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robinkle
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1 year ago
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AGILEX 3 for hobbyists?

Hello.

I'm planning a new hobbyist project (gotta start somewhere) and I'm thinking about using the MAX 10 and I know it will be available until 2035. But I recently discovered that there will be a new low cost AGILEX 3 coming and I was wondering if that will be supported on the Quartus Prime Lite?

Can anyone share some info about the AGILEX 3? Is it non-volatile? How many PLL's? Blocks? Memory?

I'm curious.

Regards
Robin Kleven

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  • Farabi's avatar
    Farabi
    1 year ago

    Hello,


    The features are not finalized yet, but below are the list of features will be available:


    1. PCIe Gen 3.0 x4
    2. 10G Ethernet HIP
    3. Hyperflex fabric ~380MHz
    4. Transceiver Tx/Rx 12.5 Gbps
    5. LVDS 1.25Gbps
    6. MIPI D-PHY 2.5Gbps
    7. HSIO
    8. HVIO
    9. Dual Cortex A55 @800Mhz
    10. LPDDR4
    11. SHA-384, ECDSA 256/384, AES-256, side channel attack resistance, cryptographic services, physical anti-tamper support
    12. and many more.


    Performance comparison - 1.8x better than Cyclone V FPGAs

    Power comparison - 50% lower than Cyclone V FPGAs


    regards,

    Farabi


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  • Farabi's avatar
    Farabi
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    1 year ago

    Hello,


    The features are not finalized yet, but below are the list of features will be available:


    1. PCIe Gen 3.0 x4
    2. 10G Ethernet HIP
    3. Hyperflex fabric ~380MHz
    4. Transceiver Tx/Rx 12.5 Gbps
    5. LVDS 1.25Gbps
    6. MIPI D-PHY 2.5Gbps
    7. HSIO
    8. HVIO
    9. Dual Cortex A55 @800Mhz
    10. LPDDR4
    11. SHA-384, ECDSA 256/384, AES-256, side channel attack resistance, cryptographic services, physical anti-tamper support
    12. and many more.


    Performance comparison - 1.8x better than Cyclone V FPGAs

    Power comparison - 50% lower than Cyclone V FPGAs


    regards,

    Farabi


    • jAlter's avatar
      jAlter
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      1 year ago

      Hi Farabi,

      Can you comment if there will be an Agilex 3 serie with non volatile configuration memory, to replace the MAX 10 family?

  • Farabi's avatar
    Farabi
    Icon for Regular Contributor rankRegular Contributor
    1 year ago

    Hello,


    Agilex3 is not meant to replace MAX10, Cyclone V and Cyclone 10. These device will continue to be available until 2040. Agilex3 will not have non-volatile memory like MAX10. Instead it will have ARM-A55 core.


    regards,

    Farabi


  • Farabi's avatar
    Farabi
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    1 year ago

    Hello,


    I have provided the answer, I will return this case to community back. If you have new question, please raise new ticket, we will be happy to help.


    regards,

    Farabi


  • sstrell's avatar
    sstrell
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    1 year ago

    It would be nice to have a new device with on-chip flash again, like MAX 10, but I doubt that's going to happen anytime soon, especially with the lifetime extension for those older devices.