Altera Corporation is one of the world’s leading FPGA manufacturers and suppliers. The company’s FPGA devices are used in automotive, wireless, computing, medical, aerospace and other applications by top manufacturers worldwide. Proactive Components, Inc. brings to you the widest range of Altera FPGAs as part of our 15 million plus inventory of electronic parts and components.

FPGAs (or Field Programmable Gate Arrays) are integrated circuits that contain programmable elements called logic blocks, which can be programmed to perform specific logic tasks by the end user/designer. The logic blocks also contain memory elements. The advantage of FPGAs is that they offer greater flexibility to end users. Also they have a less complicated design cycle, resulting in faster time to market and as well as reduction in overall system costs. FPGAs are ideal for high volume, cost sensitive applications.

Altera produces three distinct FPGA families with varied features suitable for different applications.

Altera FPGA Families

The Cyclone series comprises low cost low power FPGAs. Part number EP3C10U256I7N is a Cyclone III series FPGA stocked by Proactive Components, Inc. This component has 10320 logic elements and 645 Logic Array Blocks (LABs). The total memory is 423936bit and it has 182 programmable I/Os. Part number EP3C10U256I7N has a maximum operating frequency of 315MHz, 1.15-1.25V operating supply voltage and works well between -40 and +85 deg C.

Part numbers EP4CGX75CF23C8N and EP4CE55F23I8LN are two other Altera Cyclone series FPGAs available with us for ready shipment.

The Arria series from Altera represents mid range FPGAs. Our stock includes practically the entire Arria range including part number EP1AGX50DF1152I6N and part number EP1AGX60DF780I6N.

The former component has 50160 logic elements and 2508 LABs. The total memory of this component is 2475072bit and it has 514 I/Os. It has 8 transceivers and exhibits a data speed of 600Mbps to 3.125 Gbps.

For the latter component, the number of transceivers and data rate remains the same. However part number EP1AGX60DF780I6N has 60100 logic elements, 3005 LABs, 2528640bit memory and 350 I/Os.

Part number EP4S40G2F40I1N belongs to Altera’s Stratix family of FPGAs, which represents high end FPGAs that meet the highest bandwidth applications and offer maximum flexibility.

This component has 228000 logic elements, 9120LABs, 17133KB memory and 654 I/Os. It has 13 transceivers and offers 600Mbps to 11.3 Gbps data rate.

Proactive Components, Inc. is undoubtedly your one-stop shop for all Altera component requirements. Go through our comprehensive how to order guidelines and place your order with us today.