Intel/Altera EP4CE6F17C8N

Altera’s new Cyclone IV FPGA device family extends the Cyclone FPGA series leadership in providing the lowest-cost, lowest-power FPGAs, now with a transceiver variant. Cyclone IV devices are targeted to high-volume, cost-sensitive applications, enabling system designers to meet increasing bandwidth requirements while lowering costs. Built on an optimized low-power process, the Cyclone IV device family offers the following two variants: Cyclone IV E—lowest power, high functionality with the lowest cost Cyclone IV GX—lowest power and lowest cost FPGAs with 3.125 Gbp transceivers Cyclone IV E devices are offered in core voltage of 1.0 V and 1.2 V. Providing power and cost savings without sacrificing performance, along with a low-cost integrated transceiver option, Cyclone IV devices are ideal for low-cost, small-form-factor applications in the wireless, wireline, broadcast, industrial, consumer, and communications industries.

• Low-cost, low-power FPGA fabric
• 6K to 150K logic elements
• Up to 6.3 Mb of embedded memory
• Up to 360 18x18 multipliers for DSP processing intensive applications
• Protocol bridging applications for under 1.5 W total power
• Cyclone IV GX devices offer up to eight high-speed transceivers that provide:
  • Data rates up to 3.125 Gbps
  • 8B/10B encoder/decoder
  • 8-bit or 10-bit physical media attachment (PMA) to physical coding sublayer (PCS) interface
  • Byte serializer/deserializer (SERDES)
  • Word aligner
  • Rate matching FIFO
  • TX bit slipper for Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI)
  • Electrical idle
  • Dynamic channel reconfiguration allowing you to change data rates and protocols on-the-fly
  • Static equalization and pre-emphasis for superior signal integrity
  • 150 mW per channel power consumption
  • Flexible clocking structure to support multiple protocols in a single transceive block
• Cyclone IV GX devices offer dedicated hard IP for PCI Express (PIPE) (PCIe) Gen 1:
  • x1, x2, and x4 lane configurations
  • End-point and root-port configurations
  • Up to 256-byte payload
  • One virtual channel
  • 2 KB retry buffer
  • 4 KB receiver (Rx) buffer
• Cyclone IV GX devices offer a wide range of protocol support:
  • PCIe (PIPE) Gen 1 x1, x2, and x4 (2.5 Gbps)
  • Gigabit Ethernet (1.25 Gbps)
  • CPRI (up to 3.072 Gbps)
  • XAUI (3.125 Gbps)
  • Triple rate serial digital interface (SDI) (up to 2.97 Gbps)
  • Serial RapidIO (3.125 Gbps)
  • Basic mode (up to 3.125 Gbps)
  • V-by-One (up to 3.0 Gbps)
  • DisplayPort (2.7 Gbps)
  • Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) (up to 3.0 Gbps)
  • OBSAI (up to 3.072 Gbps)
• Up to 532 user I/Os
• LVDS interfaces up to 840 Mbps transmitter (Tx), 875 Mbps Rx
• Support for DDR2 SDRAM interfaces up to 200 MHz
• Support for QDRII SRAM and DDR SDRAM up to 167 MHz
• Up to eight phase-locked loops (PLLs) per device
• Offered in commercial and industrial temperature grades

• Wireless
• Wired
• Broadcast
• Industrial
• Consumer
• Communications