Intel Stratix 10 TX Launch for Communications Markets

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Intel Stratix 10
Intel Stratix 10

The Intel Stratix line is the company’s high-end FPGA line. Intel is now fully invested in the FPGA business after its blockbuster Altera acquisition that happened before this product cycle. One of the key areas that FPGA have traditionally played in is communications infrastructure and the Intel Stratix 10 TX variant is specifically geared toward this market.

Intel Stratix 10 TX

The Intel Stratix 10 family utilizes EMIB to allow fusing heterogeneous “chiplets” into a single package. In the Stratix 10 TX case, this means fusing the traditional FPGA components such as logic elements and adaptive logic modules with high-speed 58G transceivers.

Intel Stratix 10 HyperFlex
Intel Stratix 10 HyperFlex

The 58G transceivers can operate at previous generation standards (28G and lower) speeds allowing the company to deliver backward compatibility at a lower power footprint than previous generations.

With the newer generation chips and the optical transceivers that will be released this quarter, Intel expects the Stratix 10 TX to play in a space for next-generation 5G infrastructure roll-outs where the entire infrastructure will need to focus on providing higher bandwidth and lower latencies.

Intel Stratix 10 TX in the Overall Stratix 10 Family

As one of four variants in the Intel Stratix 10 family, the TX line has is positioned specifically as having the higher-end transceivers options with its 58G transceivers.

Intel Stratix 10 Variants
Intel Stratix 10 Variants

We asked Intel, and the focus on the TX variant is telecoms. These are not intended for hyper-scale AI applications like other Stratix 10 variants as found in Microsoft Shows off Project BrainWave Persistent Inferencing from FPGA Cache.

Intel Stratix 10 TX Key Specs

Here is a spec table for the Intel Stratix 10 TX family. You can see the full spec sheet here.

TX 1650 TX 2100 TX 2500 TX 2800
Resources Logic elements (LEs)1 1,679,000 2,073,000 2,422,000 2,753,000
Adaptive logic modules (ALMs) 569,200 702,720 821,150 933,120
ALM registers 2,276,800 2,810,880 3,284,600 3,732,480
Hyper-Registers from Intel® HyperFlexTM FPGA architecture Millions of Hyper-Registers distributed throughout the monolithic FPGA fabric
Programmable clock trees synthesizable Hundreds of synthesizable clock trees
eSRAM memory blocks 2 2
eSRAM memory size (Mb) 90 90
M20K memory blocks 6,162 6,847 9,963 11,721
M20K memory size (Mb) 120 134 195 229
MLAB memory size (Mb) 9 11 13 15
Variable-precision digital signal processing (DSP) blocks 3,326 3,960 5,011 5,760
18 x 19 multipliers 6,652 7,920 10,022 11,520
Peak fixed-point performance (TMACS)2 13.3 15.8 20.0 23.0
Peak floating-point performance (TFLOPS)3 5.3 6.3 8.0 9.2
I/O and Architectural Features Secure device manager AES-256/SHA-256 bitsream encryption/authentication, physically unclonable function (PUF), ECDSA 256/384 boot code authentication, side channel attack protection
Hard processor system Quad-core 64-bit ARM* Cortex*-A53 up to 1.5 GHz with 32KB I/D cache, NEON* coprocessor, 1 MB L2 Cache, direct memory access (DMA), system memory management unit, cache coherency unit, hard memory controllers, USB 2.0 x2, 1G EMAC x3, UART x2, SPI x4, I2C x5, general purpose timers x7, watchdog timer x4
–                                                                  –                                                                               Yes                                                                                              Yes
Maximum user I/O pins 544 440 544 440 544 440 296 544 440 296
Maximum LVDS pairs 1.6 Gbps (RX or TX) 264 216 264 216 264 216 144 264 216 144
Total full duplex transceiver count 72 96 72 96 72 96 144 72 96 144
GXE transceiver count – PAM-4 (up to 56 Gbps) or NRZ
(up to 30 Gbps)
12 PAM-4
24 NRZ
36 PAM-4
72 NRZ
12 PAM-4
24 NRZ
36 PAM-4
72 NRZ
12 PAM-4
24 NRZ
36 PAM-4
72 NRZ
60 PAM-4
120 NRZ
12 PAM-4
24 NRZ
36 PAM-4
72 NRZ
60 PAM-4
120 NRZ
GXT transceiver count – NRZ (up to 28.3 Gbps) 32 16 32 16 32 16 16 32 16 16
GX transceiver count – NRZ (up to 17.4 Gbps) 16 8 16 8 16 8 8 16 8 8
PCI Express* (PCIe*) hard intellectual property (IP) blocks (Gen3 x16) 2 1 2 1 2 1 1 2 1 1
100G Ethernet MAC (no FEC) hard IP blocks 2 1 2 1 2 1 1 2 1 1
100G Ethernet MAC + FEC hard IP blocks 4 12 4 12 4 12 20 4 12 20
Memory devices supported DDR4, DDR3, DDR2, DDR, QDR II, QDR II+, RLDRAM II, RLDRAM 3, HMC, MoSys

 

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