IP Megafunctions - Altera Corporation

Intellectual Proper ty

Selector Guide

March 2001

IP Building Blocks for System-on-a-Programmable-

Chip Solutions

Altera Corporation2

With programmable logic device (PLD) densities

exceeding one million gates, users are now

implementing entire digital subsystems within a single

PLD. These new levels of density create greater

opportunity for designers who are required to develop

systems with higher integration, complexity, and

functionality. Altera is the leading provider of system-

level intellectual property (IP) blocks, called

megafunctions.

The combination of Altera® megafunctions, PLDs, and

software has resulted in lower development costs and

faster time-to-market for designers, making system-on-

a-programmable-chip solutions possible. With cost-

effective and high-performance PLDs, designers have

design flexibility and system integration advantages

over application-specific standard products (ASSPs) and

application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs).

Megafunctions provide total solutions by targeting

specific application areas, providing optimized

performance and system reusability, and significantly

reducing a design’s time-to-market.

Dramatically Reduce Your Time-to-Market

Altera recommends the use of ready-made, pre-tested

functional megafunctions to augment existing hardware

description language (HDL) design methodology. When

implementing complex system architectures, these

megafunctions significantly reduce design tasks

and dramatically shorten design cycles.

Using megafunctions allows designers to focus more

time and energy on improving and differentiating their

system-level product, rather than redesigning common

off-the-shelf functions. Altera addresses this design

need with megafunctions developed through the Altera

Megafunction Partners Program (AMPPSM) and with

Altera-created MegaCore® functions.

Introduction to Altera Megafunctions

Contents

2 Introduction to Altera Megafunctions

4 Signal Processing Megafunctions

7 Communications Megafunctions

10 PCI & Other Bus Interface Megafunctions

12 IP Development Products

13 Processor & Peripheral Megafunctions

14 AMPP Partners Director y

15 Megafunctions Applications Matrix

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MegaCore Functions

MegaCore functions are developed,

pre-tested, documented, and licensed

directly by Altera. These functions

are optimized for a specific Altera

device architecture, allowing user-specified performance

goals to be met. Altera MegaCore functions aid in critical

design implementation and help reduce design tasks and

development cycles.

Altera Megafunction Partners Program

AMPP, an alliance between

Altera and IP developers,

brings the advantages of

design reuse to users of Altera PLDs. Through this

alliance, AMPP vendors develop megafunctions that are

optimized for Altera devices.

Premier AMPP Program

The Premier AMPP program

recognizes the top performing

participants in AMPP, based

on customer feedback. The

current Premier AMPP partners are PLD Applications,

Innocor Ltd., and Nova Engineering.

AMPP Stamp of Approval

The AMPP stamp of

approval is given to all

third-party IP megafunc-

tions that have been fully

optimized for Altera

device implementation and have undergone Altera’s

internal review process.

MegaWizard Plug-Ins

Altera MegaWizard® Plug-Ins allow

designers to customize associated

megafunctions with minimal effort

and then integrate them into

design flows. Designers using

megafunctions powered by a MegaWizard Plug-In save

time and money because MegaWizard Plug-Ins hide the

complexity of the function but still allow the user to

meet the system requirements.

Risk-Free OpenCore Evaluation

Altera provides the OpenCore™ evaluation

feature, which allows designers to

instantiate, compile, and simulate a

function to verify its size and perfor-

mance before making a purchase decision. The OpenCore

feature is supported by all MegaCore functions and

most AMPP functions.

MegaWizard Plug-In Feature

Visual IP Models

Visual IP models are functional simulation models of

Altera’s MegaCore functions. These models allow users

to simulate in any third-party simulation tool such as

ModelSim and VerilogXL. Visual IP models are fully

parameterizable and allow users to do a fast functional

verification of the IP function in their designs. The

Visual IP models can be found on Altera’s IP Megastore™

web site.

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Forward

Error

Correction

Encryption

Cyclic

Redundancy

Check

Mappers Numerically

Controlled

Oscillator

Equalizer

Basic Math

Functions Filters

Transforms

Signal Coding Hardware DSP Blocks

Comparator &

Shift

Registers

Modulation Antenna

Transmitter Using Signal Processing IP

Wireless and digital signal processing (DSP) engineers

face the challenge of designing high-performance com-

munications infrastructure systems quickly and with

limited resources, amid newly emerging technologies.

Altera’s signal processing IP portfolio is a complete

collection of proven, high-performance standard

functions designed to meet these design challenges in

a single Altera PLD. Each signal processing IP core has

been rigorously tested and meets the exacting require-

ments of IEEE and other communications standards-

setting bodies.

Signal processing IP functions can be downloaded

from Altera’s IP MegaStore web site

(http://www.altera.com/IPmegastore), and have a user-

friendly, intuitive, flexible environment to customize

signal processing IP to meet any system’s requirements.

