Date: 24/09/2009

Altera started shipping 40-nm Stratix IV GX FPGAs

Altera has announced that it is shipping volume production of its 40-nm Stratix IV GX EP4SGX230 FPGAs that offers the high density and high performance and used in high-speed backplane and cabling interfaces, chip-to-chip interconnects and protocol-bridging applications.

Based on the transceiver technology, the 36 transceivers embedded in the EP4SGX230 FPGA that offer a better signal integrity with jitter performance at data rates operating between 600 Mbps and 8.5 Gbps. The transceivers support industry standards and serial protocols such as PCI Express Gen1 and Gen2 (x1, x4 and x8), Serial RapidIO, Gigabit Ethernet, XAUI, CPRI (including 6G CPRI), CEI 6G, GPON, SFI-5.1 and Interlaken. And also features 230K logic elements (LEs), 13.9 Mbits of embedded memory and 1,288 18x18 multipliers.

"The significant lead we have on the competition at the 40-nm node has enabled us to establish Stratix IV FPGAs as the most widely adopted 40-nm FPGAs in the industry," said Luanne Schirrmeister, senior director of component product marketing at Altera. "We continue to hit every key milestone in rolling out our 40-nm devices and remain on target to deliver our entire family of Stratix IV FPGAs to customers."

Availability: Now

For more details visit www.altera.com