FPGAs are used throughout communications infrastructure and data centers for flexibility, adaptability, and faster time-to-market. Altera's new SoC devices combine FPGAs and ARM processors, making networks and data centers more ready to support the growing Internet of Things. The explosive growth of IoT devices is driving new requirements for communications infrastructure and data centers. Altera's newest FPGAs and SoCs will help enable these infrastructures to support the Internet of Things through increased flexibility and performance.

1. Altera’s Role In Accelerating
the Internet of Things
Chris Balough
Senior Director, SoC Products

2. Key Points
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FPGAs are used throughout the communications infrastructure
for flexibility, adaptability and faster time-to-market
Altera’s new SoC devices combine FPGA and ARM, making the network
more IoT-ready: intelligently flexible and adaptable
Explosive growth of IoT devices driving substantial new requirements
for the communications and datacenter infrastructure
Altera’s newest FPGAs and SoCs will help enable infrastructure
advancements to be IoT-ready
FPGAs are widening the technology gap vs. ASICs and ASSPs

3. Altera Overview
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 Headquartered in Silicon Valley,
California; founded in 1983
 Industry’s first reprogrammable
logic semiconductors
 $1.73 billion in 2013 sales
 3,000 employees in more than
20 countries
 Leading supplier of FPGAs,
CPLDs and SoCs

4. Advanced Chip Development: Difficult ROI
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65nm 40nm 28nm 20nm
$35 $52
$88
$156$175
$260
$440
$780
Revenue
Requirement
($M)
(to maintain R&D
costs at 20% of
Revenue)
 Stay on lagging node  less competitive for design wins
 Move to advanced node  higher ROI hurdle“A Difficult Choice”
Total
Development
Costs ($M)


Development Cost Source: IBS
FPGAAdvantage: Aggregating Demand From Many Markets
Allows Ongoing Investment in New Process Nodes

5. 5
FPGAs: Growing Gap vs. ASIC/ASSP
180 nm
130 nm
90 nm
45 nm
180 nm
130 nm
90 nm
65 nm
45 nm
28 nm
20 nm
Primary FPGA
Process Node
Primary ASIC
Process Node
Source: Altera; data applies to new design starts.
40 nm 40 nm
32 nm 32 nm
28 nm
22 nm
65 nm
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
TECHNOLOGY
GAP

6. Generation 10 – A Complete Portfolio of SoCs and FPGAs
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Intel 14 nm Tri-gateTSMC 20 nm
High EndMid RangeHigh Volume
To be announced.

7. SoC Roadmap: Getting “Smarter” with ARM Cores
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Features&Performance
1st Generation
28 nm TSMC
1.05 GHz Dual
ARM Cortex™-A9 MPCore™
2nd Generation
20 nm TSMC
3rd Generation
14 nm Intel Tri-Gate
Quad ARM
Cortex™-A53 ARMv8
Processor
1.5 GHz Dual ARM
Cortex™-A9 MPCore™
More
Coming

8. Stratix 10 SoC: Altera’s Most Advanced Product Ever
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QUAD 64-BIT PROCESSOR
ADVANCED TOOLS
1GHZ FPGA LOGIC
10 TFLOPS DSP
+
+
+
+
ALTERA®
SDK
FOR
OPENCL™

9. Altera In Communications: Infrastructure Enablement
Altera #1 FPGA In OTN; Data Center; Wireless Backhaul, Baseband, Radio
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= FPGA Application

10. Wireless Example: Escape Microwave Modem
 Single-chip modem
 Altera Cyclone V FPGA:
flexibility, adaptability,
fast time-to-market
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11. Wireline Example: 100G Multi-Service Platform Card
 Leading communications equipment vendor using Altera FPGA to
deliver highly integrated Multi-Service Platform
 FPGA allows flexibility, adaptability, and time-to-market
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PCB
Broadcom
BCM88650
Switching
Solution
Altera
Stratix V
FPGA
 DMA engines
 Search Engine
 Acceleration
 Load balance
 Policies, Stats
Micron
RLDRAM3
Search
Engine
Interlaken
Intel
PCIe x8
Intel
PCIe x8
Intel
PCIe x8
Intel
PCIe x8
Micron
RLDRAM3
Search
Engine