Hardware Acceleration of Existing DSP

Processor Powered Designs

For DSP processor-based systems that need more power,

standard signal processing IP can be easily added into

the data path to implement computationally rigorous

routines, leaving the DSP processor for proprietary

alogrithm data processing. Adding a high-performance

PLD to address both ends of existing processes allows

DSP software engineers to leverage existing software

code, while enjoying the benefits of hardware accelera-

tion in the PLD.

With th e Excalibur™ embedded processor solutions, DSP

software engineers benefit from designing with the

flexibility of high-level C code combined with the

high performance of the PLD.

Signal Processing Megafunctions

Signal Processing IP Solution Signal Processing IP Solution

Convolutional

Encoder

Reed-Solomon

Encoder DSP

Processor &

Memory

FIR Filter

Complete SOPC: Signal Processing IP & Excalibur Solutions

Signal Processing IP & Excalibur Solution

parallel, these routines offer many times the

performance of a DSP processor by executing

hundreds of instructions simultaneously.

Applications that especially benefit from this

type of performance increase include forward

error cor rection (FEC), modulation/demodula-

tion, and encryption.

Time-to-Market

Signal processing IP can dramatically improve

time-to-market in applications such as third-

generation wireless, IEEE 802.11 and dense

wave division multiplexing. A communica-

tions system typically makes 50% of its profit

in the first six months of production, until

competition enters and drives down prices.

ASIC imp lemen tation s provide the same performance as

functions implemented in programmable logic, but

because their development lead times are one year from

design start, no time-to-market advantage exists.

Flexibility

System specification changes, bug fixes, or additional

customer requirements can all obsolete an expensive

ASIC. With programmable logic, systems can be upgraded

in the field, eliminating costly recalls and lost sales.

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Signal Processing IP Advantages

Programmable logic with signal processing IP offers

compelling advantages over DSP processors.

Performance

Programmable logic can be thought of as an array of

elements, each of which can be configured as a complex

processor routine. These processor routines can be serially

strung together the same way a DSP processor would

execute them, or they can be connected in par allel . In

Flexibility

Performance

ASICs & ASSPs

Programmable DSP

Processors Signal Processing IP

& Excalibur Solutions

Flexiblity and Performance Comparison

Traditional DSP Processor

Serial Operation Programmable Logic Device

Parallel Operation

Sequential (Serial) Operation Parallel Operation

1 ClockN Clocks

DSP Engine

Memory

Signal Processing IP Advantage

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turbo coding are examples of drop-in IP cores used in

most wireless communication systems today. FIR/IIR

filters and modulation IP functions provide the basic

building blocks for systems such as microwave multi-

point distribution system (MMDS) to third generation

cellular mobile basestations.

FUNCTION DESCRIPTION SOURCE PRODUCT FAMILY

Amphion

Nova Engineering

HammerCores by Altera

Frontier Design

Amphion

Altera MegaCore

Amphion

Altera MegaCore

HammerCores by Altera

Amphion

Nova Engineering

Amphion

Nova Engineering

HammerCores by Altera

Frontier Design

Altera MegaCore

HammerCores by Altera

A daptive Filter

Complex Mixer/Multiplier

Cordpol Function

DTMF Transciever

Floating-P oint Operator Library

FIR Filter Library

Fast Fourier Transform (FFT/IFFT)

