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Altera's Signal Integrity Center

The signal integrity center offers design resources that are essential in building reliable high-speed systems with Altera® FPGAs and HardCopy® ASICs. Resources include customer board and FPGA design guidelines, software simulation tools, models, characterization reports, and demonstration platforms.

Altera Signal Integrity Features 

  • Plug & Play Signal Integrity: Adaptive equalization and hot socketing
  • Hot Socketing: Safely add and remove devices while system is in operation
  • Simplified PCB design and power savings and improved signal integrity with on-chip termination
Tools and Models

  • IBIS Models
  • SPICE Models
  • Board-Level Tools
  • Learn how pre-emphasis and equalization link estimator (PELE) technology can take weeks off your Stratix® II GX channel simulation
  • Optimize your board-level power distribution network (PDN) with the graphical PDN Design Tool
  • Calculate the worst-case simultaneous switching noise (SSN) seen in a design using the
    • Stratix V Early SSN Estimator and user guide (PDF) 
    • Stratix II GX Early SSN Estimator and user guide (PDF)
    • Stratix III Early SSN Estimator and user guide (PDF)
    • Arria V Early SSN Estimator and user guide (PDF) 
  • Purchase Altera's Transceiver Signal Integrity Development Kit, Stratix IV GX Edition to evaluate transceiver signal integrity and interoperability
  • Visit the Altera Board Design Resource Center to view all the tools and models for your Altera FPGA designs
Device Signal Integrity

Select the FPGA that you will use in your design.
  • Stratix V: 28-nm FPGA with highest bandwidth, highest system integration, and ultimate flexibility, and integrated transceivers at 12.5 Gbps and 28 Gbps
  • Stratix IV: High-density, low-power 40-nm FPGAs with up to 11.3-Gbps transceivers
  • Stratix III: Lowest power, high-performance 65-nm FPGAs with 1+ Gbps DDR3 memory interfaces
  • Stratix II: 90-nm, high-end FPGAs
  • Stratix II GX: FPGAs with transceivers (up to 6.375 Gbps)
    • Features
    • Characterization
  • Stratix GX: FPGAs with transceivers (up to 3.125 Gbps)
  • Arria® II: Low-power, cost-optimized 40-nm FPGAs with transceivers (up to 6.375 Gbps)
  • Arria GX: Cost-optimized FPGAs with transceivers (up to 3.125 Gbps)
  • Cyclone® IV: Lowest power, lowest cost FPGAs with integrated transceiver variant
  • Cyclone III: 65-nm, low-cost FPGAs
  • Cyclone II: The lowest cost FPGAs ever
Signal Integrity Education

  • Signal Integrity Webcasts
  • Signal Integrity Basics
  • High-Speed Glossary
  • Go to Dr. Eric Bogatin's Signal Integrity Prescription Column
  • Visit the Altera Board Design Resource Center, a comprehensive repository of signal integrity and board design guidelines and information
Partners 


Learn more about signal integrity simulation tools and services provided by our partners.

Get design assistance from Altera's design services partners.

  • Design Services Partners
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  • Signal Integrity Features
    • Plug & Play Signal Integrity
  • Tools and Models
    • Power Distribution Network
  • Device Signal Integrity
    • Stratix V
    • Stratix IV
    • Stratix III
    • Stratix II GX
      • Features
      • Characterization
    • Stratix II
    • Stratix GX
    • Arria II GX
    • Arria GX
    • Cyclone IV
    • Cyclone III
    • Cyclone II
  • SI Education
    • Signal Integrity Basics
    • High-Speed Glossary
    • Dr. Eric Bogatin
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