1. Overview for the Stratix IV Device
Family
January 2016
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Altera Stratix IV FPGAs deliver a breakthrough level of system bandwidth and
power efficiency for high-end applications, allowing you to innovate without
compromise. Stratix IV FPGAs are based on the Taiwan Semiconductor
Manufacturing Company (TSMC) 40-nm process technology and surpass all other
high-end FPGAs, with the highest logic density, most transceivers, and lowest power
requirements.
The Stratix IV device family contains three optimized variants to meet different
application requirements:
Stratix IV E (Enhanced) FPGAsup to 813,050 logic elements (LEs), 33,294 kilobits
(Kb) RAM, and 1,288 18 x 18 bit multipliers
Stratix IV GX transceiver FPGAsup to 531,200 LEs, 27,376 Kb RAM, 1,288
18 x 18-bit multipliers, and 48 full-duplex clock data recovery (CDR)-based
transceivers at up to 8.5 Gbps
Stratix IV GTup to 531,200 LEs, 27,376 Kb RAM, 1,288 18 x 18-bit multipliers,
and 48 full-duplex CDR-based transceivers at up to 11.3 Gbps
The complete Altera high-end solution includes the lowest risk, lowest total cost path
to volume using HardCopy IV ASICs for all the family variants, a comprehensive
portfolio of application solutions customized for end-markets, and the industry
leading Quartus II software to increase productivity and performance.
f For information about upcoming Stratix IV device features, refer to the Upcoming
Stratix IV Device Features document.
f For information about changes to the currently published Stratix IV Device Handbook,
refer to the Addendum to the Stratix IV Device Handbook chapter.
This chapter contains the following sections:
Feature Summary on page 12
Architecture Features on page 16
Integrated Software Platform on page 119
Ordering Information on page 119
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Feature Summary
Feature Summary
The following list summarizes the Stratix IV device family features:
Up to 48 full-duplex CDR-based transceivers in Stratix IV GX and GT devices
supporting data rates up to 8.5 Gbps and 11.3 Gbps, respectively
Dedicated circuitry to support physical layer functionality for popular serial
protocols, such as PCI Express (PCIe) (PIPE) Gen1 and Gen2, Gbps Ethernet (GbE),
Serial RapidIO, SONET/SDH, XAUI/HiGig, (OIF) CEI-6G, SD/HD/3G-SDI, Fibre
Channel, SFI-5, and Interlaken
Complete PCIe protocol solution with embedded PCIe hard IP blocks that
implement PHY-MAC layer, Data Link layer, and Transaction layer functionality
f For more information, refer to the IP Compiler for PCI Express User Guide.
Programmable transmitter pre-emphasis and receiver equalization circuitry to
compensate for frequency-dependent losses in the physical medium
Typical physical medium attachment (PMA) power consumption of 100 mW at
3.125 Gbps and 135 mW at 6.375 Gbps per channel
72,600 to 813,050 equivalent LEs per device
7,370 to 33,294 Kb of enhanced TriMatrix memory consisting of three RAM block
sizes to implement true dual-port memory and FIFO buffers
High-speed digital signal processing (DSP) blocks configurable as 9 x 9-bit,
12 x 12-bit, 18 x 18-bit, and 36 x 36-bit full-precision multipliers at up to 600 MHz
Up to 16 global clocks (GCLK), 88 regional clocks (RCLK), and 132 periphery
clocks (PCLK) per device
Programmable power technology that minimizes power while maximizing device
performance
Up to 1,120 user I/O pins arranged in 24 modular I/O banks that support a wide
range of single-ended and differential I/O standards
Support for high-speed external memory interfaces including DDR, DDR2,
DDR3 SDRAM, RLDRAM II, QDR II, and QDR II+ SRAM on up to 24 modular
I/O banks
High-speed LVDS I/O support with serializer/deserializer (SERDES), dynamic
phase alignment (DPA), and soft-CDR circuitry at data rates up to 1.6 Gbps
Support for source-synchronous bus standards, including SGMII, GbE, SPI-4
Phase 2 (POS-PHY Level 4), SFI-4.1, XSBI, UTOPIA IV, NPSI, and CSIX-L1
Pinouts for Stratix IV E devices designed to allow migration of designs from
Stratix III to Stratix IV E with minimal PCB impact
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