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&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" class="jiveNoBorder" style="border:0px solid #000000;width:100%;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="border:0px solid black;border:0px solid #000000;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;padding:3px;text-align:left;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;a href="/products/devtools/technicallibrary/w/documents/9958/altera-overview"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.element14.com/resized-image/__size/188x43/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-01-46/contentimage_5F00_17983.png"&gt;&lt;img alt="image" src="https://community-storage.element14.com/communityserver-components-secureimagefileviewer/communityserver/wikis/components/files/00/00/00/01/46/contentimage_17983.png-188x43.png?sv=2016-05-31&amp;amp;sr=b&amp;amp;sig=hGpqaTU%2F3ZFmxX3iuJuJUmjtq%2BzNyA1qgeFv4iSlp6o%3D&amp;amp;se=2026-04-27T23%3A59%3A59Z&amp;amp;sp=r&amp;amp;_=0xxM9V+0oQ3P0klT3jK8Qg==" style="max-height: 43px;max-width: 188px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:0px solid black;border:0px solid #000000;text-align:center;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;padding:3px;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;strike style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.element14.com/resized-image/__size/300x300/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-01-46/contentimage_5F00_17984.png"&gt;&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image" src="https://community-storage.element14.com/communityserver-components-secureimagefileviewer/communityserver/wikis/components/files/00/00/00/01/46/contentimage_17984.png-300x300.png?sv=2016-05-31&amp;amp;sr=b&amp;amp;sig=Q%2BeFVCRyALQ5CQx8iZmAmWnQRFQQUVfSBWZd%2FMZU3KE%3D&amp;amp;se=2026-04-27T23%3A59%3A59Z&amp;amp;sp=r&amp;amp;_=WzhvIYclS0VAIw+sd/qu/g==" style="max-height: 300px;max-width: 300px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:0px solid black;border:0px solid #000000;text-align:right;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;padding:3px;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;a href="/products/devtools/technicallibrary/w/documents/9456/development-kit-line-card---altera"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.element14.com/resized-image/__size/191x43/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-01-46/contentimage_5F00_17985.png"&gt;&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image" src="https://community-storage.element14.com/communityserver-components-secureimagefileviewer/communityserver/wikis/components/files/00/00/00/01/46/contentimage_17985.png-191x43.png?sv=2016-05-31&amp;amp;sr=b&amp;amp;sig=FuVB%2FVZzgbWA8VOmN%2FVxQWubp5IDVqgRm5pM0NJl8mY%3D&amp;amp;se=2026-04-27T23%3A59%3A59Z&amp;amp;sp=r&amp;amp;_=mDTQtb8mdt+yJ4pF8Q8Jig==" style="max-height: 43px;max-width: 191px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.element14.com/resized-image/__size/150x36/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-01-46/contentimage_5F00_17986.jpg"&gt;&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image" src="https://community-storage.element14.com/communityserver-components-secureimagefileviewer/communityserver/wikis/components/files/00/00/00/01/46/contentimage_17986.jpg-150x36.jpg?sv=2016-05-31&amp;amp;sr=b&amp;amp;sig=hoVN2er1RH4UFzcfmBdw1xVyvH6bQcwV4qMSOuFeRuc%3D&amp;amp;se=2026-04-27T23%3A59%3A59Z&amp;amp;sp=r&amp;amp;_=E7z6am5sD9AQfi7xflDuqQ==" style="max-height: 36px;max-width: 150px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cyclone FPGA Series&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;The Cyclone&lt;span class="emoticon" data-url="https://community.element14.com/cfs-file/__key/system/emoji/00ae.svg" title="Registered"&gt;&amp;#x00ae;&lt;/span&gt; FPGA series is built to satisfy your low-power, cost-sensitive design needs, enabling you to get to market faster. Each generation of Cyclone FPGAs solves your technical challenges of increased integration, increased performance, lower power, and faster time to market while meeting your cost-sensitive requirements.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;padding:0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" class="jiveBorder" style="border:1px solid #000000;width:80%;"&gt;&lt;thead&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;padding:3px;text-align:-webkit-center;background-color:#6690bc;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;padding:3px;text-align:-webkit-center;background-color:#6690bc;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-wiki-small" href="/products/devtools/technicallibrary/w/documents/10114/altera-cyclone-fpga-architecture-overview"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;Cyclone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;padding:3px;text-align:-webkit-center;background-color:#6690bc;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cyclone