Programmable logic specialist Efinix has introduced the launch of a brand new household of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), the Topaz line — optimized for efficiency in a low energy envelope and concentrating on direct deployment in mass-market gadgets, quite than serving as a prototyping platform for later transition to a fixed-feature chip.
“Topaz as soon as once more demonstrates Efinix’s management place available in the market,” boasts firm co-founded, chief government officer, and president Sammy Cheung of Efinix’s newest launch. “The household options the right mixture of efficiency and energy, delivering the clear technological benefit of the Efinix structure to the multi-billion-dollar, high-volume FPGA market and conventional customized silicon markets alike.”
Efinix has launched its Topaz FPGA household, constructed on its Exchangeable Logic and Routing (XLR) cell structure. (📷: Efinix)
The Topaz household is designed as an alternative choice to the corporate’s current Titanium line, constructed on the identical 16nm CMOS course of node however optimized for each energy effectivity and for mass-market deployment — that means Efinix envisions gadgets transport with a Topaz chip or two on-board, while not having to maneuver from FPGA to an application-specific built-in circuit (ASIC) as a part of a path to mass manufacturing.
“The Topaz line completely enhances the facility and performance-optimized Titanium line,” claims Efinix’s Mark Oliver. “Whereas Titanium finds a pure match inside the high-performance communications and power-efficient compute markets, Topaz satisfies the wants of high-volume and mainstream functions that want a cheap mix of efficiency and low energy consumption.”
The corporate says the brand new chips are appropriate for a variety of use-cases, together with pc imaginative and prescient programs. (📷: Efinix)
Options and specification fluctuate, as you’d anticipate, by mannequin, with the entry-level Tz50 boasting 52,160 logic parts, 2.4Mb RAM blocks, 34 general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) and 146 high-speed enter/output pins whereas the range-topping Tz325 options 326,080 logic parts, 19.22Mb RAM blocks, 181 GPIO and 235 high-speed IO pins.The Tz75, Tz100, Tz200, and Tz325 additionally profit from an on-board quad-core RISC-V processor, PCI Categorical Gen. 3 connectivity, as much as 4 every transmit and obtain MIPI D-PHY connections, and single- or dual-channel LPDDR4 RAM help.
Extra data on the brand new elements is offered on the Efinix web site; pricing had not been disclosed on the time of writing.