Arria 10 Device Family Definition
Arria 10 device family contains a combination of 20-nm process technology and architectural advances provide the following benefits:
- Performance improvement of 60% over previous generations of mid-range FPGAs and 15% higher performance than the fastest FPGA in the prior generation.
- Power efficiency attained through a comprehensive set of power-saving technologies.
- Significant reduction in die area and power consumption.
- Increase of up to two times in transceiver I/O density compared to previous generation devices while maintaining optimal signal integrity.
- You can configure up to 6 transceiver channels to run as fast as 25.8 Gbps on GT devices.
- All channels feature continuous data rate support up to the maximum rated speed.
- Wireless
- Wireline
- Broadcast
- Computing and Storage
- Medical
- Military
The Arria 10 device family is available in three variants:
- Arria 10 GX—an FPGA featuring 17.4 Gbps transceivers for short reach applications with 12.5 Gbps backplane driving capability.
- Arria 10 GT—this variant features:
- 17.4 Gbps transceivers for short reach applications with 12.5 Gbps backplane driving capability.
- 25.8 Gbps transceivers for supporting CAUI-4 and CEI-25G applications with CFP2 and CFP4 modules.
- Arria 10 SX—an SoC device integrating ARM-based HPS and FPGA featuring 17.4 Gbps transceivers for short reach applications with 16.0 Gbps backplane driving capability.
The Arria 10 family device architecture supports
- Two RAM block types:
- M20K memory blocks feature hard error correction code (ECC).
- MLABs implement single-port and dual-port memory.
- Support for remote configuration updates.
- Embedded variable-precision DSP blocks that enable precision signal processing from 18x9 to 54x54, as well as floating point arithmetic with a wide variety of modes.
- Adaptive Logic Modules (ALMs) provides enhanced 8-input ALM with four registers and hierarchical core clocking architecture.
- Device I/Os have dedicated circuitry to assist with the implementation of high-speed interfaces to external memory devices such as DDR4, DDR3, and DDR3L.
- A soft-memory controller with configurable support for RLDRAM 3, QDR IV, and QDR II+.
Arria 10 devices can be designed with high bandwidth, throughput, and low latency transcievers:
- Up to 96 transciever channels for GX devices.
- Up to 72 transciever channels for GT devices.
- 12.5 Gbps transceivers at as low as 242 mW
- 10 Gbps transceivers at as low as 168 mW
- 6 Gbps transceivers at as low as 117 mW
Arria 10 transceivers support various data rates according to application:
- Chip-to-chip and chip-to-module applications—from 125 Mbps up to 25.8 Gbps
- Long reach and backplane applications—from 125 Mbps up to 12.5 Gbps with advanced adaptive equalization
- Critical power sensitive applications—from 125 Mbps up to 11.3 Gbps using lower power modes
- PCI Express® Gen3 (x1, x2, x4, or x8)
- PCI Express® Gen2 (x1, x2, x4, or x8)
- PCI Express® Gen1 (x1, x2, x4, or x8)
The Arria 10 system-on-a-chip (SOC) contains a second generation hard processor system (HPS) with an integrated ARM® Cortex™ A9 MPCore processor. This design provides tight integration of a dual-core processor, hard IP, and an FPGA. All members of the device family can operate at a peak bandwidth of 128 Gbps with integrated data coherency between the processor and the FPGA fabric.