Fast Fourier Transform (FFT/IFFT), High P erformance

Fast Fourier Transform (FFT/IFFT), Low Latency

FIR Compiler

Hadamard Transform Processor

Intermediate Data Rate (IDR) Framer/Deframer

Early/Late Gate Symbol Synchronizer

Rank Order Filter Library

Image Processing Library

JPEG Decoder/Encoder

Laplacian Edge Detector

Linear Feedback Shift Register

LMS and Zero-Forcing Equalizers

Logarithm Function

Multichannel ADPCM Speech/Audio Compression Processor

RGB2YCrCb/YCrCb2RGB Color Space Converters

Square Root Function

µ-Law and A-Law Compander

APEX 20K, FLEX 1 0K

APEX 20K, FLEX 1 0K, FLEX 8000, FLEX 6000

APEX 20K, A CEX 1K, FLEX 1 0K

APEX 20K

APEX 20K, A CEX 1K, FLEX 1 0K, FLEX 8000, FLEX 6000

APEX 20K, A CEX 1K, FLEX 1 0K

APEX 20K, A CEX 1K, FLEX 1 0K, FLEX 8000, FLEX 6000

APEX 20K, A CEX 1K, FLEX 1 0K

APEX 20K, FLEX 1 0K

APEX 20K, FLEX 1 0K, FLEX 8000, FLEX 6000

APEX 20K, A CEX 1K, FLEX 1 0K, FLEX 8000, FLEX 6000

APEX 20K, A CEX 1K, FLEX 1 0K

APEX 20K, FLEX 1 0K, FLEX 8000, FLEX 6000

APEX 20K, A CEX 1K, FLEX 1 0K

APEX 20K

APEX 20K, A CEX 1K, FLEX 1 0K, FLEX 8000, FLEX 6000

EX 20K, A CEX 1K, FLEX 1 0K

APEX 20K, A CEX 1K, FLEX 1 0K, FLEX 8000, FLEX 6000

Signal Processing Hardware Block Megafunctions

A daptive Equalizer

Binary P attern Correlator

Constellation Mapper/Demapper

Digital Modulator

P arameterized Discrete Cosine Transform

IIR Filter Compiler

IIR Filter Library

Numerically Controlled Oscillator Compiler

Numerically Controlled Oscillator

QPSK Equalizer

HammerCores by Altera

Amphion

Nova Engineering

Altera MegaCore

Nova Engineering

Amphion

Altera MegaCore

Amphion

Altera MegaCore

Nova Engineering

Amphion

APEX 20K, A CEX 1K, FLEX 1 0K

APEX 20K, FLEX 1 0K

APEX 20K, FLEX 1 0K, FLEX 8000, FLEX 6000

APEX 20K, A CEX 1K, FLEX 1 0K, FLEX 8000, FLEX 6000

APEX 20K, FLEX 1 0K

APEX 20K, A CEX 1K, FLEX 1 0K

APEX 20K, A CEX 1K, FLEX 1 0K, FLEX 8000, FLEX 6000

APEX 20K, A CEX 1K, FLEX 1 0K

APEX 20K, A CEX 1K, FLEX 1 0K, FLEX 8000, FLEX 6000

APEX 20K, FLEX 1 0K

Signal Processing Modulation Megafunctions

Complete Solution for High-Performance

Communication Systems

With the largest portfolio of drop-in DSP and wireless

functions available, entire communications systems can

be built with Altera signal processing IP. Forward error

correction schemes such as Reed-Solomon, Viterbi, and

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FUNCTION DESCRIPTION SOURCE PRODUCT FAMILY

Amphion

KTech Telecommunications

Altera MegaCore

Nova Engineering

Sciworx

HammerCores by Altera

CAST , Inc.

Amphion

Altera MegaCore

Amphion

Mentor Graphics, Inventra

Altera MegaCore

Turboconcept

Amphion

Altera MegaCore

APEX 20K, FLEX 1 0K

APEX 20K, FLEX 1 0K, FLEX 8000, FLEX 6000, MAX 9000

APEX 20K, A CEX 1K, FLEX 1 0K

APEX 20K, FLEX 1 0K, FLEX 8000, FLEX 6000

APEX 20K, A CEX 1K, FLEX 1 0K, FLEX 8000, FLEX 6000

APEX 20K, FLEX 1 0K, FLEX 8000, FLEX 6000

APEX 20K, FLEX 1 0K

APEX 20K, A CEX 1K, FLEX 1 0K, FLEX 8000, FLEX 6000

APEX 20K, A CEX 1K, FLEX 1 0K

APEX 20K, A CEX 1K, FLEX 1 0K, FLEX 8000, FLEX 6000

APEX 20K

APEX 20K, A CEX 1K, FLEX 1 0K, FLEX 8000, FLEX 6000

APEX 20K

APEX 20K, A CEX 1K, FLEX 1 0K, FLEX 8000, FLEX 6000

Signal Processing Signal Coding Megafunctions

Block and Convolutional Interleaver/Deinterleaver

Convolutional Encoder

Convolutional Interleaver

CRC Checker/Generator

Dual Constraint Length Viterbi Decoder

DES Core

X DES Cryptoprocessor

D VB CODEC

Reed-Solomon Compiler

Reed-Solomon Decoder

Reed-Solomon Encoder

Reed-Solomon Decoder

Symbol Interleaver/Deinterleaver

Turbo Decoder

Turbo Encoder

Turbo Decoder TC1 000 (DVB-RCS)

Viterbi Decoder

Viterbi Encoder

Viterbi Compiler

Altera megafunctions provide system-level solutions for

emerging communications technologies. Communications

megafunctions for telecom and datacom are complex,

standards-based cores that can be combined with user-

designed logic to develop unique solutions in a single

Altera device. The Altera IP communications portfolio

consists of core functions for T1/E1, T3/E3, SONET/SDH,

and ATM networking infrastructure, as well as interfaces

for Utopia and POS-PHY. These megafunctions are ideal

for high-performance digital subscriber line access mul-

tiplexers (DSLAM), access concentrators, edge routers,

multiplexers, and multi-service switches.

Communications Megafunctions

Altera customers can use APEX™ devices and leading-

edge communications IP functions to implement

SONET/SDH framing and transmission convergence.

