FPGAs and FPGA-based boards and systems

To process a massive volume of data faster, you need exceptional speed. To anticipate technological leaps, you need reprogrammability and adaptability. FPGA is the solution.

What is an FPGA ?

 FPGA = Field Programmable Gate Array.
An FPGA is a standard integrated circuit made up of simple logic gates and more complex functions.
It is reprogrammable by each user for its own application.
FPGAs are used to offer high-capacity logic and memory storage, while maintaining a module size suitable for embedded solutions.

 

What are the benefits of using an FPGA?

An FPGA has very specific technical characteristics that enable them to execute certain types of algorithms up to 1000 times faster than traditional software solutions. The benefits of using this technology are significant:

→ Real-time high-volume parallel processing for critical applications such as medical, defense and security
→ Low-latency architecture, ideal for trading
→ Highly adaptable, with many IOs capabilities for instrumentation and industrial applications
→ Flexibility, scalability and fast time-to-market
→ Limitless reprogramming: during design, during the PCB assembly process, during implementation by the end user

Intel® FPGAs

REFLEX CES offers a wide variety of Intel® FPGA-based boards:

 

  • Intel® Arria® 10

Intel® Arria® 10 FPGAs and SoCs use up to 40% less power than previous generation FPGAs and SoCs and feature the industry’s only hard floating-point digital signal processing (DSP) blocks.

This semiconductor also saves board space with integration (with twice the density of the previous generation), increases productivity, and decreases time to market.

 

  • Intel® Stratix® 10

Stratix® 10 is one of the best-performing and latest FPGA families developed by Intel®. These devices are optimized for FPGA applications that require high transceiver bandwidth and core fabric performance.

Delivering an unprecedented 2X core performance and the highest level of system integration, the Intel® Stratix® 10 microprocessor is uniquely positioned to address next-generation, high-performance systems in the most demanding applications.

 

  • Intel® Agilex™

Intel® Agilex™ SoC I-Series and Intel® Agilex™ SoC F-Series FPGAs are part of the Agilex™ SoC family.

The Intel® Agilex™ I-Series SoC FPGA is optimized for bandwidth-intensive applications that require a high-performance processor interface, supported by the CXL™ standard interface (an open standard interconnect protocol for high-speed CPU-to-device and CPU-to-memory), the PCIe Gen5 x16 interface, and transceiver tiles with data rates up to 116 Gbps. It delivers double the fabric performance per watt. Intel® Agilex™ I-Series SoC FPGA devices also integrate the quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor to provide high system integration.

The Intel® Agilex™ F-Series devices are general purpose FPGAs built on Intel 10 nm SuperFin process technology. They are ideal for a wide range of applications across many markets.

 

Our Intel® FPGAs-based modules are developed with an FPGA SoC. The SoC is an integrated circuit inside the FPGA, most often a CPU (central processing unit) processor, that allows the FPGA to better control the board.

 

Xilinx ® FPGAs

REFLEX CES offers a wide variety of Xilinx® FPGA-based boards:

 

  • Xilinx® Virtex® UltraScale+™

Xilinx® Virtex® UltraScale+™ FPGAs provide the highest performance and integration capabilities in a 14 nm/16 nm FinFET node. In addition, they offer the highest transceiver bandwidth, highest DSP count, and highest on-chip and in-package memory available in the UltraScale™ architecture.

Virtex® UltraScale+™ FPGAs also provide numerous power options that deliver the optimum balance between the required system performance and the smallest power envelope.

 

  • Xilinx® Zynq® Ultrascale+™

The Zynq® Ultrascale+™ FPGA is smarter and optimized for differentiation, analytics, and control, thanks to its innovative ARM® + FPGA architecture. It was chosen for its unmatched performance, as well as for its lower system power architecture.

REFLEX CES boards use an MPSoC UltraScale+™ FPGA. It provides multi-processing capabilities, as the MPSoC (microprocessor system-on-chip) is an SoC that includes multiple microprocessors. MPSoCs usually target embedded applications.

 

  • Xilinx® Versal® ACAP

Xilinx® Versal® is the latest Xilinx® product family that is based on the ACAP (Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform) heterogenous platform. The objective of this new platform is to speed up a wide range of workloads.

This highly-integrated multicore compute platform can adapt to all your needs using evolving and diverse algorithms. It is dynamically customizable at both hardware and software level to fit a wide range of applications and workloads.