Product category: Programmable Logic Devices
News Release from: Altera Europe | Subject: Cyclone III
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 20 March 2007
FPGAs take on power- and cost-sensitive
tasks
The industry's first 65nm low-cost FPGAs consume 75% less power than competing devices.
Altera Corp has announced the immediate availability of the Cyclone III family, the industry's first 65nm low-cost FPGAs Cyclone III FPGAs consume 75% less power than competing FPGAs and deliver 5K to 120K logic elements (LEs), up to 4Mbit of memory and up to 288 digital signal processing (DSP) multipliers
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 26 Mar 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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At 20% lower cost per logic element than the previous generation, the Cyclone III family enables designers to use FPGAs in more cost-sensitive applications than previously possible.
"We have received our first Cyclone III devices and are adopting them for our high-performance embedded motor control programs", said Eric Wildi, Chief Electronics Officer at Emerson Climate Technologies.
"The compelling architecture innovations in Cyclone III FPGAs, such as performance and abundant memory, enable us to cost-effectively deliver greater functionality compared with conventional microcontroller and DSP solutions".
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