Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGA and SoC FPGA

Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGA and SoC FPGA deliver innovative advantages in performance, power efficiency, density, and system integration. Featuring the revolutionary Intel® Hyperflex™ FPGA Architecture and built combining Intel's patented Embedded Multi-Die Interconnect Bridge (EMIB) technology, the Advanced Interface Bus (AIB), and a growing portfolio of chiplets, Intel® Stratix® 10 devices deliver up to 2X performance gains over previous-generation, high-performance FPGA.1

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Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGA and SoC FPGA

Intel® Stratix® 10 GX FPGA

Designed to meet the high-performance demands of high-throughput systems.

Intel® Stratix® 10 SX SoC FPGA

Features hard processor system with 64 bit quad-core ARM* Cortex-A53 processor.

Intel® Stratix® 10 TX FPGA

Delivers the most advanced transceiver capabilities in the industry by combining H- and E- transceiver tiles.

Intel® Stratix® 10 MX FPGA

Essential multi-function accelerator for high performance computing (HPC).

Intel® Stratix® 10 DX FPGA

Supports Intel® Ultra Path Interconnect for direct coherent connection to future select Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.

Intel® Stratix® 10 NX FPGA

Designed to meet the high-performance demands of high-throughput systems.

Intel® Stratix® 10 AX FPGA

Delivers direct RF capabilities by integrating high-performance data converters.

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Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGA Features and Benefits

Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGA devices address the design challenges in next-generation, high-performance systems in wireline and wireless communications, computing, storage, military, broadcast, medical, and test and measurement end markets.

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Up to 2x Core Performance1

The ground breaking Intel® Hyperflex™ FPGA Architecture delivers up to 2X the core performance.1 With the Intel® Stratix® 10 family, you can extract high levels of performance with up to 8.6 TFLOPS of single-precision floating-point DSP performance and up to twenty 100 GbE interfaces.

Up to 7x Transceiver Bandwidth vs. Previous Generation FPGA1

Breakthrough Bandwidth Barrier with up to 144 transceivers in a single device, with data rates up to 57.8 Gbps PAM-4 and 28.9 Gbps NRZ. Up to 287.5 Gbps of DDR4 memory bandwidth. Up to 512 Gbps of HBM2 memory bandwidth. PCI Express hard and soft IP support up to 4.0 x16 at 16 GT/s per lane. Intel® Ultra Path Interconnect (Intel® UPI) hard IP with up to 20 lanes at 11.2 GT/s for direct cache coherent connection to future select Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.

Up to 16 GB of HBM2 Memory in Package

Achieve higher system integration with the largest monolithic FPGA device with 2.8 million LEs and heterogeneous 3D SiP solutions including transceivers and other advanced components such as HBM2. Other system support includes standard external memories and Intel® Optane™ memory products. Intel® Stratix® 10 SoC FPGA comes packed with a 64 bit quad-core ARM* Cortex-A53 up to 1.35 GHz with hardened peripherals and high bandwidth interfaces directly to FPGA fabric at 30 Gbps.

Up to 143 INT8 TOPS or 286 INT4 TOPS2 for High Throughput AI Applications

The Intel® Stratix® 10 NX FPGA embeds a new type of AI-optimized block called the AI Tensor Block. The AI Tensor Block is tuned for the common matrix-matrix or vector-matrix multiplications used in AI computations, with capabilities designed to work efficiently for both small and large matrix sizes. A single AI Tensor Block achieves 143 INT8 TOPS or 286 INT4 TOPS.2

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Intel® Hyperflex™ FPGA Architecture

To address the challenges presented by next-generation systems, Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGA and SoC FPGA feature the new Intel® Hyperflex™ FPGA Architecture, which delivers 2X the clock frequency performance and up to 70% lower power compared to previous-generation, high-end FPGA.1

Heterogeneous 3D Integration

Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGA and SoC FPGA leverage heterogeneous 3D System-in-Package (SiP) technology to integrate a monolithic FPGA core fabric with 3D SiP transceiver tiles and other advanced components in a single package.

Transceivers

Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGA and SoC FPGA deliver a new era of transceiver technology with the introduction of innovative heterogeneous 3D System-in-Package (SiP) transceivers.