Communications megafunctions use well-defined bus

interfaces, and can be quickly and easily implemented

in a design. Detailed, public technical specifications

regarding Altera’s Atlantic, Midbus, and AIRbus inter-

faces allow designers to quickly connect individual

cores for a system solution. The figure below shows an

example system implementation of the STS-3C Framer

interfacing with two other Altera MegaCore functions

to achieve ATM transport over SONET.

Receive Clock

Transmit Clock

Midbus Atlantic

Communications IP Functions

AIRbus

POSPHY

Level 2 Bus

Clock Data

Recovery

Fiber Optic

Module SER/DES SONET/SDH

STS-3c/STM-1

Framer

(STS3CFRM)

Processor

Interface

External

Processor

PPP Packet

Processor

155 Mbps

(PP155)

POSPHY

Interface

(POSPHY/P2)

SONET Typical Application

Synchronous Transport Signal (STS) & Synchronous Transport Module (STM)

SONET SONET SDH BOTH

North America STS Level North America OC Level European STM Level Line Rates (Mbps)

STS-1 OC-1 N/A 51.84

STS-3 OC-3 STM-1 155.52

STS-12 OC-12 STM-4 622.08

STS-48 OC-48 STM-16 2,488.32

STS-192 OC-192 STM-64 9,953.28

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Altera’s communications portfolio contains megafunc-

tions for a wide range of line rates. Functions optimized

for the North American T-carrier and European E-carrier

markets are available. For North American STS and

European STM levels and line rates, please refer to the

Synchronous Transport Signal and Synchronous

Transport Module table.

Communications IP megafunctions have been tested to

meet the required Bellcore GR-253-CORE and GR-253-ILR

specifications, as well as the ITU-T G.783 and ITU-T

G.707 specifications defining SONET and SDH transport.

Altera’s communications IP megafunctions allow users

to quickly and efficiently implement standards-based

functionality, while focusing on their proprietary value-

adding technology.

Communications Interface Megafunctions

FUNCTION DESCRIPTION SOURCE PRODUCT FAMILY

POSPHY Level 2 PHY-Side Interface Altera MegaCore APEX 20KE

POSPHY Level 2 Link-Side Interface Altera MegaCore APEX 20KE

SONET Byte Bus Interface Innocor Ltd. APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

UTOPIA Level 2 Master Altera MegaCore APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

UTOPIA Level 2 Master AMIRIX APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

UTOPIA Level 2 Master Receiver Paxonet Communications APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

UTOPIA Level 2 Master Transmitter Paxonet Communications APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

UTOPIA Level 2 Slave Altera MegaCore APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

UTOPIA Level 2 Slave AMIRIX APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

UTOPIA Level 2 Slave Receiver Paxonet Communications APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

UTOPIA Level 2 Slave Transmitter Paxonet Communications APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

UTOPIA Level 2 to Level 3 Multiplexer SOC Magic FLEX 10K

UTOPIA Level 3 Master AMIRIX APEX 20K

UTOPIA Level 3 Slave AMIRIX APEX 20K

UTOPIA Level 3 to Level 2 Demultiplexer SOC Magic FLEX 10K

Sony/Philips Digital Audio Interface Sciworx APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

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Communications Core Logic Megafunctions

FUNCTION DESCRIPTION SOURCE PRODUCT FAMILY

10/100 Ethernet Media Access Controller (MAC) Alcatel APEX 20K

10/100 Ethernet Media Access Controller (MAC) Stargate Solutions, Inc. APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

10/100 Ethernet Media Access Controller (MAC) Paxonet Communications APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

Gigabit Ethernet Media Access Controller (MAC) Alcatel APEX 20K

ADPCM Transcoder, Multi-Standard Amphion APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

ATM Cell Delineation Paxonet Communications APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

ATM Cell Processor (155 Mbps) Altera MegaCore APEX 20KE

ATM Cell Processor (622 Mbps) Altera MegaCore APEX 20KE

ATM Controller Innocor Ltd. APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

ATM POS FIFO Innocor Ltd. APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

Bit Error Rate Tester (BERT) Innocor Ltd. APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

CRC Checker/Generator Altera MegaCore APEX 20K, ACEX 1K, FLEX 10K

CRC-10 Paxonet Communications APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

CRC-32 Paxonet Communications APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

E1 Framer Paxonet Communications APEX 20K

Fast Ethernet Media Access Controller (MAC) Receiver Paxonet Communications APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

Fast Ethernet Media Access Controller (MAC) Transmitter Paxonet Communications APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

High-Level Data Link Controller (HDLC) CAST, Inc. APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

High-Level Data Link Controller (HDLC) Paxonet Communications APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

High-Level Data Link Controller (HDLC) Amphion APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

High-Level Data Link Controller (HDLC), Bit-Oriented Innocor Ltd. APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

