Stratix Architecture
Altera Corporation introduced the Stratix™ device family, the industry's largest and fastest programmable logic devices (PLD).Built on a new routing architecture, the Stratix devices yield an unprecedented 40 percent increase in performance from Altera's APEX™ II devices, making the new device family the industry's fastest PLDs. Additionally, with the inclusion of dedicated DSP functionality, the Stratix devices address DSP and computationally complex applications up to twice as fast as any other PLD in the industry.
Silicon efficiency was achieved in all areas including the MultiTrack™ routing, logic elements, embedded memory and I/O structures. All told, compared to previous generations, the Stratix architecture achieves die size reductions of more than 35 percent while featuring eight times more RAM bits as well as dedicated DSP functionality, on-chip termination resistors and advanced system clock management features
April.2002
Altera
