Altera Stratix FPGA Series Overview

atomar — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:21:34 GMT

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Stratix FPGA Series

The Stratix® FPGA series enables you to deliver high-performance, state-of-the-art products to market faster with lower risk and higher productivity. By combining high density, high performance, and a rich feature set, Stratix series FPGAs allow you to integrate more functions and maximize system bandwidth.

	Stratix	Stratix GX	Stratix II	Stratix II GX	Stratix III	Stratix IV	Stratix V
Year Introduced	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2008	2010
Process Technology	130 nm	130 nm	90 nm	90 nm	65 nm	40 nm	28 nm
Recommended for New Designs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Stratix FPGA have HardCopy® ASIC equivalent devices. HardCopy ASICs provide a path to low-cost volume production with low risk through FPGA prototyping of your design. Stratix series FPGAs are also ideal for the prototyping and verification of standard-cell ASICs.

Stratix V FPGAs provide the highest bandwidth, highest levels of system integration, and ultimate flexibility of any 28-nm FPGA. The device family includes variants with backplane-compatible, chip-to-chip, and chip-to-module capable 14.1-Gbps (GS and GX) and chip-to-chip and chip-to-module 28G (GT) transceivers, 950K logic elements (LEs), and up to 3,926 variable-precision digital signal processing (DSP) blocks.

Stratix IV FPGAs provide the highest density, highest performance, and lowest power of any 40-nm FPGA. With enhanced (E) and enhanced with transceivers (GX and GT) variants, Stratix IV FPGAs address many markets and applications, such as wireless and wireline communications, military, and broadcast. This high-performance 40-nm FPGA family includes the best-in-class 11.3-Gbps transceivers.

Stratix III FPGAs are the industry's lowest power high-performance 65-nm FPGAs. Logic rich (L) and enhanced for memory and digital signal processing (E) variants allow you to balance your resource requirements to your design without having to design in a device any bigger than is absolutely necessary - saving board real estate, compilation time, and money. Stratix III FPGAs target high-end core system processing designs in many applications.

Stratix II FPGAs and the Stratix II GX variants introduced the adaptive logic module (ALM) architecture, which uses a high-performance, 8-input fracturable look-up table (LUT) in place of a 4-input LUT. You'll find this innovative ALM logic structure used in Altera's newest high-end FPGAs. Stratix II and Stratix II GX FPGAs are available in volume and are still highly recommended for new designs.

Stratix FPGAs and the Stratix GX variants are the original members of the Altera® Stratix FPGA series. This high-performance FPGA family introduced digital signal processing hard intellectual property (IP) blocks along with Altera's ubiquitous TriMatrix on-chip memory and flexible I/O structures.