Intermediate Data Rate (IDR) Framer/Deframer Amphion APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

Inverse Multiplexing for ATM (IMA) 1.1 ModelWare APEX 20K

NRZ/NRZI Data Encoder-Decoder Innocor Ltd. APEX 20K, FLEX 10K, FLEX 8000, FLEX 6000

OC-12 Framer Paxonet Communications APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

OC-3 Framer Paxonet Communications APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

Packet Over SONET Controller Innocor Ltd. APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

PPP Packet Processor 155 Mbps Altera MegaCore APEX 20KE

PPP Packet Processor 622 Mbps Altera MegaCore APEX 20KE

PPP8 Paxonet Communications APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

SONET STS-1 Framer Altera MegaCore APEX 20KE

SONET/SDH STS-3c/STM-1 Framer Altera MegaCore APEX 20KE

Synchronous Mode Path Processor Paxonet Communications APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

T1 Framer Paxonet Communications APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

T3 Framer Paxonet Communications APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

T3 Framer Altera MegaCore APEX 20KE

Telephony Tone Generation NComm, Inc. APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

Universal Digital Data Acquisition PLD Applications APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

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Bus interface solutions include several megafunctions,

such as peripheral component interconnect (PCI), universal

serial bus (USB), controller area network (CAN) bus,

SDRAM controller, and the IEEE 1394 serial bus. These

solutions enable designers to focus on differentiating

their designs.

PCI Interface

The PCI bus serves as a

device-level interconnect

for peripherals on a circuit

board, and as a bus for high-performance expansion

cards. The PCI bus architecture is ideal for applications

such as network adapters, storage area networks,

embedded controllers, graphic accelerator boards, and

audio-video products. Altera APEX and FLEX® devices

provide a programmable logic solution for a variety of

PCI applications. PCI megafunctions include 32- and

64-bit master/target functions at speeds up to 66-MHz,

as well as high-performance PCI-X megafunction.

PCI MegaCore functions are fully tested to meet the

requirements of the PCI Special Internet Group (SIG),

PCI Local Bus Specification Revision 2.2 and

Compliance Checklist Revision 2.2.

PCI-X

PCI-X protocol provides higher performance through

changes in decode logic, meets timing standards,

and is PCI Revision 2.2 backward compatible. Altera

currently offers two PCI-X solutions, a MegaCore and

an AMPP solution.

A typical PCI local bus system may include a processor/

cache/memory subsystem connected to a PCI bus

through a PCI bridge. The Altera PCI solution provides

critical advantages for the system designer. Alter a’s

high-density APEX and FLEX devices enable a designer

to create a single device solution that includes both the

PCI interface and application-specific logic for a custom

solution. PCI-X emphasizes the performance of the SOPC

system over the performance of individual functions.

Altera PCI megafunctions deliver compliance and opti-

mization while significantly reducing design time.

Typical PCI Local Bus System

Processor

Cache

DRAM

ISA/EISA - Microchannel

Bridge/

Memory

Controller

Motion

Video

Graphics

Audio

Bus

Interface Base I/O

Functions

SCSILAN

PCI/PCI-X Local Bus

PCI & Other Bus Interface Megafunctions

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Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Megafunctions

1394A Link Layer Controller Core

1394 Link Layer Controller

CAN Bus

IIC Master/Slave

PCMCIA Card Interface

PCMCIA Card Interface Controller

PowerPC Bus Arbiter

PowerPC Bus Master

PowerPC Bus Slave

PowerPC to Hostbridge

USB 1.1 Function Controller

USB 2.0 Function Controller

IDE Controller ATA 1

IDE Controller ATA 4

IDE Controller ATA 5

USB 1.1 OHCI Host Controller

USB 1.1 Device Controller

USB 1.1 Host Controller

USB 1.1 Function Controller: Si-Function

USB 1.1 Hub Controller: Si-Function

USB 2.0 Device Controller

USB 2.0 Host Controller

USB 2.0 Hub Controller

inSilicon Inc.

Simple Silicon, Inc.

Sciworx

Digital Core Design

Mentor Graphics, Inventra

Eureka Technology

Mentor Graphics, Inventra

isSilicon

ARASAN Chips

Simple Silicon, Inc.

