Devices for 3-Gbps Applications Support PCI Express Gen1
Altera
Corporation (NASDAQ:ALTR) today announced its 40-nm Arria® II
GX FPGAs are compliant with the PCI Express® (PCIe®)
2.0 specification. The device successfully passed the PCI-SIG®
Compliance and Interoperability Tests at the PCI-SIG Workshop and is now
included on the PCI-SIG
Integrators List. Arria II GX FPGAs achieved compliance for up to x8
lane configurations for PCIe Gen1 end-point applications.
Currently shipping, Altera's mid-range Arria II GX FPGAs feature
integrated transceivers with data rates up to 3.75 Gbps, and have a
hard, configurable PCIe interface embedded within the device. The
device's hard IP block implements PCIe Gen1 (PIPE) PHY-MAC, data link,
and transaction layers. This IP block is highly configurable to meet the
requirements to support end-point and root-port applications, and is
PCIe 2.0 compliant in x1-, x4- and x8-lane configurations.
"Arria II GX FPGAs are the only mid-range FPGAs that have attained PCIe
2.0 compliance," said Luanne Schirrmeister, senior director of component
product marketing at Altera. "They offer 25 percent higher performance,
up to 50 percent lower price and up to 50 percent lower power compared
to competitive FPGAs."
Arria II GX FPGAs are targeted for applications using mainstream
protocols such as PCIe and Gigabit Ethernet (GbE). The devices have up
to sixteen 3.75-Gbps transceivers, 256K logic elements (LEs) and 8.5
Mbits of internal RAM.
Pricing and Availability
The Arria II GX EP2AGX125 device is currently available. Contact your
Altera® sales representative for pricing. For more
information about Altera's Arria II GX FPGAs, visit www.altera.com/products/devices/arria-fpgas.
To learn more about the PCIe capabilities featured in Arria II GX FPGAs,
visit www.altera.com/pr/products/ip/iup/pci-express.
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