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Intel® Cyclone® 10 GX FPGAs and Dev Kit

High bandwidth in a low-cost FPGA from Intel

Image of Intel®'s Cyclone® 10 GX FPGAsIntel® Cyclone 10 GX FPGAs provide 12.5 G transceiver-based functions, 1.4 Gigabits per second (Gbps) LVDS, and up to a 72-bit wide DDR3 SDRAM interface at up to 1,866 Megabits per second (Mbps). The family consists of high-performance and power-efficient 20 nm low-cost FPGAs delivering higher core, transceiver, and I/O performance than the previous generation of low-cost FPGAs. Intel Cyclone 10 GX FPGAs are optimized for high-bandwidth performance applications, such as machine vision, video connectivity, and smart vision cameras.

 
  • Enhanced core architecture
    • Built on TSMC's 20 nm process technology
    • Twice the performance of the previous generation of low-cost FPGAs
  • High-bandwidth integrated transceivers
    • Short-reach rates up to 12.5 Gbps
    • Backplane capability up to 6.6 Gbps
    • Hard PCIe IP blocks supporting up to Gen2 ×4 applications
  • Improved logic integration and hard IP blocks
    • 8-input adaptive logic module (ALM)
    • Up to 11.74 megabits (Mb) of embedded memory
    • Variable-precision digital signal processing (DSP) blocks
    • Fractional synthesis phase-locked loops (PLLs)
    • Hard memory controllers and PHY up to 1,866 Mbps
  • Advanced power savings
    • Comprehensive set of advanced power saving features
    • Power-optimized multi-track routing and core architecture
  • High-performance FPGA fabric
    • Enhanced 8-input ALM with four registers
    • Improved multi-track routing architecture to reduce congestion and improve compilation time
    • Hierarchical core clocking architecture
  • Internal memory blocks
    • M20 K to 20 Kb memory blocks with hard error correction code (ECC), cascadable
    • Memory logic array block (MLAB), 640-bit memory, cascadable

Dev Kit Features

The Intel Cyclone 10 GX FPGA development kit is populated with a 220 K logic element (LE) device along with 2 GB DDR3 SDRAM. The two channels for the small form-factor pluggable (SFP+) support 10GbE. Connections populated include a USB 3.1 Type-C port, 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet port, PCI Express® (PCIe®) X4 edge connector, and an FPGA mezzanine card (FMC) connector

At both the Intel Cyclone 10 GX FPGAs evaluation and the design concept stages, Intel provides a complete ecosystem which includes development kits, software, intellectual property, design examples, Design Solutions Network partners, and Engineer-to-Engineer videos to support designs. With Intel’s support alongside the Intel Cyclone 10 GX performance allows developers to build 10Gbps+ applications that utilize standards such as 10G Ethernet, 12G SDI II, USB 3.1, and GigE vision.

Published: 2019-01-15