Arria II FPGAs: Cost-Optimized, Lowest Power 6G Transceiver FPGAs

Altera’s Arria^® II FPGA family—now with 6.375-Gbps transceivers—delivers substantial cost and power savings over competitive devices, while providing high functionality. The 40-nm Arria II family now comes in two variants:

• Arria II GX FPGAs: Now with transceivers at speeds up to 6.375 Gbps, Arria II GX FPGAs deliver a rich set of features at low cost.
• Arria II GZ FPGAs: The new Arria II GZ variant provides more 6.375-Gbps transceivers, density, embedded memory, and digital signal processing (DSP) capabilities compared to Arria II GX FPGAs

New Development Kit: Start Your Design Today

Arria II GX FPGAs with 6.375-Gbps transceivers are now shipping and are supported in Quartus® II design software. Download the software today.

Arria II GZ FPGAs will begin shipping and be supported by Quartus II software in Q4 2010.

Get a head start on your design with the Arria II GX FPGA Development Kit, 6G Edition with 6.375-Gbps transceivers. The kit includes:

• Quartus II Software Development Kit Edition
• Support for PCI Express Gen1 x4
• 128-MB 16-bit DDR3 interface
• 1-GB 64-bit DDR2 SODIMM interface
• 2-MB SSDRAM interface

Arria II GX FPGA: Enhanced With 6.375-Gbps Transceivers

Now shipping, Arria II GX FPGAs have been enhanced to provide greater functionality without a trade-off in price or power:

• Up to 16 6.375-Gbps transceivers
• Up to 256K logic elements (LEs)
• Faster DSP capabilities, up to 380 MHz
• External memory, up to 333-MHz DDR3
• Faster I/Os, up to 1.25-Gbps LVDS
• Up to 50 percent lower static power and 20 percent less total power than competing devices

Arria II GX FPGAs are ideal for applications in a range of areas, including communications, computer/storage, test, and medical.

Arria II GZ FPGAs: Equipped for High-Bandwidth Communications Applications

Ideal for high-bandwidth wireless and wireline applications, Arria II GZ FPGAs further extend the capabilities of the Arria II family. You get more functionality without sacrificing price or power:

• Up to 350K LEs
• Up to 24 6.375-Gbps transceivers
• Up to 380-MHz DSP capabilities
• Up to 400-MHz DDR3 memory interfaces and support for RLDRAM
• Up to 1.25-Gbps LVDS
• Broad protocol support, including PCI Express Gen2, CPRI-6, OBSAI, SATA, Fiber Channel, Interlaken, and Hi Gig+

Learn More About the Arria II Family

• Read the white papers:
• Understanding 40-nm FPGA Solutions for SATA/SAS (PDF)
  
• Implementing a Multirate Uncompressed Video Interface for Broadcast Applications (PDF)
  
• Optical Transport Networks for 100G Implementation in FPGAs (PDF)
• Innovating With a Full Spectrum of 40-nm FPGAs and ASICs With Transceivers (PDF)

• Read the solution sheets:
  • Designing Base Transceiver Station (BTS) Channel Cards with Transceiver FPGAs and ASICs
  • Designing Remote Radio Head Applications with Transceiver FPGAs
  • Wireless End Market Solutions
  • GPON Solutions from Altera