Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA and SoC FPGA
Highest Performance FPGA and SoC FPGA at 20 nm1
Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA and Soc FPGA delivers more than a speed grade faster core performance and up to a 20% fMAX advantage compared to the competition, using publicly-available OpenCore designs1, and up to 40 percent lower power than previous generation FPGA and SoC FPGA. Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA and Soc FPGA delivers optimal performance, power efficiency and small form factor are ideal for a broad array of applications such as communications, data center, military, broadcast, automotive, and other FPGA midrange applications.
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Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA and SoC FPGA
Benefits
The Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA and SoC FPGA are ideal for a broad array of applications such as communications, data center, military, broadcast, automotive, and other end markets.
Up to 40% Lower Power Than Previous-Generation FPGA and SoC FPGA
- Programmable power technology–Reduce device power in lower performance circuits while also delivering highest performance where needed.
- Smart voltage ID–Operate devices to run optimum lower voltage without impacting performance.
- VCC power manager–Operate devices at multiple voltage levels for either higher performance or lower power.
- Low static power grades–Select devices with lower maximum static power.
Industry’s Only 20 nm ARM-Based SoC
- Multiple SoC choices with dual-core ARM* Cortex*-A9 MPCore* hard processor system (HPS).
- Move existing Arria® V SoC FPGA designs in 28 nm to Intel® Arria® 10 SoC with no changes to processor code.
Save Board Space with Integration
- 2X more density versus the previous generation midrange with over 1 million logic elements (LEs).
- Hard intellectual property (IP) cores: DDR4. memory controllers and PCI Express* (PCIe*) 3.0 specification.
Increase Productivity and Decrease Time to Market with the Intel® Quartus® Prime Software
- Fast compile times and advanced design environment.
- IP cores including 100G Ethernet, 100G Interlaken, and PCIe 3.0, with 2X performance and lower latency compared to previous generations.
- C-based design entry using the Intel® FPGA SDK for OpenCL™, offering a design environment that is easy to implement on FPGA.2
- System-level design environment with Platform Designer (formerly Qsys).
- DSP Builder for Intel® FPGA–A model-based DSP environment within the MATLAB*/Simulink* environment.
Benefits of Intel® Arria® 10 SoC FPGA Devices
Intel® Arria® 10 SoC FPGA: Higher System-Level Integration SoC in Production
The Intel® Arria® 10 SoC FPGA combines architectural innovations with TSMC's 20 nm process technology to deliver improvements in performance and power reduction:
- 65% higher processor performance with up to 1.5 GHz CPU operation per core.1
- 60% higher performance versus the previous generation, over 500 MHz-capable FPGA logic core performance (15% higher performance than previous SoC FPGA.1
- 4X more transceiver bandwidth versus the previous generation (2X more bandwidth versus previous high-end FPGA).1
- 4X higher system performance (2,400 Mbps DDR4 SDRAM, Hybrid Memory Cube support).1
- More than 1,500 giga floating-point operation per second (GFLOPs) and up to 50 GFLOPs per watt in a single device.1
- 40% lower power with process technology improvement and innovative techniques for power reduction.1
Designed for Productivity
Design productivity is one of the driving philosophies of the Intel® Arria® SoC FPGA architecture. The Intel® Arria® 10 SoC FPGA offers full software compatibility with previous generation Intel® SoC FPGA, a broad ecosystem of ARM software and tools, and the enhanced FPGA and DSP hardware design flow.
- Extensive ecosystem of ARM for software development.
- Intel® SoC FPGA Embedded Design Suite (SoC EDS) featuring the ARM* Development Studio 5* (DS-5*) Intel® SoC FPGA Edition.
- Board support packages are available for popular operating systems including Linux*, Wind River VxWorks, Wind River Linux, Micrium uC/OS-II and uC/OS-III, and more.
- Full software compatibility between 28 nm Cyclone® V SoC FPGA, Arria® V SoC FPGA, and Intel® Arria® 10 SoC FPGA.
- Intel® Quartus® Prime software FPGA design suite featuring:
- High-level automated design flow with Open Computing Language (OpenCL™) compiler.
- Model-based digital signal processing (DSP) hardware design with DSP Builder for Intel FPGA.
Intel® SoC FPGA Embedded Development Suite
Jump start your firmware and application software development with our Intel® SoC FPGA Embedded Development Suite (SoC EDS), a comprehensive tool suite with development tools, utility programs, run-time software, and application examples.
Ecosystem
Intel® Arria® 10 SoC FPGA is ARM* processor-based and inherits the strength of the ARM ecosystem. Intel, our ecosystem partners, and the Intel SoC FPGA user community provide a wide range of options to meet your SoC FPGA development needs. There are a number of options for operating systems, development tools, intellectual property (IP) cores, and professional services. Many are provided by ecosystem partners.
Videos
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Product and Performance Information
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