II&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;padding:3px;text-align:-webkit-center;background-color:#6690bc;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-wiki-small" href="/products/devtools/technicallibrary/w/documents/10098/altera-cyclone-iii-fpga-architecture-overview"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;Cyclone III&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;padding:3px;text-align:-webkit-center;background-color:#6690bc;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-wiki-small" href="/products/devtools/technicallibrary/w/documents/10099/altera-cyclone-iv-fpga-architecture-overview"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;Cyclone IV&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;padding:3px;text-align:-webkit-center;background-color:#6690bc;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-wiki-small" href="/products/devtools/technicallibrary/w/documents/10074/altera-cyclone-v-fpga-architecture-overview"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;Cyclone V&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/thead&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;background-color:transparent;padding:3px;text-align:left;color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Year Introduced&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;text-align:center;background-color:transparent;padding:3px;color:#000000;"&gt;2002&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;text-align:center;background-color:transparent;padding:3px;color:#000000;"&gt;2004&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;text-align:center;background-color:transparent;padding:3px;color:#000000;"&gt;2007&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;text-align:center;background-color:transparent;padding:3px;color:#000000;"&gt;2009&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;text-align:center;background-color:transparent;padding:3px;color:#000000;"&gt;2011&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;text-align:left;background-color:transparent;padding:3px;color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Process Technology&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;text-align:center;background-color:transparent;padding:3px;color:#000000;"&gt;130 nm&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;text-align:center;background-color:transparent;padding:3px;color:#000000;"&gt;90 nm&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;text-align:center;background-color:transparent;padding:3px;color:#000000;"&gt;65 nm&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;text-align:center;background-color:transparent;padding:3px;color:#000000;"&gt;60 nm&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;text-align:center;background-color:transparent;padding:3px;color:#000000;"&gt;28 nm&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;text-align:left;background-color:transparent;padding:3px;color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Recommended for New Designs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;text-align:center;background-color:transparent;padding:3px;color:#000000;"&gt;Yes&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;text-align:center;background-color:transparent;padding:3px;color:#000000;"&gt;Yes&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;text-align:center;background-color:transparent;padding:3px;color:#000000;"&gt;Yes&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;text-align:center;background-color:transparent;padding:3px;color:#000000;"&gt;Yes&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:1px solid black;border:1px solid #000000;text-align:center;background-color:transparent;padding:3px;color:#000000;"&gt;Yes&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;padding:0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;padding:0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-wiki-small" href="/products/devtools/technicallibrary/w/documents/10074/altera-cyclone-v-fpga-architecture-overview"&gt;Cyclone V&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - FPGAs provide the market’s lowest system cost and lowest power FPGA solution for applications in the industrial, wireless, wireline, broadcast, and consumer markets. The family integrates an abundance of hard intellectual property (IP) blocks to enable you to do more with less overall system cost and design time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;padding:0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;padding:0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-wiki-small" href="/products/devtools/technicallibrary/w/documents/10099/altera-cyclone-iv-fpga-architecture-overview"&gt;Cyclone IV&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;/strong&gt;FPGAs are the market&amp;#39;s lowest cost, lowest power FPGAs, now with a transceiver variant. The Cyclone IV FPGA family is targeted towards high-volume, cost-sensitive applications, enabling you to meet increasing bandwidth requirements while lowering costs. