Altera this morning announced Stratix V, their first 28nm FPGA. The new FPGA family provides up to 1.1 million logic elements, 53-Mbits embedded memory, 3,680 18x18 multipliers and integrated transceivers. The full press release can be found in the documents section of the FPGA group.
At first glance the highlights appear to be:
- Integrated transceivers operating up to 28 Gbps (though not all transceivers on a given Stratix V will be 28 Gbps-capable)
- Embedded HardCopy blocks providing the ability to quickly change hardened functions within the FPGA, enabling development of application-targeted device variants
- New variable-precision DSP blocks
What’s your take on this product?