The release of Intel's Agilex FPGA will definitely bring a wave of impact to the FPGA market

From Falcon Mesa to Agile

Flexible + Agile = AgilexTM FPGA

Agilex is a combination of Agile and Flexible, and these two features are the two core points of modern FPGA technology.

Specifically, "flexibility" refers to programmability. It is based on the core technology of FPGA - programmable logic array, which can be flexibly programmed for different application scenarios and change the logical structure and function of FPGA.

"Agility" refers to heterogeneity, which can be heterogeneous between different logical units, heterogeneous in different processes, or both. As shown in the figure below, the mature process and iteration time corresponding to different types of IP are different. Only by adopting a heterogeneous architecture can we give full play to the advantages of different IPs and different process nodes, and learn from each other to achieve a good balance between performance and cost. Therefore, heterogeneous FPGAs are also the main direction of current and future industry development and research.

In this context, AgilexTM FPGAs came into being. It combines the flexible programmability of traditional FPGAs with the agility of modern FPGAs based on heterogeneous architectures, so it can be applied to many applications at the same time, and configured and quickly iterated, as shown in the following figure.

Compared to the FPGA family of Stratix®, Arria®, Cyclone®, and Max®, which evolved for many years, AgilexTM was officially launched after the original FPGA giant Altera was acquired by Intel at the end of 2015 and became its Programmable Solutions Group (PSG). A brand new FPGA series. For this reason, AgilexTM has undoubtedly been expected by Intel.

Behind these expectations, it is inseparable from the blessing of Intel's core technology. This will also be a major advantage in distinguishing AgilexTM from its predecessors and other competitors.

This article is from Allicdata Electronics Limited.