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;padding:0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;padding:0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-wiki-small" href="/products/devtools/technicallibrary/w/documents/10098/altera-cyclone-iii-fpga-architecture-overview"&gt;Cyclone III&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;/strong&gt;FPGAs offer you an unprecedented combination of low cost, high functionality, and power optimization to maximize your competitive edge. The Cyclone III FPGA family is manufactured using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company&amp;#39;s (TSMC&amp;#39;s) low-power (LP) process technology to deliver low power consumption at a price that rivals that of ASICs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;padding:0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;padding:0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cyclone II - &lt;/strong&gt;FPGAs are built from the ground up for low cost and to provide a customer-defined feature set for high-volume, cost-sensitive applications. Cyclone II FPGAs deliver high performance and low power consumption at a cost that rivals that of ASICs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;padding:0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;padding:0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-wiki-small" href="/products/devtools/technicallibrary/w/documents/10114/altera-cyclone-fpga-architecture-overview"&gt;Cyclone&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;/strong&gt;FPGAs are the original low-cost FPGAs. For today&amp;#39;s designs requiring advanced features and very low power, consider the higher density Cyclone IV and Cyclone III FPGAs. These newer Cyclone families will continue to provide you with industry-leading solutions for high-volume, low-cost applications.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;padding:0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;a class="jive-link-anchor-small" href="#top"&gt;Back to top&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin:0;padding:0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" class="jiveNoBorder" style="border:0px solid #000000;width:100%;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="border:0px solid black;border:0px solid #000000;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;padding:3px;text-align:left;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;a href="/products/devtools/technicallibrary/w/documents/9958/altera-overview"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.element14.com/resized-image/__size/188x43/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-01-46/contentimage_5F00_17983.png"&gt;&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image" src="https://community-storage.element14.com/communityserver-components-secureimagefileviewer/communityserver/wikis/components/files/00/00/00/01/46/contentimage_17983.png-188x43.png?sv=2016-05-31&amp;amp;sr=b&amp;amp;sig=hGpqaTU%2F3ZFmxX3iuJuJUmjtq%2BzNyA1qgeFv4iSlp6o%3D&amp;amp;se=2026-04-27T23%3A59%3A59Z&amp;amp;sp=r&amp;amp;_=0xxM9V+0oQ3P0klT3jK8Qg==" style="max-height: 43px;max-width: 188px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:0px solid black;border:0px solid #000000;text-align:center;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;padding:3px;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;strike style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.element14.com/resized-image/__size/300x300/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-01-46/contentimage_5F00_17987.png"&gt;&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image" src="https://community-storage.element14.com/communityserver-components-secureimagefileviewer/communityserver/wikis/components/files/00/00/00/01/46/contentimage_17987.png-300x300.png?sv=2016-05-31&amp;amp;sr=b&amp;amp;sig=%2FC9vqFnXI%2FlBgK96C5FKwQAJLYBvFgmS2CFozeOYW6Y%3D&amp;amp;se=2026-04-27T23%3A59%3A59Z&amp;amp;sp=r&amp;amp;_=WzhvIYclS0VAIw+sd/qu/g==" style="max-height: 300px;max-width: 300px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="border:0px solid black;border:0px solid #000000;text-align:right;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;padding:3px;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;a href="/products/devtools/technicallibrary/w/documents/9456/development-kit-line-card---altera"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="https://community.element14.com/resized-image/__size/191x43/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-01-46/contentimage_5F00_17985.png"&gt;&lt;img loading="lazy" alt="image" src="https://community-storage.element14.com/communityserver-components-secureimagefileviewer/communityserver/wikis/components/files/00/00/00/01/46/contentimage_17985.png-191x43.png?sv=2016-05-31&amp;amp;sr=b&amp;amp;sig=FuVB%2FVZzgbWA8VOmN%2FVxQWubp5IDVqgRm5pM0NJl8mY%3D&amp;amp;se=2026-04-27T23%3A59%3A59Z&amp;amp;sp=r&amp;amp;_=mDTQtb8mdt+yJ4pF8Q8Jig==" style="max-height: 43px;max-width: 191px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

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