ARASAN Chips

APEX 20K, FLEX 10K, FLEX 8000, FLEX 6000

APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

APEX 20K, FLEX 10K, FLEX 8000, FLEX 6000

APEX 20K, FLEX 10K, FLEX 6000, MAX® 9000, MAX 7000

APEX 20K, FLEX 10K, ACEX 1K

APEX 20K, FLEX 10K, FLEX 8000, MAX 9000, MAX 7000

APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

APEX 20K

APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

APEX 20K

Other Bus Interface Megafunctions

PCI-X Master/Target

PCI-X Initiator/Target

64-Bit PCI Master/Target

64-Bit PCI Target Only

32-Bit PCI Master/Target with Burst

32-Bit PCI Target Only Interface

32-Bit PCI Target Only with Burst

32-Bit PCI Master/Target

with DMA Controller

32-Bit PCI Master/Target

PCI Hostbridge

FUNCTION DESCRIPTION

Altera MegaCore

DCM Technologies

Altera MegaCore

PLD Applications

Eureka Technology

Altera MegaCore

PLD Applications

Eureka Technology

PLD Applications

Altera MegaCore

Eureka Technology

Altera MegaCore

Eureka Technology

SOURCE

APEX 20KE

APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

APEX 20K, APEX 20KE, FLEX 10K

APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

APEX 20K, FLEX 10K, FLEX 6000

APEX 20K, FLEX 10K, FLEX 8000

APEX 20K, FLEX 10K, FLEX 8000, FLEX 6000

FLEX 10K

APEX 20K, FLEX 10K, FLEX 8000, FLEX 6000

PRODUCT FAMILY

FUNCTION DESCRIPTION SOURCE PRODUCT FAMILY

APEX PCI

FLEX PCI

PROC10K

PROC20K

CPCI GEN10K

PCI GEN10K

PCI 20K-PROD

DESCRIPTION Altera

Altera

Gid'el Limited

PLD Applications

SOURCE APEX 20KE

FLEX 10KE

FLEX 10K

APEX 20K

FLEX 10K

APEX 20K

PRODUCT FAMILY

PCI Development Boards

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To support the development and verification of IP

designs, Altera and its partners provide a variety of

development and prototyping boards. These boards

speed system design by allowing application software

development to begin earlier in the design flow. Also,

hardware designers can verify IP functionality quickly

and effectively.

Altera SOPC Development Board

The Altera SOPC development board is a development

and prototyping platform that provides system designers

with a cost-effective solution to hardware verification.

The development board included in the kit supports a

variety of microprocessor-based designs by incorporat-

ing memory, debugging, and interface resources.

The board is designed primarily for implementing

microprocessor functions and other standard IP func-

tions in the on-board APEX device, and includes inter-

faces for widely-used standard interconnects. To use

interconnect functions on the board, you must imple-

ment control logic in the APEX device.

The board also supports EJTAG, which develops and

debugs microprocessor functions, and JTAG for other

system testing. For additional analysis, the JTAG port can

be used with the SignalTap® embedded logic analyzer

available with the Quartus™ II development software.

IP Development Products

PCI Development Kits

In addition to PCI megafunctions, Altera also offers PCI

development boards. An APEX PCI board and a FLEX

PCI board support 32- or 64-bit, 33- or 66-MHz PCI

operations. Each board comes with a software application

to run a PCI reference design. The reference design is

available in source code, enabling the designer to easily

complete the PCI user design. The development boards

are intended for evaluation of the PCI core, and for rapid

prototyping and debugging in a real-time environment.

SOPC Development Boards

ORDER CODE DESCRIPTION

SOPC-Board/A4E Complete development kit that

features APEX EP20K400E-1X

SOPC-Board/A15E Complete development kit that

features APEX EP20K1500E-1X

Altera SOPC Development Board

SOPC Development Board

Constellation

Megalogic System 100

XT1000

DIGILAB 10K10

DIGILAB 20Kx240

DIGILAB 10Kx240

DIGILAB picoMAX

PC104+

DESCRIPTION

Altera

Nova Engineering

Princeton Technology Group

Tensilica, Inc.

El Camino GmbH

RPA Electronics Design, LLC

SOURCE

APEX 20KE

FLEX 10K

APEX 20K

FLEX 10K

APEX 20K

FLEX 10K

MAX 3000A, MAX 7000A, MAX 7000B, MAX 7000S

FLEX 10K

PRODUCT FAMILY

Megafunction Development Platforms

PCI Development Kits

ORDER CODE DESCRIPTION

PCI-Board/2S PCI FLEX EPF10K200S-1

development kit

PCI-Board/A4E PCI APEX EP20K400E-1X

mid-range APEX development kit

PCI-Board/A10E PCI APEX EP20K1000E-1X

high-density APEX development kit

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Nios 16-/32-Bit Embedded Processor

2901 Four-Bit Microprocessor Slice

32-Bit Moon Java Processor

C29116A 16-Bit Microprocessor

LX4180 32-Bit RISC Microprocessor

LX4280 32-Bit Dual Issue Superscalar RISC Microprocessor

LX5280 32-Bit High Performance RISC Microprocessor

XTensa 32-Bit Configurable Microprocessor

Altera

CAST, Inc.

Vulcan Machines

CAST, Inc.

Lexra, Inc.

Tensilica, Inc.

