Altera Announces Agilex 2X, a Complete FPGA and SoC Portfolio(www.altera.com)

25 pointsby gmays4 hours ago5 comments

Foobar85683 hours ago
> Engineering sample silicon for Agilex 27 FPGAs is expected in the second half of 2027.
That's not even a paper launch at this stage.
- YakBizzarro5 minutes ago
  quite typical with FPGAs. Plus this is the general public announcement. Key customers likely already have samples since a while
jpgvman hour ago
Hopefully the hard NOC is good this time around. The limitations of the previous series made it mostly useless.
snvzz2 hours ago
Likely shipping w/o the proper documentation to enable nextpnr and similar tools, as it's tradition in altera.
I will always choose the vendors that do things properly, when they're even an option.
- supaflybanzai2 hours ago
  Like which ones? Honest question.
  - dlcarrier39 minutes ago
    I think Efinix did something internally, with Yosys.
  - IshKebaban hour ago
    There aren't any open commercial FPGAs as far as I know. Some have had their bitstream formats reverse engineered though.
    We're starting to see open source FPGAs but they are miniscule: https://tinytapeout.com/chips/ttihp26a/tt_um_fabulous_ihp_26...
  - snvzzan hour ago
    Not many options unfortunately. Today that's GateMate.
    Next best thing? The mature reverse-engineered families nextpnr[0] supports.
    0. https://github.com/YosysHQ/nextpnrhttps://github.com/YosysHQ...
    duskwuffan hour ago
    > Not many options unfortunately. Today that's GateMate.
    And that's not a great option, frankly. GateMate is a strange design with major performance issues, like the lack of a dedicated clock network.
logicallee2 hours ago
Fantastic chip, I love everything about this announcement.
omegaSigma952 hours ago
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