Altera’s wideband Agilex 9 Direct RF-Series AGRW039 SoC FPGA is designed for high-performance Radio Frequency (RF) systems in aerospace, defense, and advanced communications systems.
It is the fourth device in Altera’s Agilex 9 Direct RF-Series, and compared to the previous generation AGRW027, the new AGRW039 delivers about 45% more logic resources, 45% more DSP resources, and 43% more block RAM. It also integrates a 64Gsps wideband RF, a hard quad-core Cortex-A53 processor, and supports DDR5 and LPDDR5 memory.
Agilex 9 Direct RF AGRW039 SoC FPGA key features and specifications:
- Hardware CPU – Quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 processor @ up to 1.41 GHz
- FPGA fabric
- 3.9M logic elements (LEs)
- 1.3M adaptive logic modules (ALMs)
- 18,960 M20K memory Blocks
- 370 Mb M20K memory Size
- 65,280 MLAB memory count
- 40 Mb MLAB memory size
- 24,600 18×19 multipliers
- 12,300 DSP/AI blocks
- Single Precision – 18.4 TFLOPS
- Memory I/F – DDR5, LPDDR5, DDR4
- Peripherals
- PS – 2x USB 2.0, 3x Gigabit Ethernet (EMAC), 2x UART, 4x SPI, 5x I2C, 7x general purpose timers, 4x watchdog timers
- 2x 8-channel ADC/DACs
- 64 Gsps sample rate, 10-bit resolution
- RF Frequency Range: 0.1–36 GHz
- ADC Rx Max IBW: 32 GHz
- DAC Tx Max IBW: 6.4 GHz
- Up to 24x 58G transceivers
- 2x F-Tiles
- PCIe hard IP controller (4.0 x16) or Bifurcatable 2x PCIe 4.0 x8 (EP) or 4x 4.0 x4 (RP)
- Transceiver channel count – 16 channels at 32 Gbps (NRZ) /12 channels at 58 Gbps (PAM4) – RS & KP FEC
- Advanced networking support:
- Bifurcatable 400 GbE hard IP block (10/25/50/100/200/400 GbE FEC/PCS/MAC)
- Bifurcatable 200 GbE hard IP block (10/25/50/100/200 Gbs FEC/PCS)
- 300G Interlaken
- IEEE 1588 support
- PMA direct
- Secure device manager (SDM)
- AES-256/SHA-256 bitstream encryption/authentication
- Physically unclonable function (PUF)
- ECDSA 256/384 boot code authentication
- Side channel attack protection
- Dimensions – 56 x 45 mm
- Manufacturing process – Intel Fab 7
The Agilex 9 Direct RF-Series is supported by the Quartus Prime Pro Edition design software, and the company also provides example designs, IP blocks, and a development kit for which we have limited information, except for the cool photo below.
We’re also told that the AGRW039 is fully compatible with designs targeting Altera’s Agilex 7 M-Series devices, so customers can preserve designs while moving to the Agilex 9 Direct RF-Series platform.
You’ll find a few more technical details on the product page, and a nice summary on the blog, but I’ll spare you the link to the utterly useless, quasi-misleading press release…
Thanks to TLS for the tip.
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