Altera's 40nm Stratix IV FPGAs and HardCopy IV ASICs offer a design solution with high performance and low power consumption, delivering the highest logic utilization and fastest compile times. These devices provide new levels of integration, enabling innovation without compromise.
Introducing the market's first 40-nm devices, the Stratix IV FPGA family and HardCopy IV ASIC family deliver high density, high performance, and low power ideal for large system-on-a-chip designs. Both families are available with or without transceivers and offer vertical migration capabilities.
The document details the benefits of Programmable Power Technology, which automatically optimizes logic, DSP, and memory blocks for lowest power consumption. It also covers the enhanced transceiver block supporting protocols like PCIe and Ethernet, as well as the Quartus II software environment used for design.
Stratix IV FPGAs deliver up to 748 GMACS of DSP performance.
The FPGA fabric is two speed grades, or 35 percent, faster than that of the nearest competitor.
The transceivers support data rates of up to 8.5 Gbps.