External Memory Interfaces

Intel® Stratix® 10 devices provide memory interface support, including serial, parallel interfaces, and selected Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory.

AI Tensor Blocks

The Intel® Stratix® 10 NX FPGA embeds a new type of AI-optimized block called the AI Tensor Block. The AI Tensor Block is tuned for the common matrix-matrix or vector-matrix multiplications used in AI computations, with capabilities designed to work efficiently for both small and large matrix sizes. A single AI Tensor Block achieves up to 15X more INT82 throughput than standard Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGA DSP Block.

DSP

With Intel® Stratix® 10 devices, digital signal processing (DSP) designs can achieve up to 8.6 Tera floating point operations per second (TFLOPS) of IEEE 754 single-precision floating-point operations.

Interconnect to CPUs, ASICs, and ASSPs

Intel® Stratix® 10 DX devices accelerate applications used in Data Center, Networking, Cloud Computing, and Test & Measurement markets through hard and soft intellectual property blocks supporting both UPI and PCIe 4.0 interfaces.

Hard Processor System

Building on Intel's leadership in SoCs, Intel® Stratix® 10 SoC FPGA includes a next-generation hard processor system (HPS) to deliver the industry's highest performance and most power-efficient SoCs.

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Intel® Stratix® 10 SX SoC FPGA Benefits

Achieve High Levels of System Integration

Intel® Stratix® 10 SoC FPGA empowers the USR in the ARM* ecosystem. ARM's next-generation 64-bit architecture (ARMv8) enables hardware virtualization, system management and monitoring capabilities, and acceleration pre-processing. The ARM* Cortex-A53* processor supports 32-bit execution mode and board support packages for popular operating systems including Linux*, Wind River’s VxWorks*, Micrium’s uC/OS-II* and uC/OS-III*, and more.

Achieve High Designer Productivity with Optimized FPGA and SoC FPGA Design Software

New engine optimized for multi-million logic elements (LE) FPGA designs providing significant reduction in design iterations. Intel® Stratix® 10 SoC FPGA Virtual Platform enables early software development and verification, and C-based design entry using the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™, offering a design environment that is easy to implement on SoC FPGA. Heterogeneous debug, profiling, and whole chip visualization with Intel SoC FPGA Embedded Development Suite (EDS) featuring the ARM* Development Studio 5* (DS-5*) Intel SoC FPGA Edition Toolkit.

Intel® Stratix® 10 SoC FPGA Block Diagram

HPS: Quad-core ARM* Cortex*-A53 Hard Processor System
SDM: Secure Device Manager
EMIB: Embedded Multi-Die Interconnect Bridge

Feature

Description

Processor

Quad-core ARM* Cortex*–A53 MPCore* processor cluster up to 1.5 GHz

Coprocessors

Vector floating-point unit (VFPU) single and double precision, ARM* Neon* media processing engine for each processor

Level 1 Cache

32 KB L1 instruction cache with parity, 32 KB L1 data cache with error correction code (ECC)

Level 2 Cache

1 MB KB shared L2 cache with ECC

On-Chip Memory

256 KB on-chip RAM

System Memory Management Unit

System Memory Management Unit enables a unified memory model and extends hardware virtualization into peripherals implemented in the FPGA fabric

Cache Coherency Unit

Provides one-way (I/O) coherency that allows a CCU master to view the coherent memory of the ARM* Cortex*–A53 MPCore* CPUs

Direct Memory Access (DMA) Controller

8-channel direct memory access (DMA)

Ethernet Media Access Controller (EMAC)

3X 10/100/1000 EMAC with integrated DMA

USB On-The-Go Controller (OTG)

2X USB OTG with integrated DMA

UART Controller

2X UART 16550 compatible

Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) Controller

4X SPI

I2C Controller

5X I2C

SD/SDIO/MMC Controller

1X eMMC 4.5 with DMA and CE-ATA support

NAND Flash Controller

1X ONFI 1.0 or later 8 and 16-bit support

General-Purpose I/O (GPIO)

Maximum 48 software-programmable GPIO
Timers 4X general-purpose timers, 4X watchdog timers
System Manager Contains memory-mapped control and status registers and logic to control system-level functions and other HPS modules
Reset Manager Resets signals based on reset requests from sources in the HPS and FPGA fabric, and software writing to the module reset control registers
Clock Manager Provides software-programmable clock control to configure all clocks generated in the HPS
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Applications

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ASIC Prototyping

Higher productivity by reducing design partitioning complexity using monolithic FPGA fabric.

