For high volume, budget-conscious applications, Altera Cyclone® II 90nm FPGAs offer a customer-defined feature set and are designed from the ground up to be inexpensive. At a price comparable to ASICs, Cyclone II FPGAs offer high performance and low power consumption. Cyclone II FPGAs have up to 622 useable I/O pins and up to 1.1Mbits of integrated memory, bringing the low-cost FPGA density range to 68,416 Logic Elements (LEs).
To ensure quick availability and cheap cost, these FPGAs are produced on 300mm wafers utilizing TSMC's 90nm low-k dielectric technology. Cyclone II devices can enable complex digital systems on a single chip at a cost comparable to ASICs by reducing silicon area. Compared to competitor 90nm FPGAs, Altera Cyclone II FPGAs provide a 60% increase in performance and a 50% reduction in power usage. Cyclone II FPGAs are the best options for a wide range of automotive, consumer, communications, video processing, test and measurement, and other end-market solutions due to their low cost and optimized feature set.
