EP2C8F256CXN of Altera Cyclone II FPGA

EP2C8F256CXN FPGAs Overview

Following the immensely successful first-generation Cyclone device family, Altera Cyclone II FPGAs extend the low-cost FPGA density range to 68,416 logic elements (LEs) and provide up to 622 usable I/O pins and up to 1.1 Mbits of embedded memory. Cyclone II EP2C8F256CXN FPGAs are manufactured on 300-mm wafers using TSMC's 90-nm low-k dielectric process to ensure rapid availability and low cost. By minimizing silicon area, Cyclone II devices can support complex digital systems on a single chip at a cost that rivals that of ASICs. Unlike other FPGA vendors who compromise power consumption and performance for low-cost, Altera’s latest generation of low-cost FPGAs—Cyclone II FPGAs, offer 60% higher performance and half the power consumption of competing 90-nm FPGAs. The low cost and optimized feature set of Cyclone II EP2C8F256CXN FPGAs make them ideal solutions for a wide array of automotive, consumer, communications, video processing, test and measurement, and other end-market solutions.

Features

The Cyclone II device family offers the following features:

■ High-density architecture with 4,608 to 68,416 LEs

● M4K embedded memory blocks

● Up to 1.1 Mbits of RAM available without reducing available logic

● 4,096 memory bits per block (4,608 bits per block including 512 parity bits)

● Variable port configurations of ×1, ×2, ×4, ×8, ×9, ×16, ×18, ×32, and ×36

● True dual-port (one read and one write, two reads, or two writes) operation for ×1, ×2, ×4, ×8, ×9, ×16, and ×18 modes

● Byte enables for data input masking during writes

● Up to 260-MHz operation

■ Embedded multipliers

● Up to 150 18- × 18-bit multipliers are each configurable as two independent 9- × 9-bit multipliers with up to 250-MHz performance

● Optional input and output registers

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