SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec.
18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Altera
Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today announced it is demonstrating in
silicon DDR4 memory interfaces operating at an industry-leading
2,666 Mbps. Altera's Arria® 10 FPGAs and SoCs are the industry's
only FPGAs available today that support DDR4 memory at these data
rates, delivering a 43 percent improvement in memory performance
over previous generation FPGAs and a 10 percent improvement in
memory performance over competing 20 nm FPGAs. Hardware designers
today can use the latest Quartus® II software v14.1 to enable 2,666
Mbps DDR4 memory data rates in Arria 10 FPGA and SoC designs. A
video demonstration showing robust memory interfaces operating at
2,666 Mbps with margin is available for viewing at
www.altera.com/arria10.
Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs are the industry's highest performance
20 nm FPGAs and SoCs, offering a one speed-grade advantage over
competitive solutions. Supporting the industry's highest DDR4
memory performance enables communications, compute and storage, and
video processing applications to execute high memory bandwidth in
their systems, in a cost-effective, low-power manner. Arria 10 FPGA
and SoC memory interfaces support today's leading-edge, high-speed
memories, including HMC, DDR4, DDR3, LPDDR3, RLDRAM3, and QDR-IV/
-II+ Xtreme/ -II+/ -II.
"We architected the external memory interfaces in Arria 10 FPGAs
and SoCs to provide hardware designers an easy-to-use,
high-performance way to get data into and out of the device," said
Raj Patel, senior manager, midrange products, Altera Corporation.
"By delivering the industry's fastest DDR4 data rates we are able
to meet our customers' evolving system requirements which are being
driven by the tremendous growth in data volume."
Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs simplify the development of systems that
feature DDR4 memory by integrating a complete physical
interface and memory controller into the FPGA. The memory
interface is hardened in the FPGA fabric, which delivers higher
performance, higher bandwidth and lower power versus a soft
implementation. In addition, a hardened memory interface and
controller eliminate the need for designers to use logic resources
to build the DDR4 memory interface. Altera's Quartus II software
v14.1 includes a DDR4 PHY wizard and controller intellectual
property (IP), which further simplifies high-performance memory
interface design by automatically adapting to DIMMs from a variety
of memory suppliers.
Availability
Altera is shipping engineering samples of Arria 10 FPGAs today.
The latest Quartus II software v14.1 provides expanded support for
Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs. To learn more information about Arria 10
FPGAs and SoCs, visit www.altera.com/arria10. Quartus II software
v14.1 is available for download on www.altera.com.
About Altera
Altera® programmable solutions enable designers of electronic
systems to rapidly and cost effectively innovate, differentiate and
win in their markets. Altera offers FPGAs, SoCs, CPLDs and
complementary technologies, such as power management, to
provide high-value solutions to customers worldwide.
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Gabriel
Altera Corporation
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