APEX 20K

APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

APEX 20K

APEX 20K, FLEX 10K, FLEX 8000

APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

APEX 20KE

APEX 20K

Processor Megafunctions

M8051 Warp 8-Bit Microcontroller

M8237A U Channel DMA Controller

M16550 A UART

M16C450 UART

8051 8-Bit RISC Microcontroller

8052 8-Bit RISC Extended Microcontroller

8259 Programmable Interrupt Controller

a16450 UART

a6402 UART

a6850 ACIA

a8237 DMA Controller

a8251A Communication Interface

a8255A Programmable Peripheral Adapter

a8259 Programmable Interrupt Controller

C16450 UART

C16550 UART

C2910/C2910A Microprogram Controller

C49410 Microprogram Controller

C6850 ACIA

C8051 Microcontroller

C165X RISC Microcontroller

80515 Microcontroller

80530 Microcontroller

C8251 Communications Interface

C8254 Interval Timer/Counter

C8259 Programmable Interrupt Controller

C8279 Programmable Keyboard/Display Interface

DMA Controller

SDRAM Controller

FUNCTION DESCRIPTION Mentor Graphics, Inventra

Mentor Graphics, Inventra

Digital Core Design

Innocor Ltd.

Altera MegaCore

CAST, Inc.

Eureka Technology

SOURCE APEX 20K, FLEX 10K, ACEX 1K

APEX 20K, FLEX 10K, ACEX 1K

APEX 20K, FLEX 10K, FLEX 8000, FLEX 6000

APEX 20K, ACEX 1K, FLEX 10K

APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

FLEX 10K

APEX 20K, FLEX 10K, FLEX 6000

APEX 20K, FLEX 10K

PRODUCT FAMILY

FUNCTION DESCRIPTION SOURCE PRODUCT FAMILY

Peripheral Megafunctions

Processor and Peripheral Megafunctions

Processor and peripheral megafunctions provide

solutions for embedded processors, microcontrollers,

processor cores, and peripheral functions such as UARTs

and interrupt controllers. These solutions enable designers

to focus on differentiating elements of the design and

using their existing building blocks to build systems

ranging from interface line cards to communication

systems.

Nios Embedded Processor

The Nios™ embedded processor, an Excalibur solution, is

a configurable, general-pu rp os e, pi pe li ne d R IS C

microprocessor that is optimized for Altera PLD

architectures. Used with an Altera APEX device, it easily

leaves enough logic available for peripherals and other

IP functions.

Altera Corporation14

For a complete list of Premier AMPP and AMPP

partners, please visit the Altera web site at

http://www.altera.com/IPmegastore.

AddressPartner Phone Internet URLEmail

Innocor Ltd. 7 Mill Street, Suite 300, Almonte, Ontario, Canada K0A 1A0 (613) 256-5339 www.innocor.cominfo@innocor.com

Nova Engineering 5 Circle Freeway Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45246-1105 (513) 860-3456 www.nova-eng.cominfo@nova-eng.com

PLD Applications 32 ZAC de Bompertius-Avenu d'Armenie, F-13120 Gardanne (33) 442-654-388 www.plda.complda@worldnet.fr

