Altera Corp. Ships High-Density Transceiver FPGAs
March 30, 2009 // Published as a news service by IHS
Altera Corp. announced silicon availability of a high-density transceiver field-programmable gate array (FPGA).
As the second member of the Altera Stratix IV GX FPGA family to ship, the EP4SGX530 is designed to be 60% larger than the largest transceiver FPGA on the market, according to Altera Corp.
The device offers 530K logic elements, up to 48 transceivers operating at up to 8.5 Gbps, 20.3 Mb of RAM and 1,040 embedded multipliers.
Stratix IV GX devices target applications in the communications, broadcast, test, medical and military markets.
"Agilent is committed to providing test equipment that accelerates the turn-on and debug phase of emerging high-speed interconnects," said Jun Chie, marketing manager for Agilent's logic and protocol test tools.
Stratix IV GX FPGAs incorporate up to four hard intellectual property (IP) cores for PCI Express Gen1 and Gen2 (x1, x4 and x8) and also support protocols including Serial RapidIO, 40G/100G Ethernet, XAUI, Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) (including 6G CPRI), CEI-6G, Gigabit Passive Optical Network, SFI-5.1 and Interlaken.
Source: Altera Corp.