Cyclone III low-cost FPGAs Unlimited possibilities Your design ideas have the potential to prosper. But, in the end, they are only as good as your ability to execute. Cyclone® III FPGAs deliver the value you need for cost-sensitive applications— the ability to produce more, sooner, and for less. With Cyclone III FPGAs, your potential for great design is unlimited. Watch your great ideas take root and grow. Unlimited possibilities Altera® Cyclone III low-cost FPGAs deliver an unprecedented combination of low power, high functionality, and low cost. Manufactured using the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s (TSMC’s) 65-nm low-power (LP) process technology, these devices consume very low power, often for a lower total cost than ASICs. Cyclone III FPGAs are part of our complete design solutions portfolio, ideal for your costsensitive, high-volume applications. With Cyclone III FPGAs, your great ideas will quickly turn into revenue. Your possibilities are unlimited. Cyclone III FPGAs • March 2007 • www.altera.com We deliver what you need— every time industry’s first low-cost 65-nm FPGA We know you’re pressed to go to market in a hurry with premium quality, cutting-edge products. We’re also aware that the days of deep pockets are over. At Altera, you drive our product definition. We listen to you carefully to uncover your design and business challenges, making you the inspiration for our next-generation products. And we’ll keep on listening—from product definition through design to delivery. We defined, designed, and are delivering Cyclone III FPGAs with the ideal features for your needs—nothing more, nothing less. After product definition, Altera uses a very rigorous product design process, working hand in hand with our foundry partner TSMC. We validate functionality with dozens of test chips to ensure quality and on-time delivery so you can design with confidence. The FPGA advantage gets you to market first You’re in a race and anything you can do to be more efficient is going to positively impact your bottom line. FPGAs give you the flexibility you need because they are reprogrammable. Even after your product is in the market, you can make updates on the fly and adapt to market changes fast. You can use Cyclone III FPGAs as the heart of your system. If you already have an ASIC in your system, you can use Cyclone III FPGAs to coprocess and enhance your current product with added features. Or, you can offload functionality from the ASIC onto the Cyclone III FPGA. You can use our devices for typical ASSP functions and not be locked into keeping that functionality in the future. The real benefit: shorter development time and low cost. You’ll cut your time from a year or more to just weeks. You can continuously introduce feature enhancements and respond to customer needs or competitor threats. The risk is next to none. Cyclone III FPGAs • March 2007 • www.altera.com Features and benefits Cyclone CycloneIIIIIIfloorplan floorplan You can turn ideas into revenue faster than ever because we deliver numerous features and benefits that help you lower your system and development costs. Flexibility enables you to keep up with fast-evolving standards easily. Scalable digital signal processing (DSP) performance and embedded memory let you increase or enhance feature sets. All of this with the lowest power consumption of any FPGA available today. To top it off, we’re the lowest-cost FPGA solution around. Choose Altera to win. Phase-locked loops M9K memory blocks Logic array Embedded 18-bit x 18-bit multipliers Side I/O cells with support for LVDS signals up to 875 Mbps Top and bottom I/O cells for memory interfaces up to 400 Mbps Lowest-power 65-nm FPGAs Cost optimized for the best value anywhere Complete system integration Cyclone III FPGAs • March 2007 • www.altera.com • Manufactured using a low-power 65-nm process technology. • Core static power as low as 35 mW at 25oC junction temperature. • Support for hot-socketing operation so unused I/O banks can be turned off when there’s no current. • Low-power benefits include: system thermal management, elimination or reduction in cooling system costs, and extended battery life for portable applications. • Staggered I/O ring to reduce die size and board space. • Selection of low-cost packages. • Support for low-cost serial flash and commodity parallel flash configuration devices. • Cyclone series FPGAs are built from the ground up for low cost. • 1.7 times the density to 120,000 logic elements (LEs) and over 3.5 times the embedded memory to 4 Mbits over Cyclone II FPGAs. • 260-MHz multiplier performance with the highest multiplier-to-logic ratio in the industry. • Robust clock management and synthesis with dynamically reconfigurable and flexible phase-locked loops (PLLs). • Improved signal integrity with adjustable I/O slew rates. • Support for high-speed external memory interfaces including DDR, DDR2, SDR SDRAM, and QDRII SRAM with an autocalibrating PHY for fast timing closure. • Support for I/O standards including LVTTL, LVCMOS, SSTL, HighSpeed Transceiver Logic (HSTL), PCI Express, LVPECL, LVDS, miniLVDS, reduced swing differential signaling (RSDS), and point-to-point differential signaling (PPDS). Forging ahead in new applications Due to their unprecedented combination of low power, high functionality, and low cost, you can use Cyclone III