Description

The EP2AGX45DF25I3N is an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) electronic component belonging to the Arria II device family from ALTERA. It is a 40-nm cost-optimized device with a low-power, programmable logic engine intended for applications requiring transceivers operating at up to 6.375 Gbps.

Specifications and features

• Low-power FPGA engine
• 40-nm architecture
• Adaptive logic module (ALM)
• Eight-input fracturable look-up table (LUT)
• Memory logic array blocks (MLABs)
• High-performance digital signal processing (DSP) blocks up to 550 MHz
• Maximum system bandwidth
• Up to 24 full-duplex clock data recovery (CDR)-based transceivers supporting rates between 600 Mbps and 6.375 Gbps
• Dedicated circuitry to support physical layer functionality for popular serial protocols
• 726 user I/O pins arranged in up to 20 modular I/O banks that support a wide range of single-ended and differential I/O standards
• Low power consumption

Application Scenarios

The EP2AGX45DF25I3N is suitable for applications requiring transceivers operating at high speeds such as PCIe Gen1 and PCIe Gen2, Gbps Ethernet, Serial RapidIO (SRIO), Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI), OBSAI, SD/HD/3G/ASI Serial Digital Interface (SDI), XAUI and Reduced XAUI (RXAUI), HiGig/HiGig+, SATA/Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), GPON, SerialLite II, Fiber Channel, SONET/SDH, Interlaken, Serial Data Converter (JESD204), and SFI-5.

Comparison

• Adaptive logic module (ALM)
• Eight-input fracturable look-up table (LUT)
• High-performance digital signal processing (DSP) blocks up to 550 MHz
• Maximum system bandwidth
• Low power consumption

No disadvantages have been reported for this model.