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Altera Ships 18 Channel CDR Mercury Device for High Speed Interfaces
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1, 2001--Altera
Corporation (Nasdaq:ALTR) today began providing designers with 18,
1.25 Gbps clock data recovery (CDR) channels through the availability
of the newest device in the Mercury(TM) programmable ASSP family. The
new Mercury EP1M350 device provides more high-speed CDR channels than
any other commercially available device, allowing for implementation
of a variety of high-speed serial backplane, chip-to-chip
communication, and line side applications.
``With 18 channels of CDR transceiver support, the Mercury EP1M350
device provides the flexibility and scalability that customers need in
their high-speed designs,'' said Tim Colleran, vice president of
product marketing at Altera. ``Implementation of high-speed serial
backplane or Gigabit Ethernet systems can now benefit from a complete
system-on-a-programmable-chip solution.''
The EP1M350 device is Altera's first all-copper Mercury device.
The 0.15-micron, all-layer-copper process is a critical factor in
ensuring that the logic core runs at the necessary speeds to support
the tremendous bandwidth supplied by Mercury's CDR capability. Version
1.1 of Altera's Quartus® II development software further boosts the
core logic performance by automatically placing timing-critical
signals onto priority interconnect resources. In combination with
these core performance enhancements, Mercury contains distributed
multiplier technology to produce the programmable logic industry's
highest speed multiplier. A 16x16 multiplier utilizing this
distributed technology runs at speeds in excess of 300 MHz when
pipelined, and 150 MHz in non-pipelined mode. Additionally the
quad-port RAM-capable embedded system blocks (ESBs) enhance core
performance to even faster speeds.
About the EP1M350 Device
The EP1M350 device provides 18 channels of 1.25 Gbps CDR
transceiver support for a maximum CDR bandwidth of 45 Gbps, 14,400
logic elements, and over 110,00 RAM bits, in a compact 780-pin
FineLine BGA(TM) package. Its CDR transceivers enable support for
high-speed serial backplane applications or for high data rate
communication standards such as Gigabit Ethernet. For
source-synchronous differential signaling, the EP1M350 device offers
two solutions: True-LVDS(TM) for high-speed channels and dedicated
serializer/deserializers, and Flexible-LVDS(TM) for a fully scalable,
100-channel flexible solution. The EP1M350 device also provides the
ability to interface to advanced memories such as DDR SDRAMs, ZBT
SRAMs, and QDR SRAMs. The EP1M350 device features a flexible quad-port
RAM mode in the enhanced embedded system blocks (ESBs) to enable
complex memory-intensive functions.
Availability
The Mercury EP1M350 device is now shipping with prototype pricing
of $900. Pricing in 2002 will be $280 for high-volume quantities.
Altera's Quartus II development software currently supports all
Mercury products.
About Altera
Altera Corporation, The Programmable Solutions Company®, was
founded in 1983 and is a leading supplier of programmable logic
devices (PLDs). Altera's CMOS-based PLDs are user-programmable
semiconductor chips that enhance flexibility and reduce time-to-market
for companies in the communications, computer peripheral, and
industrial markets. By using high performance devices, software
development tools, and sophisticated intellectual property cores,
system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) solutions can be created with
embedded processors, memory, and other complex logic together on a
single PLD. Altera common stock is traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market
under the symbol ALTR. More information on Altera is available on the
Internet at http://www.altera.com.
Note to Editors: Altera, The Programmable Solutions Company, the
stylized Altera logo, specific device designations and all other words
that are identified as trademarks and/or service marks are, unless
noted otherwise, the trademarks and service marks of Altera
Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. All other product or
service names are the property of their respective holders.
Contact:
Altera Corporation
Bruce Fienberg, 408/544-7866
bfienber@altera.com
or
PR21
Susannah Stanford, 415/369-8105
susannah.stanford@pr21.com
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