1.1. Key Features and Innovations in Agilex™ 7 FPGAs and SoCs
With the power and performance efficiency of industry-leading Intel® 10-nm SuperFin and Intel® 7 technologies, the Agilex™ 7 FPGAs and SoCs are available in several series.
| Feature and Innovation | F-Series FPGA | I-Series FPGA | M-Series FPGA |
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| Application optimization | For a wide range of applications that require optimal balance of power and performance | For high performance processor interface and bandwidth-intensive applications | For compute-intensive, high-memory bandwidth applications |
| Process technology | Intel® 10-nm SuperFin | Intel® 10-nm SuperFin | Intel® 7 |
| Architecture | Chiplet architecture | ||
| Packaging | Rectangular package and hex pattern ball array for more functionality per area | ||
| Core fabric | Second generation Hyperflex® core fabric | ||
| Logic elements | 573 thousand to 2.7 million | 1.9 million to 4 million | 3.2 million to 3.9 million |
| On-chip RAM | MLAB, M20K, and eSRAM | MLAB, M20K, and eSRAM | MLAB and M20K |
| 287 Mb | 431 Mb | 370 Mb | |
| Variable precision DSP | Industry-leading digital signal processing (DSP) support with up to 38 TFLOPS | ||
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| General purpose I/Os | 1.2 V to 1.5 V general-purpose I/O (GPIO) | 1.2 V to 1.5 V GPIO | 1.05 V to 1.3 V GPIO |
| External memory interface | Fourth generation scalable integrated hard memory controllers and PHY | ||
| 3,200 Mbps DDR4 | 3,200 Mbps DDR4 |
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| HBM2E | — | — | Yes |
| Memory NoC | — | — | Yes |
| Cryptography | High-performance hard crypto blocks1 supporting Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and SM4 encryption standards | High-performance hard crypto blocks1 supporting AES and SM4 encryption standards | SDM supports AES |
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| SDM | Dedicated secure device manager (SDM) that:
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| HPS (SoCs only) |
Hard processor system (HPS) with embedded quad-core 64-bit Arm* Cortex* -A53 up to 1.4 GHz 3 processors | ||
| Power saving | Comprehensive set of advanced power saving features that deliver up to 40% lower power compared to previous generation high-performance FPGAs | ||
1 Only available in select devices. Refer to the family plan.
2 CXL* is available only for I-Series and M-Series FPGAs with at least one R-Tile.
3 Except AGI 035 and AGI 040 devices.