Premier AMPP Partners

AddressPartner Phone Internet URL

11707 East Sprague, Ste 106, Spokane, WA 94206

77 Chain Lake Drive, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3S 1E1

4340 Stevens Creek Blvd., San Jose, CA 95129

24 White Birch Drive, Pomona, NY 10970

46750 Fremont Blvd., Suite 208, Fremont, CA 94538

Wroclawska 94, 41-902 Bytom, Poland

7501A Capitol of Texas Hwy., Suite 140, Austin, TX 78731

B.P.65-ZIRST, F38242 Meylan Cedex, France

4962 El Camino Real, Suite 108, Los Altos, CA 94022

8700 Creekside Place Beaverton, OR 97008

800S, Pacific Coast Hwy. #8, Redondo Beach, CA 90277

Teknolgiantie 14, 90570 Oulu, Finland

411 E. Plumeria Drive, San Jose, CA 95134

50 Malone Road, Belfast, BT9 5BS, Northern Ireland

15501 SF Mission Blvd., Suite 100, Mission Hills, CA 91345

51 Sawyer Road, Suite 110, 2 University Park

Waltham, MA 02154

1001 Ridder Park Drive, San Jose, CA 95131

10 West Bergen Place, #105, Red Bank, NJ 07701

401 Main Street, Suite 204, Salem, NH 03079

2055 Gateway Place, Suite 240, San Jose, CA 95110

400 Oyster Point Blvd., Suite 512, S. San Francisco, CA 94080

10430 S. De Anza Blvd., Suite 195, Cupertino, CA 95014

Shekou Cuiweiyuan, 1-203 Shenzhen, 51807, China

2160 Lundy Ln., #240, San Jose, CA 95131

3255-6 Scott Blvd., Santa Clara, CA 95054

1 avenue du technopole, 29280 Plouzane, France

20 Trafalgar Square, Suite 443, Nashua, NH 03063

Unit 6, The Maltings, Green Drift, Royston, Herts, SG85DY, UK

(509) 777-7330

(902) 450-1788

(408) 985-9495

(914) 354-4945

(510) 770-2277

48 32 282 8266

(510) 710-7686

33 (0)4 7641 1096

(415) 960-3800

(503) 672-8800

(310) 540-6541

358 400 688 263

(408) 570-1000

44 1232 664 664

(818) 361-2248

(781) 899-5799

(408) 451-5670

(732) 936-1808

(603) 893-6186

(408) 487-9651

(650) 625-1888

(408) 873-2260

86 755 686 1129

(408) 954-8302

(408) 873-1000

Ext. 302

33 2 29 00 12 24

(603) 882-2282

44 1763 247624

www.ind.alcatel.com/enterprise/

products/ip/index.html

www.amirix.com

www.arasan.com

www.cast-inc.com

www.paxonet.com

www.dcd.com.pl

www.dcmtech.com

www.dolphin.fr

www.eurekatech.com

www.fluence.com

www.frontierd.com

www.hantro.com

www.phoenix.com

www.amphion.com

www.ktechtelecom.com

www.lexra.com

www.mentor.com/inventra/

netlist.program

www.modelware.com

www.ncomm.com

www.palmchip.com

www.sci-worx.com

www.simplesi.com

www.socmagic.com

www.sgates.com

www.tensilica.com

www.turboconcept.com

www.vautomation.com

www.vulcanmachines.com

ipinfi@ind.alcatel.com

info@amirix.com

info@arasan.com

opencore@cast-inc.com

sales@paxonet.com

info@dcd.com.pl

info@dcmtech.com

flip@dolphin.fr

info@eurekatech.com

mark_olen@fluence.com

info@frontierd.com

info@hantro.com

sales@vchips.com

info@amphion.com

skuh@ktechtelecom.com

info@lexra.com

inventra_fpga@mentor.com

info@modelware.com

info@ncomm.com

ampp@palmchip.com

info@sci-worx.com

info@simplesi.com

jerry@socmagic.com

info@sgates.com

sales@hq.tensilica.com

info@turboconcept.com

ampp@VAutomation.com

sales@vulcanmachines.com

AMPP Partners

Alcatel-Technology

Licensing Group

AMIRIX

ARASAN Chips Systems

CAST, Inc.

Paxonet Communications

Digital Core Design

DCM Technologies

Dolphin Integration

Eureka Technology

Fluence Technologies

Frontier Design

Hantro Products

inSilicon, Inc.

Amphion

KTech Telecommunications

Lexra, Inc.

Mentor Graphics, Inventra

ModelWare

NComm, Inc.

Palmchip Corporation

Sciworx

Simple Silicon, Inc.

SOC Magic

Stargate Solutions, Inc.

Tensilica, Inc.

Turbo Concept

VAutomation, Inc.

Vulcan Machines Ltd.

AMPP Par tners Director y

Altera Corporation 15

Additional Documentation Available on

the Altera Web Site

Altera provides additional reference documentation

such as data sheets, application notes, and solution

briefs. For the latest literature, information about

Altera, and megafunction updates, go to the Altera web

site at http://www.altera.com/IPmegastore.

ATM Switch

Biometric

Bridge and Router

Cable Modem

Cellular Basestation

Consumer Electronics

Data Acquisition

Data Storage System

Digital Audio and Video Broadcast

Disk Drive Array

DVD

Embedded Controller/Processor

Frame Relay

Gigabit Ethernet System

HDTV, SDTV, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.26X

High-End Printer

High-Speed Telecommunications Equipment

Instrumentation

Internet Connectivity Device

LAN/WAN

Medical Imaging

PC Peripheral

PCS (GSM, CDMA, TDMA)

Satellite (GPS, DBS, LEOS)

Set-Top Box

SONET

Spread Spectrum Communications

T1/T3 and E1/E3 Line Card

Token Ring

Voice and Multimedia Over IP

xDSL

End Application Functional Groups

Altera Megafunction Application Matrix

PCI & Other

Bus Interfaces

Digital Signal

Processing (DSP) Communications Processors

& Peripherals

Altera megafunctions provide a wide range of solutions

to fulfill your application needs, as summarized in the

following table.

Megafunctions Applications Matrix

MAX, MAX 9000, MAX 7000, MAX+PLUS, MAX+PLUS II, MegaCore, MegaWizard, Nios, OpenCore, Premier AMPP, Quar tus, Quartus II, SignalTap, and specific device designations

are trademarks and/or service marks of Altera Corporation in the United States and other countries. Other brands or products are trademarks of their respective holders. The specifications

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Telephone: (408) 544-7000

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