm to increase its efforts to promote mature products. However, Altera Corporation strongly disagree with this view. Altera said the company has never given up on 65-nanometer market. Not only that, Altera's 65nm product line is very rich, and Xilinx Inc. than similar products more competitive. Last week, with the Altera product marketing manager, Asia Pacific conducted a telephone interview, Mr. RazakMohammedaliAli here will know of the company's latest 65-nanometer technology are summarized below, for reader reference.
Low CycloneIII
The first series FPGA chips sold in March 2007. The end of 2007, the Series 8 models of all the mass production of 65nm products, models were EP3C5, EP3C10, EP3C16, EP3C25, EP3C40, EP3C55, EP3C80 and EP3C120.
CycloneIII series FPGA has two advantages: low power consumption and low prices, especially for power-and cost-sensitive applications.
CycloneIII device using TSMC's low-power process, claimed power than Xilinx's Spartan3 (90 nm) low 75%. It has a 5K to 120K logic elements (LE), and 4M-bit memory and 288 digital signal processing (DSP) multipliers. CycloneIII for the universal device, a wide range of applications. Because of its memory and DSP functions with, so for video image processing, wireless applications and digital display is even more advantages. Mr. Razak that, CycloneIII in China for high-end consumer products, 3G wireless, fiber to the home, WLAN, GPON, EPON applications. When large quantities, CycloneIII unit prices as low as four U.S. dollars.
Allegedly, CycloneIII the industry's first and only a low-cost 65nm FPGA family. Xilinx Inc. and Altera Corporation StratixIII only the corresponding series of high-performance Vertex5 series, but not with CycloneIII corresponding low-cost devices. For more information CycloneIIIFPGA, visit www.altera.com.cn/cyclone3.
High-end StratixIII
StratixIII series FPGA to begin shipping in August 2007. Mass production of StratixIIIFPGA product has two models, respectively EP3SL150 and EP3SL340. The other 5 in the first quarter of 2008 production.
The series features include: low power, high performance and high density.
Mr. Razak, said, StratixIII series FPGA low-power thanks to two technologies: programmable power selectable core voltage, and technology. The former say that the user can choose two kinds of 1.1 and 0.9 V supply voltage for the chip. If you focus on low-power applications, select the 0.9 V power supply; If your application emphasizes performance, select the 1.1 V power supply. Altera Corporation Programmable Power Technology is a unique chip design technology, is its next-generation 45-nm FPGA products, a big selling point.
43,546,546
Altera claims that its StratixIII series Xilinx FPGA power consumption of comparable companies Vertex5 low 29% (1.1V supply power) to 45% (0.9V supply power). See detailed environment compared to the company's white paper. Meanwhile, StratixIII performance reported 25% higher than the Vertex5. In addition, StratixIIIFPGA allegedly the only fully consistent with DDR3SDRAMDIMM the FPGA, and is the only rate of more than 533MHz of the FPGA.
Chinese users can buy Altera Altera distributors of CycloneIII and StratixIII products can also be ordered through Altera's online store.
I am a professional writer from China Manufacturers, which contains a great deal of information about $keyword_li, welcome to visit!
Processing your request, Please wait....
