Altera’s new Cyclone® IV FPGA device family extends the Cyclone FPGA series leadership in providing the market’s lowest-cost, lowest-power FPGAs, now with a transceiver variant. Cyclone IV devices are targeted to high-volume, cost-sensitive applications, enabling system designers to meet increasing bandwidth requirements while lowering costs.

Cyclone IV Device Family Features
The Cyclone IV device family offers the following features:
■ Low-cost, low-power FPGA fabric:
    ■ 6K to 150K logic elements
    ■ Up to 6.3 Mb of embedded memory
    ■ Up to 360 18 × 18 multipliers for DSP processing intensive applications
    ■ Protocol bridging applications for under 1.5 W total power
■ Cyclone IV GX devices offer up to eight high-speed transceivers that provide:
    ■ Data rates up to 3.125 Gbps
    ■ 8B/10B encoder/decoder
    ■ 8-bit or 10-bit physical media attachment (PMA) to physical coding sublayer (PCS) interface
    ■ Byte serializer/deserializer (SERDES)
    ■ Word aligner
    ■ Rate matching FIFO
    ■ TX bit slipper for Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI)
    ■ Electrical idle
    ■ Dynamic channel reconfiguration allowing you to change data rates andprotocols on-the-fly
    ■ Static equalization and pre-emphasis for superior signal integrity
    ■ 150 mW per channel power consumption
    ■ Flexible clocking structure to support multiple protocols in a single transceiver block
■ Cyclone IV GX devices offer dedicated hard IP for PCI Express (PIPE) (PCIe) Gen 1:
    ■ ×1, ×2, and ×4 lane configurations
    ■ End-point and root-port configurations
    ■ Up to 256-byte payload
    ■ One virtual channel
    ■ 2 KB retry buffer
    ■ 4 KB receiver (Rx) buffer
■ Cyclone IV GX devices offer a wide range of protocol support:
    ■ PCIe (PIPE) Gen 1 ×1, ×2, and ×4 (2.5 Gbps)
    ■ Gigabit Ethernet (1.25 Gbps)
    ■ CPRI (up to 3.072 Gbps)
    ■ XAUI (3.125 Gbps)
    ■ Triple rate serial digital interface (SDI) (up to 2.97 Gbps)
    ■ Serial RapidIO (3.125 Gbps)
    ■ Basic mode (up to 3.125 Gbps)
    ■ V-by-One (up to 3.0 Gbps)
    ■ DisplayPort (2.7 Gbps)
    ■ Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) (up to 3.0 Gbps)
    ■ OBSAI (up to 3.072 Gbps)
■ Up to 532 user I/Os
    ■ LVDS interfaces up to 840 Mbps transmitter (Tx), 875 Mbps Rx
    ■ Support for DDR2 SDRAM interfaces up to 200 MHz
    ■ Support for QDRII SRAM and DDR SDRAM up to 167 MHz
■ Up to eight phase-locked loops (PLLs) per device
■ Offered in commercial and industrial temperature grades