FPGAs in an ever-expanding list of high-volume applications—many of which were previously exclusive to ASICs and ASSPs. These are just a few of the many application areas where we can help you prosper. Video and image processing Game, set, match point. You’ll catch all the action clearly in both standard-definition and highdefinition transmissions. Our devices are a perfect fit for DSP, video system I/O, video compression encoding and decoding, and other video and image processing tasks. Drive these cost-sensitive applications and others with the parallel processing capability of DSP-rich and memory-rich Cyclone III FPGAs. The ball keeps moving faster. With us, you’ll stay a step ahead. Displays Wireless Picture perfect. That’s what you want to achieve, whether it’s liquid crystal displays, plasma display panels, plasma low-profile, or liquid crystal on silicon. Of course, you have to reach your goals faster and cheaper than the competition. And there’s a lot of competition to beat. We help you create a single platform that can be used for multiple product lines and image resolutions. You’ll be able to deliver the latest feature set in no time. Get to volume first using display-optimized features to seamlessly integrate designs, rapidly update products, and lower costs in your system so you’re crystal clear. Connecting on the go shapes our world. People keep moving farther, faster, in no time, and so does the wireless technology that makes it all possible. In areas such as digital intermediate frequency (IF) and baseband modems, you can achieve high-bandwidth parallel processing. Lower your cost and power consumption with Cyclone III DSP-rich and memory-rich FPGAs. Make the world a better connected place. The complete answer for your design challenges Get started now. Download your free Quartus II Web Edition software to design with Cyclone III FPGAs today. Your creative energy can bring about the next blockbuster product. Altera’s suite of complete, easy-to-use, free tools and support assure you of a smooth and successful design process. We give you a complete answer for your design challenges. With Altera, you can focus your creative energy on the leading edge— exactly where you belong. Maximize productivity with Quartus II design software Quartus® II software is the industry leader in performance and productivity for low-power, low-cost FPGA designs. Automatic system-level integration and industry-leading compile times will help you close timing faster. You will also benefit from our automated power analysis and optimization features. Quartus II software makes designing easy and fast, so you can move more of your designs to production sooner. Cyclone III FPGAs • March 2007 • www.altera.com Intellectual property Nios II embedded processor Altera and its partners provide off-the-shelf intellectual property (IP) cores. You can use these pre-optimized cores easily, reducing design and test time. Get the performance you need with the right feature set and keep costs down. With the versatility of our Nios® II soft-core embedded processor, you can build an exact-fit processor, customized for your application in minutes. A Nios II processor implemented in a Cyclone III FPGA allows you to choose the exact set of CPUs, peripherals, and interfaces that you need ,and to remotely upgrade in the field. You can address changing requirements to stay competitive. You can also increase performance without changing your board design—accelerating only functions that need it and combining many functions onto one chip. With the Nios II embedded processor, you’ll lower overall cost, design complexity, and power consumption. Assemble an exact-fit processor system every time with the world’s most versatile processor. Low-cost development kits and free reference designs The Cyclone III FPGA Starter Kit is available today to get your next design up and running in hardware as quickly as possible. Whether your’re designing for communications, embedded systems hardware or software, or vertical market areas such as video and image processing, display, wireless, or another high-volume, costsensitive application, Altera and partner development kits give you everything you need to create and implement your design right out of the box. Cyclone III device overview Device features that deliver functionality. Device LEs M9K Memory Blocks Total Memory (Mbits) Multipliers PLLs Total Global Clocks Maximum User I/O Pins EP3C5 5,136 46 0.4 23 2 10 182 EP3C10 10,320 46 0.4 23 2 10 182 EP3C16 15,408 56 0.5 56 4 20 346 EP3C25 24,624 66 0.6 66 4 20 215 EP3C40 39,600 126 1.1 126 4 20 535 EP3C55 55,856 260 2.3 156 4 20 377 EP3C80 81,264 305 2.7 244 4 20 428 EP3C120 119,088 432 3.9 288 4 20 531 Cyclone III package overview1 A selection of low-cost packages and user I/O pin counts. Device E144 EP3C5 94 EP3C10 94 EP3C16 84 160 168 EP3C25 82 148 156 EP3C40 1 Q240 F256 F324 F484 F780 182 U484 182 182 128 U256 182 346 168 215 195 346 156 331 535 331 EP3C55 327 377 217 EP3C80 295 429 295 EP3C120 283 531 For more information on packages, see Cyclone FPGA Series Package and I/O Matrix at www.altera.com/selectorguides. Cyclone III FPGAs • March 2007 • www.altera.com Now’s the time to prosper. Go ahead and catapult your great design ideas into unstoppable growth—your possibilities are unlimited. 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