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Offline AiyTopic starter

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Small footprints with 'many' min 12G tranceivers
« on: November 01, 2024, 07:49:59 pm »
Hi Forum,

I have a quandary selecting an FPGA for a build.
I'd like to leverage the advantages of modern JESD204 ADCs (5GSPS+ like for example the TI ADC08DJ5200RF ) together with an FPGA in a design, i.e. high speed serial lanes (12G+) with at least 8 lanes receive.
I don't need 2000 GPIO for the LEDs in my design.. maybe I'd like to hook up 1 or 2 DDR IC for storage, and a USB 2.0 FTDI JTAG / high speed data uplink is necessary for what i'd like to do. But a small footprint FPGA with a 8+ 12G tranceivers is what I need.
From what I've gathered on my lonesome, the alternatives with 8+ receiver pairs in 2024 Q4 are:
  • AMD Artix Ultrascale+ AU10P (or up)
  • AMD Kintex (XC7K325T or up)
  • AMD Kintex Ultrascale
  • AMD Kintex Ultrascale+
  • Intel Agilex 5
  • Microchip PolarFire (725 ball or up)
  • ...

Anybody else got any any more resonable alternatives?

I think that the AMD/Xilinx tools and docs are far superior to the alternatives, but I just wanted to ask if anyone have alternatives that I don't know of.
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Best regards,
 

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Re: Small footprints with 'many' min 12G tranceivers
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2024, 08:37:03 pm »
Kintex-7 has only 10G transceivers as far as I remember. New Spartan US+ are supposed to have 16.3 Gb/s transceivers too - but they are not out yet. Also watch out for package/speed grades - some packages/speed grades have lower limits on transceivers, for example the same silicon of Artix US+ can have max line speed of 16.375 Gb/s or 12.5 Gb/s depending on package.

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Re: Small footprints with 'many' min 12G tranceivers
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2024, 12:29:03 am »
PolarFire FPGA MPF100T-FCG484E has 8x 12.7Gbps transceiver lanes.
 

Offline glenenglish

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Re: Small footprints with 'many' min 12G tranceivers
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2024, 07:53:41 pm »
Easy. Use Efinix Titanium. and quite affordable, tools are OK. big bang for your buck.

Or, Spartan Ultrascale, next year.. or Xilinx Artix Ultrascale (and is shipping AU7P) ,  or Lattice...

Microchip ?! ROFL. where is is polarfire2 LOL.

what footprint size ? / Budget ? / # LEs ?


 


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