Altera's Stratix IV FPGAs Named Product of the Year by Electronic Products China

Presented annually, Electronic Products China's Product of the Year Award is given to products that show significant progress in technology, innovative design or offer distinct price/performance improvements compared to competing devices. Stratix IV FPGAs deliver market leadership in density, performance and power, and offer an ideal solution for high-end digital applications in several markets, including wireless and wireline communications, military and broadcast.

The Stratix IV FPGAs provide extraordinary densities, performance and low-power leadership, said Karen Cui, executive editor-in-chief, Electronic Products China. Also, by shipping on schedule, these devices will help customers meet the diverse high-end application needs in a large number of markets. The Stratix IV FPGAs are very deserving of this award.

Stratix IV FPGAs include three variants, an enhanced (E) version and transceiver (GX) and (GT) versions. The family offers up to 680K logic elements, 22.4 Mbits of internal RAM and 1,360 18x18 embedded multipliers. The devices also utilize the latest architecture innovations and process techniques to deliver the lowest power and the highest performance of any high-end FPGA.

Stratix IV GX FPGAs feature up to 48 transceivers operating up to 8.5 Gbps, enabling the development of next-generation, high-bandwidth communication infrastructure. Optimized specifically for 40G and 100G applications, Stratix IV GT FPGAs have up to 48 multi-Gigabit transceivers with 24 operating at 11.3 Gbps. Stratix IV GX FPGAs incorporate up to four hard intellectual property (IP) cores for PCI Express Gen1 and Gen2 (x1, x4 and x8), and Stratix IV GT FPGAs incorporate one hard IP core for PCI Express Gen1 and Gen2 (x1 and x4). Both variants also support a wide range of protocols including Serial RapidIO, 40G/100G Ethernet, XAUI, CPRI (including 6G CPRI), CEI-6G, GPON, SFI-5.1 and Interlaken.