Altera Corporation’s Cyclone III family is the industry’s first 65nm low-cost FPGAs. They consume 75% less power than competing FPGAs; and deliver 5 to 120K logic elements (LEs), up to 4Mbits of memory and up to 288 digital signal processing (DSP) multipliers. At 20% lower cost per logic element than the previous generation, the Cyclone III family enables designers to use FPGAs in more cost-sensitive applications than previously possible.
For example, Cyclone III devices enable engineers to integrate SDR waveforms in a single device for less than 0.5W of static power. Especially where size, weight, power and cost are the factors that matter, these devices enable design systems with best-in-class specifications in each of these areas, and ultimately enable new applications that were not possible before.
Furthermore, compared to the previous generation and competing products, the low power, high density and ample DSP capabilities of Cyclone III FPGAs allow designers to use the low-cost family in a broad range of new wireless applications, such as digital IF and baseband functions in wireless pico base stations.
Only Cyclone III FPGAs offer the right combination of DSP multipliers, memory and logic for video system I/O, video compression encoding, and video and image processing applications. Customers can implement a full H.264 encoder for under $20 or implement high-definition (HD) scaling for under $5.
Altera Corporation, www.altera.com