Cyber Security

fMAX over 900 MHz allows monitoring of all supported protocols at line rates.

Data Center Acceleration

UPI for direct coherent connection to future select Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor and PCIe Gen4 x16 along with Intel® Hyperflex™ FPGA Architecture, configurable DSP engines, and AI Tensor Blocks to enable breakthrough in computational throughput.

Wireline

fMAX over 700 MHz using the Intel® Hyperflex™ FPGA Architecture enabling 400G Ethernet.

Radar

Up to 8.6 TFLOPS of IEEE 754 compliant single-precision floating-point performance delivers GPU class performance at a fraction of the power.

OTN/Data Center Interconnect

Heterogeneous 3D System-in-Package (SiP) integration of transceiver tiles delivers 30G backplane support with a path to 57.8 Gbps and 28.9 Gbps.

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Intel® Stratix® 10 Device Demo Videos

Introduction to Intel® Stratix® 10 DX FPGA

Introducing Intel® Stratix® 10 DX FPGA for your high bandwidth and evolving data center requirements. It is the first FPGA to support Intel® Ultra Path Interconnect (Intel® UPI), PCIe 4.0 x16 and select Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory DIMMs.

Intel® Stratix® 10 DX Features Demo

Join Intel Engineers in the lab to learn more about the three main new features in the Intel® Stratix® 10 DX FPGA: Intel® Ultra Path Interconnect (Intel® UPI), PCIe 4.0 x16 and Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory DIMMs.

58G PAM-4 Transceivers

Applications needing massive I/O throughput such as Muxponder and Transponder systems, Optical Switches, and 5G networks need the performance of 58G PAM-4 transceiver I/O's, offered in Intel® Stratix® 10 TX FPGA.

PCIe 3.0 DMA to DDR4 SDRA

Intel® Stratix® 10 devices, which include PCIe and memory controller hard IP blocks, when combined with Avalon® Memory Mapped and direct memory access functions, create a high-performance reference design.

28G Transceivers

In this video, we look at the unique transceiver architecture of Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGA. See H-Tile transceivers that are connected via Intel's EMIB technology operating at 28 Gbps backplane performance.

Intel® Hyperflex™ FPGA Architecture

Intel® Hyperflex™ FPGA Architecture in Intel® Stratix® 10 devices provide 2X the fMAX performance. This video shows a side-by-side comparison of an original design and a Hyper-Optimized design.

PCIe 3.0 DMA to DDR4 SDRAM

Intel® Stratix® 10 devices, which include PCI Express* (PCIe*) and memory controller hard intellectual property (IP) blocks, combined with Avalon® memory-mapped interface and direct memory access (DMA) functions to create a high-performance reference design.

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Product and Performance Information

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Comparison based on Stratix® V vs. Intel® Stratix® 10 using Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro 16.1 Early Beta. Stratix® V Designs were optimized using 3 step optimization process of Hyper-Retiming, Hyper-Pipelining, and Hyper-Optimization in order to utilize Intel® Stratix® 10 architecture enhancements of distributed registers in core fabric. Designs were analyzed using Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Fast Forward Compile performance exploration tool. For more details, refer to Intel® Hyperflex™ FPGA Architecture Overview White Paper: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/programmable/us/en/pdfs/literature/wp/wp-01220-hyperflex-architecture-fpga-socs.pdf. Actual performance users will achieve varies based on level of design optimization applied. Tests measure performance of components on a particular test, in specific systems. Differences in hardware, software, or configuration will affect actual performance. Consult other sources of information to evaluate performance as you consider your purchase. For more complete information about performance and benchmark results, visit www.intel.com/benchmarks.

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Based on internal Intel estimates.
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