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1. Overview of the Agilex™ 7 FPGAs and SoCs
2. Agilex™ 7 FPGAs and SoCs Family Plan
3. Second Generation Hyperflex® Core Architecture
4. Adaptive Logic Module in Agilex™ 7 FPGAs and SoCs
5. Internal Embedded Memory in Agilex™ 7 FPGAs and SoCs
6. Variable-Precision DSP in Agilex™ 7 FPGAs and SoCs
7. Core Clock Network in Agilex™ 7 FPGAs and SoCs
8. General Purpose I/Os in Agilex™ 7 FPGAs and SoCs
9. I/O PLLs in Agilex™ 7 FPGAs and SoCs
10. External Memory Interface in Agilex™ 7 FPGAs and SoCs
11. Hard Processor System in Agilex™ 7 SoCs
12. Heterogeneous 3D SiP Transceivers in Agilex™ 7 FPGAs and SoCs
13. Heterogeneous 3D Stacked HBM2E DRAM Memory in Agilex™ 7 FPGAs and SoCs M-Series
14. High-Performance Crypto Blocks in Agilex™ 7 FPGAs and SoCs F-Series and I-Series
15. Configuration via Protocol Using PCIe* for Agilex™ 7 FPGAs and SoCs
16. Device Configuration and the SDM in Agilex™ 7 FPGAs and SoCs
17. Partial and Dynamic Configuration of Agilex™ 7 FPGAs and SoCs
18. Device Security for Agilex™ 7 FPGAs and SoCs
19. SEU Error Detection and Correction in Agilex™ 7 FPGAs and SoCs
20. Power Management for Agilex™ 7 FPGAs and SoCs
21. Software and Tools for Agilex™ 7 FPGAs and SoCs
22. Revision History for the Agilex™ 7 FPGAs and SoCs Device Overview
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1.6. Intel® Hyperflex™ Core Architecture
Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs and SoCs are based on a core fabric featuring the second generation Intel® Hyperflex™ core architecture. The second generation Intel® Hyperflex™ core architecture delivers on average 50% higher clock frequency performance or up to 40% lower power compared to previous generation of high-end Intel FPGAs.
Along with this performance breakthrough, the Intel® Hyperflex™ core architecture delivers a number of advantages including:
- Higher Throughput: Delivers on average 50% higher core clock frequency performance of designs in previous generation high-end FPGAs to obtain throughput breakthroughs
- Improved Power Efficiency: Uses reduced IP size enabled by Intel® Hyperflex™ architecture to consolidate designs which previously spanned multiple devices into a single device, thereby reducing power by up to 40% versus previous generation devices
- Greater Design Functionality: Uses faster clock frequency to reduce bus widths and reduce IP size, freeing up additional FPGA resources to add greater functionality
- Increased Designer Productivity: Boosts performance with less routing congestion and fewer design iterations using Hyper-Aware design tools, obtaining greater timing margin for more rapid timing closure
In addition to the traditional user registers found in the Adaptive Logic Modules (ALMs), the Intel® Hyperflex™ core architecture introduces additional bypassable registers distributed throughout the fabric of the FPGA. These additional registers, called Hyper-Registers are available on every interconnect routing segment and at the inputs of all functional blocks. In the second generation Intel® Hyperflex™ core architecture, the number of registers have been optimized to improve both timing closure time and fabric area.
Figure 4. Bypassable Hyper Register
The Hyper-Registers enable the following key design techniques to achieve on average 45% core performance increases:
- Fine grain Hyper-Retiming to eliminate critical paths
- Zero latency Hyper-Pipelining to eliminate routing delays
- Flexible Hyper-Optimization for best-in-class performance
By implementing these techniques in your design, the Hyper-Aware design tools automatically make use of the Hyper-Registers to achieve maximum core clock frequency.
Figure 5. Intel® Hyperflex™ Core Architecture