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Electronic Components & Devices

FPGAs consume as little as 0.18 W at 25-

StratixÂ-® II FPGAs feature total I/O pin capacitance from 3.3-6.1 pF. Maximum operating frequencies include 350-400 MHz for M-RAM and M4K blocks, 350-420 MHz for DSP block, and 370-380 MHz for M512 block. LVDS provides signaling speeds of 800-1,040 Mbps. Quartus II v4.2 development software provides tools for generation of toggle information from simulation vectors, automatic model...

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Electrical Equipment & Systems

Structured ASIC Solution has fine-grained architecture.

Manufactured on TSMC's 90 nm process, HardCopyÂ-® II devices feature FPGA front-end design methodology. Interface circuitry supports external memory at 233 MHz for SDRAM and 250 MHz for RLDRAM II. Devices deliver up to 2.2 million ASIC gates, 8.8 million bits of RAM, and over 350 MHz system performance. They support 1 Gbps differential I/O as well as high-speed interfaces such as 10-Gigabit...

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Agricultural & Farming Products

Programmable Logic Devices suit general-purpose applications.

MAXÂ-® II EPM240 CPLD has 240 logic elements and is suited for volume-driven applications, while Model EPM240G features 1.8 V dynamic power consumption. Built on 0.18-micron flash-based process technology, instant-on and non-volatile devices offer up to 272 user I/O pins and board-management features such as user flash memory. They are suited for control-path applications in consumer,...

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Software

Software designs FPGAs and CPLDs.

QuartusÂ-® II v4.2 includes PowerPlay technology, which offers detailed estimates of static and dynamic power, and assists user from design conception through implementation. During implementation phase, designer can refine power estimations by using power analyzer tool, which combines vectorless power analysis algorithm with place-and-route results. Tools for analyzing and controlling clock...

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Agricultural & Farming Products

Development Kits suit DSP and embedded system designs.

Able to facilitate designs using Stratix II high-density FPGAs, development kits include high-speed interface kit, DSP kit, and embedded design kit. Each includes Stratix II development board, 16 Mbyte flash memory, CD with documentation and reference designs, power supply, USB Blaster download cable, and other cables. Also available, MAXÂ-® II Development Kit helps build general-purpose,...

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Software

Software speeds development of FPGAs.

QuartusÂ-® II v4.1 provides suite of optimization and verification functions to shorten development cycles. Timing and resource optimization advisors guide user in real-time during design cycle on how and when to use features to maximum effect. What-if experiments can be done in-system without recompiling design or reconfiguring FPGA. Map viewer allows user to cross-probe from timing analyzer...

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Computer Hardware & Peripherals

Embedded Processor is available in 3 versions.

NiosÂ-® II family consists of three 32-bit RISC embedded soft-core processors that deliver more than 200 DMIPS: one for maximum system performance, one optimized for minimum logic usage, and one in-between. All cores are 100 percent code compatible and include software development suite with compiler, IDE, JTAG debugger, MicroC/OS-II RTOS, and TCP/IP stack. Developers can also add up to 256...

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Computer Hardware & Peripherals

FPGA-Based Boards suit SDRAM, SRAM, and RLDRAM II devices.

Using StratixÂ-® FPGAs to implement high-speed memory interfaces, reference platforms provide set of hardware implementation guidelines including layout, termination recommendations, and signal integrity analysis. RLDRAM II/DDR Stratix memory board features separate I/O and common I/O RLDRAM II devices, along with 4 DDR SDRAM devices and 1 DDR module. DDR2/QDRII Stratix board features 2 DDR2...

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