Altera to Ship Stratix IV GX FPGAs

Altera announced it is shipping volume production of its 40-nm Stratix IV GX EP4SGX230 FPGAs.

The Stratix IV family offers the highest density FPGAs available immediately, and is used in a variety of end customer's high-speed backplane and cabling interfaces, chip-to-chip interconnects and protocol-bridging applications.

Stratix IV GX FPGAs feature Altera's transceiver technology. The 36 transceivers embedded in the EP4SGX230 FPGA offer signal integrity with jitter performance at data rates operating between 600 Mbps and 8.5 Gbps. The transceivers support several key industry standards and serial protocols such as PCI Express Gen1 and Gen2 (x1, x4 and x8), Serial RapidIO, Gigabit Ethernet, XAUI, CPRI (including 6G CPRI), CEI 6G, GPON, SFI-5.1 and Interlaken. The EP4SGX230 FPGA features 230K logic elements (LEs), 13.9 Mbits of embedded memory and 1,288 18x18 multipliers.

"The significant lead we have on the competition at the 40-nm node has enabled us to establish Stratix IV FPGAs as the most widely adopted 40-nm FPGAs in the industry," said Luanne Schirrmeister, senior director of component product marketing at Altera. "We continue to hit every key milestone in rolling out our 40-nm devices and remain on target to deliver our entire family of Stratix IV FPGAs to customers."

The Stratix IV GX EP4SGX230 FPGA is now shipping in volume production. Engineering samples of Altera Stratix IV E, Stratix IV GX and Stratix IV GT FPGAs are also available. Altera remains on schedule to ship its entire Stratix IV FPGA family in volume production by April 2010.

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