Altera's Latest Low-power FPGAs Enable Highest Integration for Portable Applications

(Product News, 28 Mar 2008)

Altera Corp. has launched its latest family of 65nm Cyclone III FPGAs that comes in 8x8mm packaging (M164). Designed for space-constrained high-volume applications in consumer, military and industrial markets, the devices have up to 16K logic elements (LEs), extending the Cyclone III FPGA's high-density small-package offering that includes 14x14mm 256-pin (U256) and 17x17mm 484-pin (U484) packages.

Cyclone III devices consume 75 percent less power than competing FPGAs while delivering 5K to 120K LEs, up to 4Mb of memory and up to 288 digital signal processing (DSP) multipliers. Further, the Cyclone III FPGA family delivers as much as 60 percent faster performance than competing low-cost FPGAs. Built on TSMC's 65nm Low-Power (LP) process, the Cyclone III family includes devices that are qualified for commercial, industrial and extended temperatures.

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