Reducing Total System Cost with Low-Power 28 nm FPGAs

When building systems for high-volume applications, it is very important to keep costs in check. There are several dimensions that affect total cost of ownership beyond the price per part. These include the power demands of the silicon, total bill of materials (BOM) cost, and the productivity of the engineers who design and test the system. It is important to choose an FPGA vendor that has considered all the dimensions of system cost that can factor into a product design cycle. Cyclone® V FPGAs help designers reduce total system cost in a number of ways. Designers benefit not only from TSMC’s 28 nm Low Power (28LP) manufacturing process, but also from the architectural decisions that have gone into the Cyclone V device family and the array of powerful productivity-enhancing tools featured in Intel's design tool ecosystem. With Cyclone V FPGAs, customers not only enjoy the lowest cost of ownership in the industry, but the widest array of low-cost parts available—from 25K logic elements (LE) to 301K LEs—and the only 28 nm solution under 100K LEs.