Achronix Now Shipping 22nm Speedster22i FPGAs to Customers

Santa Clara, Calif., February 20, 2013 - Achronix Semiconductor Corporation announced today that it has begun shipping the industry-leading Speedster®22i HD1000 FPGA to customers.  Built on Intel’s advanced 22nm, 3-D Tri-Gate transistor technology, Speedster22i HD devices consume half the power and are half the cost of competitive high‑end FPGAs for targeted high bandwidth applications. They are the only FPGAs with a full suite of hardened interface IP including 10/40/100G Ethernet, 100Gbps Interlaken, PCI Express Gen1/2/3 and 2.133 Gbps DDR3 controllers.

The Speedster22i HD1000 is the first member of the Speedster22i family. It includes over 1 million effective LUTs, consisting of 700,000 programmable LUTs and 300,000 LUTs of additional functionality provided by the fixed-function hardened IP.  The device also integrates 86 Mbits of RAM, 960 programmable IO and 64 lanes of 12.75 Gbps SerDes.

“Speedster22i FPGAs address the high bandwidth and low latency requirements of high performance wireline, test and HPC applications,” said Robert Blake, President and CEO of Achronix. “The embedded hard IP blocks in the Speedster22i FPGAs not only simplify the design of high bandwidth applications, but also dramatically reduce the power and cost of the end solution.”

Speedster 22i FPGAs built on the most advanced process technology

Speedster22i devices are built in the United States using Intel’s production 22-nm process technology. Intel’s 22nm Tri-Gate transistors deliver higher performance and lower power consumption than traditional planar technology. Speedster22i FPGAs leverage Intel’s advanced 22nm process technology together with a rich set of communications-focused hard IPs to deliver FPGAs with the highest performance, lowest power and lowest cost for target high bandwidth applications.

The HD1000 incorporates substantial silicon-proven IP from Intel, dramatically improving product capabilities, while reducing design risk. Additionally, Achronix leverages Intel’s vertically integrated foundry offerings (wafer fabrication, device packaging, testing and production device qualification) that enable Achronix to focus on designing targeted FPGA solutions for high bandwidth applications.

“We are very excited to have Achronix as our first Intel Custom Foundry customer.” said Sunit Rikhi, Vice President, Technology & Manufacturing Group, General Manager, Intel® Custom Foundry.  “The delivery of the first Speedster 22i FPGAs is an important milestone in a multi-year strategic relationship with Achronix.”

HD1000 Development Kit

The Speedster22i HD1000 development kit includes a PCI Express form-factor, HD1000 development board, ACE software, programming pod and power supply. The kit supports development and prototyping of 100G Ethernet, Interlaken, PCI Express, DDR3 and SerDes. Customers can use the development board in a PC chassis using the PCI Express interface, or it can be used stand alone. Achronix also supplies a number of reference designs that demonstrate the capabilities of hardened interface protocols.

Product Availability

Engineering samples of the Speedster22i HD1000 are available today. The HD1000 development kit is available for purchase immediately at a price of $13,000, including ACE development software. The next device, Speedster22i HD680P is currently supported in ACE and will be available in Q2 2013. The HD1500 is the largest member of the Speedster22i family and will include 28Gbps SerDes. The HD1500 will be available at the end 2013.

About Achronix Semiconductor Corporation

Achronix is a privately held fabless corporation based in Santa Clara, California. Achronix builds application targeted field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) built on Intel’s (NASDAQ:INTC) 22nm, 3-D Tri-Gate transistor technology. Achronix ACE design tools include integrated support for Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) Synplify Pro. Achronix has sales offices and representatives in the United States, Europe, and China, and has a research and design office in Bangalore, India. Find out more at http://www.achronix.com.