DSP Solutions

Altera's Stratix^® 10 FPGAs and SoCs are the industry’s first floating-point devices capable of over 10 TeraFLOPs single-precision IEEE-754 performance.

At 20 nm, Altera further improves the industry's first variable-precision digital signal processing (DSP) block, a key feature in our Arria® 10 devices. This innovative block combines native support for higher precision signal processing, such as 18x18, 27x27, and floating point. Along with other architectural enhancements, the Arria 10 devices are the platform of choice for high-performance and high-precision signal processing.

• View the Arria 10 Device Handbook
• Download Quartus II Software Arria 10 Edition v13.1

• Variable-precision DSP architecture, delivering precision and performance that you can configure at compile time for your application
• DSP Builder Advanced Blockset, automatically creating f_MAX and latency-optimized netlists from MATLAB/Simulink design descriptions
• Complete 1080p video design framework, including our Video and Image Processing Suite of intellectual property (IP) cores
• Comprehensive floating-point IP cores, that include functions ranging from addition, subtraction, and inversion, to floating-point fast Fourier transforms (FFTs)
• High-performance floating-point DSP solutions, including Altera's model-based tool flow using DSP Builder Advanced Blockset to resolve floating-point design challenges

Altera's variable-precision DSP block provides the most efficient implementation for common DSP structures, such as finite impulse response (FIR) filters and FFTs.

In the last few years, GPUs have moved beyond graphics become powerful floating-point processing platforms, known as GP-GPUs, that offer high rates of peak FLOPs. FPGAs, traditionally used for fixed-point DSP, now offer competing levels of floating-point processing, making them candidates for backend radar processing acceleration.  This whitepaper compares FPGAs and GPUs floating-point performance and design flows.

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• Video and Image Processing Suite IP
• Altera DSP IP
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