28Gbit/s-enabled FPGAs aimed at next-generation 100G systems
"JDSU’s customers’ demand our solutions be at the leading edge of technology, so having Altera as a partner ensures we are well positioned to deliver the most advanced instruments that enable our customers to deploy high-performance broadband communications applications," said Lars Friedrich, vice president and general manager in JDSU’s Communications Test and Measurement business segment. "As the only FPGAs available today with 28-Gbps transceivers, Stratix V GT FPGAs enable us to incorporate the most sophisticated functionality into our systems that deliver the highest performance and data throughput."
Altera says the Stratix V GT FPGAs integrate over a decade of internally developed transceiver technology innovations into the industry’s highest performance 28-nm process technology (28HP). The devices support backplane, optical module and chip-to-chip applications through four 28Gbit/s transceivers, 32 full-duplex, 12.5Gbit/s transceivers, and up to 4×72-bit DIMM DDR3 memory interfaces supporting 2133Mbit/s.
The 28Gbit/s transceivers featured in Stratix V GT FPGAs meet the CEI-28G specification while consuming only 200 mW per channel, dramatically reducing a system’s power-per-bandwidth profile. A video showing the transceiver performance of Stratix V GT FPGAs titled "Sneak Peek: Industry’s First 28-Gbps FPGA" is available for viewing on Altera’s website.
Stratix V GT FPGAs are optimized specifically for use in the latest generation of 40G/100G applications and beyond used in communications systems, high-end test equipment and military communications systems. The devices include the highest level of integration with up to 622K logic elements (LEs), 512 18×18 multipliers, hardened PCI Express (PCIe), 10Gbit/s Ethernet (10GbE) and Interlaken intellectual property blocks, and support the latest high-speed serial protocols.
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