Production shipment of 40-nm Arria II GX FPGAs from Altera

Altera is now shipping its 40-nm Arria II GX FPGA device family for high-volume applications such as broadcast, military, wireless and wireline markets.

The Arria II GX FPGAs now shipping in production include the EP2AGX45 and the EP2AGX65, featuring 45K logic elements (LEs) and 65K LEs. The devices provide high system bandwidth and power efficiency for cost- and power-sensitive applications including access equipment, remote radio head, HD video cameras and military security equipment. The eight embedded transceivers offered in the EP2AGX45 and EP2AGX65 operate at data rates up to 3.75 Gbps.

Arria II GX FPGAs support serial protocols such as PCI Express (PCIe), Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), CPRI, GPON, XAUI and triple-speed SDI.

"Our 40-nm FPGA portfolio supports a wide range of performance, densities and price points that enable our customers to quickly bring their unique, high-performance applications to market," said Luanne Schirrmeister, senior director of component product marketing at Altera. "The production availability of Arria II GX FPGAs helps us uniquely target the growing number of cost-sensitive applications that require higher bandwidth and higher complexity devices."

Availability: In full production by the end of the Q1 of 2010

For more details visit www.altera.com