Date: 16/08/2012

Three new Stratix based FPGA boards from Terasic

Terasic has released new Altera Stratix based FPGA boards, They include small form-factor TR5-Lite, the DE5-NET with higher memory, speed, and bandwidth capabilities, and the flexible and expandable TR5-F40W.

The TR5-Lite, a half-length low-profile board, sports dual external 10G SFP+ modules, and memory options including two independent banks of 2GB DDR3 RAM, four independent banks of 32MB QDRII+, high-speed parallel 256MB flash memory, and a SATA port for memory expansion. The slim form-factor package also allows the TR5-Lite to be utilized in stringent server sizes.

The largest Stratix V board is the DE5-NET, which is a superset of the TR5-Lite. Joining the ranks of the Terasic DE series kits, the standard-height 3/4-length DE5-NET includes four SFP+ interfaces, two independent 800MHz DDR3-SODIMM slots, four independent QDRII+ SRAM banks, high-speed 256MB flash, and four SATA ports.

Both the TR5-Lite and DE5-NET boards feature the Stratix V GX FPGA with almost one million logic elements. In addition, integrated transceivers will allow a transfer rate of up to 12.5 Gbps, making the boards fully compliant with version 3.0 of the PCI Express standard, generation 3 of SATA, as well as allowing ultra-low-latency, straight connections to 10G SFP+ modules.

For customers looking for a smaller FPGA density and more flexibility, the TR5-F40W is also available. At standard-height and half-length, the TR5-F40W features a Stratix V GX FPGA with 340K logic elements, high-speed PCIe communication, four SFP+ communication ports, SATA ports and an expandable HSMC port.

“As future high frequency trading and networking applications are leaning towards utilizing FPGAs with high-bandwidth memory architectures, Terasic aims to leverage its proximity to high-quality manufacturers to deliver cost-competitive state-of-the-art solutions for today’s high performance computing and finance industry,” states Terasic CEO Sean Peng.