Stratix IV GX FPGAs deliver an unprecedented combination of power, performance and I/O bandwidth to designers manufacturing multi-gigabit interconnected systems. The high-performance FPGAs feature Altera’s latest generation of proven transceiver technology. The 36 transceivers embedded in the EP4SGX230 FPGA offer superior signal integrity with excellent 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 18×18 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.”