Altera Delivers World's First 28-Gbps FPGA for Next-Generation 100G and Beyond Systems

Industry's highest performance FPGA providing 28Gbps transceivers,
Supports throughput enhancements, performance boosts, and power savings in high-end applications.

Hong Kong, August 25, 2011—Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced that it has begun shipping the world's first FPGA with a 28-Gbps transceiver. Stratix® V GT devices are the industry's highest-bandwidth and highest-performance FPGAs available today. The industry-leading technology innovations in Stratix V GT FPGAs enable designers of advanced communications systems to quickly deliver solutions that support the ever-increasing demand for network bandwidth.

Stratix V GT FPGAs support the rapid growth of network traffic driven by the Internet and Internet Protocol (IP)-based services and applications. Innovative companies like JDSU leverage Altera's solutions to quickly access cutting-edge technologies for their next-generation test and measurement solutions.

“JDSU’s customers demand that our solutions be at the leading edge of technology, and having Altera as a partner gives us the advantage in providing our customers with cutting-edge devices that help them deploy high-performance, wideband communications applications,” said Lars Friedrich, vice president and general manager of JDSU’s Communications Test and Measurement business unit. “As the only FPGA currently offering 28 Gbps transceivers, Stratix V GT FPGAs enable us to integrate cutting-edge features into our systems to deliver the highest performance and data throughput.”

Stratix V GT FPGAs integrate over a decade of internally developed transceiver innovations into the industry's highest-performance 28nm process technology (28HP). The devices support backplane, optical module, and chip-to-chip applications with four 28Gbps transceivers, 32 full-duplex, 12.5Gbps transceivers, and up to 4x72-bit DIMMM DDR3 memory interfaces supporting 2133Mbps.

The 28 Gbps transceivers provided in Stratix V GT FPGAs can drastically reduce the bandwidth-per-power profile of a system, as they consume only 200 mW per channel while meeting the CEI-28G specification. A video demonstrating the transceiver performance of the Stratix V GT FPGA, "Sneak Peek: Industry's First 28-Gbps FPGA," is available on Altera's website.

Stratix V GT FPGAs are specifically optimized for the latest generation of 40G/100G applications in communications systems, high-end test equipment, and military communications systems. The devices offer the highest level of integration with up to 662K logic elements (LEs), 512 18x18 multipliers, hardened PCI Express® (PCIe®), 10 Gbps Ethernet (10GbE), and Interlaken IP blocks, and support for the latest high-speed serial protocols.

“By leveraging our optimized 28nm technology approach, which includes the highest-performance process and cutting-edge transceiver technology, we are helping customers like JDSU deliver the innovative bandwidth they need to rapidly deliver cutting-edge systems with greater confidence,” said Patrick Dorsey, senior director of product marketing at Altera. “Stratix V GT FPGAs deliver bandwidth and power efficiency unmatched by any other FPGA currently shipping in the industry, giving customers greater reach, flexibility and reliability for their products.”

Supply period
Engineering samples of Altera's Stratix V GT FPGAs are available now. For more information about the devices, visit www.altera.com/stratix5 or contact your local distributor. (UniQuest 031-776-9888)