Intel Broadens FPGA Range with New Products Across All Six FPGA Platforms

Intel’s Programmable Options Group (PSG) is broadening its FPGA product vary with the introduction of six new programmable platforms geared toward several types of prospects and workloads. Along with a brand new sub-family of Agilex 5-series choices, Intel is launching its all-new Agilex 3 sequence choices together with new Agilex.

The spotlight of at this time’s announcement is the Intel Agilex 3 FPGA sequence of energy and cost-optimized FPGAs in compact type components. The household consists of the Agilex 3 B-series FPGAs that boast the next I/O density in compact type components (in comparison with Intel Max 10 FPGAs) and are optimized for board and system administration, together with server platform administration functions. 

On the opposite facet of the Agilex 3 spectrum is the C-series FPGAs which can be engineered to supply supplementary capabilities, making them apt for a broad spectrum of advanced programmable logic gadgets (CPLD) and FPGA functions throughout varied industries. Intel says that its Agilex 3-series FPGAs can be out there quickly with out disclosing when precisely.

One other noteworthy introduction is the Intel Agilex 5 FPGA E-series primarily based on the two^nd Technology Hyperflex FPGA structure and tailor-made for embedded edge functions and due to this fact that includes excessive efficiency effectivity. Intel produces these FPGAs in home utilizing its Intel 7 manufacturing know-how (previously often known as 10 nm Enhanced SuperFin), which is why it says that these elements ship 1.6 instances greater efficiency per watt in comparison with competing FPGAs made on a 16 nm-class course of know-how (probably referring to Xilinx’s FPGAs constructed on this course of node). Moreover, this FPGA sequence integrates an AI tensor block, a characteristic beforehand unique to Intel’s premium programmable elements, positioning it as an answer for edge AI duties. Intel will begin sampling Agilex 5 E-series elements with design software program in Q1 2024. A system simulator for these FPGAs can be out there within the cloud in late 2024.

Intel additionally stated that it had begun shipments of its Intel Agilex 7 FPGAs with the R-Tile chiplet. These FPGAs supply a PCIe 5.0 interface with the CXL protocol on prime that permit to rapidly deploy programmable accelerators for particular duties that may profit from greater bandwidth and decrease latencies.

Along with revealing new FPGAs, Intel additionally stated that the primary industrial product primarily based on its F2000X infrastructure processing unit platform is now delivery. The half is the Napatech F2070X IPU that has two 100 GbE ports and is powered by the Agilex AGFC023 FPGA and an Intel Xeon D SoC.

Rounding off the brand new introductions is the Nios V/c compact microcontroller, which is a soft-core IP, primarily based on the RISC-V structure, which might be programmed utilizing the corporate’s Quartus Prime Professional software program.