Product category: Programmable Logic Devices
News Release from: Altera Europe | Subject: Cyclone
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 12 April 2004
Low-cost FPGAs claim superiority
A new benchmark analysis highlights Altera's compelling performance leadership in the low-cost FPGA market
The analysis claims that Altera Cyclone devices outperform the competition's Spartan-3 family by an average of more than 70%. Coupled with the broad availability of devices and the industry's lowest cost structure, Cyclone devices are increasingly becoming the de-facto choice for this low-cost segment of the market.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 April 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"As shown by the results of this new benchmarking analysis, based on a suite of approximately 50 customer designs, we deliver convincing performance leadership in the low-cost FPGA market", said David Greenfield, Altera's Senior Director of Product Marketing for FPGA products.
"Additionally, Cyclone devices are on distributor's shelves and available in high-volume production worldwide.
Our ability to flawlessly rollout this family on schedule and deliver a huge performance advantage has been our competitive edge".
Using Synplify 7.5.0 from Synplicity coupled into Altera Quartus II version 4.0 and Xilinx ISE version 6.2 place-and-route software, benchmark results were generated using both "least-effort" and "best-effort" tool settings representing novice and expert users.
In the "least-effort" settings, Cyclone devices outperformed Spartan-3 devices on average by more than 60%.
In the "best-effort" setting, Cyclone devices proved to be 70% faster on average.
In fact, the slowest speed Cyclone devices outperform the fastest speed grade Spartan-3 parts by nearly 30% on average.
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