Dubbed as the FPGA industry's highest performance backplane-capable transceivers, the Stratix V FPGAs are the industry’s only FPGAs to offer 14.1 Gbps transceiver bandwidth and are the only FPGAs capable of supporting the latest generation of the fibre channel protocol.
The FPGA transceiver chips were fabricated with the chipmaker’s latest generation of 28nm manufacturing process.
Altera began shipping engineering samples of the 28nm FPGAs more than one year ago.
Altera started to ping engineering samples of 28-nm FPGAs.
The transceivers in Stratix V GX and Stratix V GS FPGAs deliver high system bandwidth of up to 66 lanes at a s speed of 14.1, but at the lowest power consumption of under 200 mW per channel.
Transceivers in Altera's FPGAs are fabricated with advanced equalization circuit blocks, including low-power CTLE (continuous time linear equalization), DFE (decision feedback equalization), and a variety of other signal conditioning features for optimal signal integrity to support backplane, optical module, and chip-to-chip applications.
This advanced signal conditioning circuitry enables direct drive of 10GBASE-KR backplanes using Stratix V FPGAs.
"Developers of next-generation protocols need to leverage the latest test equipment that integrates the latest technologies," said Michael Romm, vice president of product development, at LeCroy Protocol Solutions Group, a leading manufacturer of test and measurement equipment.
"Altera's latest family of 28-nm FPGAs gives us the capability to build the most sophisticated and advanced test equipment so our customers can rapidly develop and bring to market their next-generation systems."
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Good fit for data centers & storage area networks
Stratix V FPGAs family are ideally suited for large-scale, storage-intensive systems by simplifying the interconnection of different components in the data center or storage area network.
The FPGA's built-in 14.1-Gbps transceivers provide a dedicated mode for implementing the XAUI interface that is available for 16GFC, enabling the efficient implementation of the entire interface in a single device.
Evolving Optical Transport Networks with Stratix V FPGAs
The backbone of next-generation optical transport is evolving rapidly to support a variety of high data rate applications (voice, video, storage).
Stratix V FPGAs are enabling this evolution by supporting the widest range of transceiver data rate speeds, up to 28 Gbps in the Stratix V GT family.
Stratix V FPGAs combined with Altera's IP portfolio is capable of supporting multiple 100G OTN links on a single device that scales from OTU2 through OTU4 and supports ODU multiplexing including ODU0 and ODUFlex.
"Stratix V FPGAs provide an excellent implementation vehicle for next-generation switch fabric architectures due to their flexibility and reliable integrated serial links that enable the fastest backplane speeds with numerous coding and FEC options, and support for standards such as 10GBASE-KR," saidPatrick Dorsey, senior director of component product marketing at Altera.
"As the only FPGA vendor to offer devices today with integrated 14.1 Gbps capable transceivers, Altera is leading the industry in enabling the deployment of 10G, 40G, and 100G+ platforms."
Stratix V FPGAs in 28nm node
The transceiver integrated in Stratix V FPGAs include on-die instrumentation, low-jitter LC transmit PLLs (phase-locked loops), robust analog receive CDR (clock data recovery), and advanced transmit and receive equalization providing flexibility for a wide range of applications.
Altera's Stratix V GT FPGAs also feature the industry's only 28-Gbps transceiver integrated in a single-chip, monolithic die. The transceivers featured in Stratix V FPGAs feature a full-featured physical coding sublayer (PCS) including, support for PCI Express® Gen1/2/3, support for 40G and 100G datapath and extensive IP (intellectual property) library of industry-standard transceiver protocols.
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