Stratix II GX FPGAs
Stratix® II GX FPGAs are Altera's third generation of FPGAs with embedded transceivers. Stratix II GX devices provide a strong solution for the growing number of applications and protocols requiring multi-gigabit serial I/O. These transceivers provide robust noise immunity and excellent jitter performance across an operating range of 600 Mbps to 6.375 Gbps, while maintaining the lowest power consumption. Stratix II GX FPGAs, available in production today, are built using the industry’s fastest and highest-density Stratix II FPGA fabric and integrate up to 20 serializer/deserializer (SERDES)-based transceivers.
Best in Class Signal Integrity
Stratix II GX device transceivers successfully operate at data rates up to 6.375 Gbps on transmission lines to 50" (1.25 m) in length, on boards and backplanes fabricated on standard FR-4 material, and up to 30 m of PCIe cable at 2.5 Gbps. To achieve this, the transceivers include a number of features to ensure signal integrity at these higher data rates, while maintaining low power. These include:
Complete Protocol Solution
Stratix II GX devices are part of a complete solution to key protocols used in many of today’s high-speed serial applications. Support is provided for PCI Express, CEI-6G, serial digital interface (SDI), Gigabit Ethernet, Serial RapidIO® (SRIO), XAUI, SerialLite II, Fibre Channel, and SONET standards. The complete solution includes:
Built on the Innovative Stratix II FPGA Logic Structure
Stratix II GX devices are built on the innovative adaptive logic module (ALM) logic structure found in Stratix II FPGAs, using TSMC's 90-nm, low-k dielectric process technology, optimized to maximize performance and control power leakage. The Stratix II GX FPGA family of devices provides up to 20 high-speed serial transceivers and up to 130 K equivalent logic elements (LEs), 6.7 Mbits of embedded memory with up to 252 (18-bit x 18-bit) multipliers for efficient implementation of high-performance filters and other digital signal processing (DSP) functions. Key features of the Stratix II GX FPGA architecture include:
Design with Confidence Using Stratix II GX FPGAs Today
All devices in the Stratix II GX FPGA family are shipping in production volume to customers. The following resources are now available from Altera and ecosystem partners to get you started designing with Altera® Stratix II GX devices, with more available over the coming months:
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