12. Communications Infrastructure Before IoT
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Client
Devices
Data
Centers
Comms
Infrastructure

13. Impact of IoT: Large Number of New Devices
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Client
Devices
Data
Centers
Comms
Infrastructure

14. Impact of IoT: Infrastructure Capacity Must Expand
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Client
Devices
Comms
Infrastructure
Data
Centers

15. Altera SoCs, FPGAs Accelerating the Internet of Things
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SoC and FPGA-Enabled
Network Infrastructure
SoC and FPGA-Enabled
Accelerated Computing
SoC and FPGA-Enabled
IoT Gateways
+

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Spotlight: FPGAs in the DataCenter

17. IBM Netezza 1000 Data Warehouse Appliance
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Source: IBM Netezza 1000 Datasheet and “Teradata and IBM PureData System for Analytics Compared” White Paper from IBM.com
“IBM Netezza 1000 uses Field Programmable Gate Arrays
(or FPGAs) which have been programmed specifically to
handle large volumes of data very efficiently.
These FPGAs … removes I/O bottlenecks … creating a
significant turbocharger effect on system performance.”
“The visibility engine maintains …
compliance at streaming speeds. All
this work, … is achieved in an energy
efficient FPGA measuring just one
square inch. “

18. FPGAs can greatly enhance CPU-based data center processing by
accelerating algorithms and minimizing bottlenecks
FPGAs Increase Efficiency in the Data Center
 Massively parallel architecture
Has 10X-100X the number of computational units
Enables pipelined designs that perform multiple /
different instructions in a single clock cycle
Better localized memory avoids bottlenecks
 Programmability that enables
application-specific accelerators
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10X+ increase in performance per watt
~1M Logic Elements
2,660 20-kbit Memory
Blocks
~2000 DSP Blocks
840 Programmable
I/O Blocks
Stratix V Architecture
Diversity of applications make ASSPs and ASICs impractical

19. Performance Per Watt Benchmarks
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Platform
Power
(W)
Performance
(MT/sec)
Performance
/ Power
(MT/sec/W)
Intel Xeon
(w3690)
130 2070 15.92
nVidia Tesla
(C2075)
215 3240 15.07
Altera
FPGA
Accelerator
25 3602 144.08
Search – Unstructured Data Analytics (Document Filtering / Bloom Filter)
Source: Altera benchmarks; MT/sec = Million terms per second
~10X or more improvement in performance per watt

20. Performance Per Watt Benchmarks
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Platform
Power
(W)
Performance
(MSIM/sec)
Performance
/ Power
(MSIM/sec/W)
Intel Xeon
(w3690)
130 32 0.25
nVidia Tesla
(C2075)
215 63 0.29
Altera
FPGA
Accelerator
25 170 7.40
Financial Modeling – (Option pricing, Monte Carlo Simulation/Heston model)
Source: Altera benchmarks; MSIM/sec = Million simulations per second
~10X or more improvement in performance per watt

21. OpenCL
Making FPGAs “Programmer-friendly”
 Open, royalty-free standard for parallel programming
 Altera is first and only FPGA supplier with proven OpenCL capability
 Development and evaluation at…
4 of the top 6 largest server suppliers
3 of the top 5 largest investment banks
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HDL code
HW Engineers
C-based code
SW Developers
CPU GPU Ease of
Implementation
Best Performance
per Watt
FPGA

22. Stratix 10 Impact On Data Centers
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 Faster data processing
2X searches, 2X transactions, 2X video operations
 Lower energy cost
>10X performance per watt improvement vs. alternatives
More servers in a rack
High speed, high-end FPGAs offer strategic
differentiation in data center market
PowerSoC
PowerSoC
PowerSoC
PowerSoC

23. Summary
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FPGAs are used throughout the communications infrastructure
for flexibility, adaptability and faster time-to-market
Altera’s new SoC devices combine FPGA and ARM, making the network
more IoT-ready: intelligently flexible and adaptable
Explosive growth of IoT devices driving substantial new requirements
for the communications and datacenter infrastructure
Altera’s newest FPGAs and SoCs will help enable infrastructure
advancements to be IoT-ready
FPGAs are widening the technology gap vs. ASICs and ASSPs

24. Thank YouThank You
Chris Balough
Senior Director, SoC Products