Altera - Arria 10 FPGAs support real-time high-speed airborne Ethernet interconnection technology

Altera announced that its real-time data transmission provider Silkan has selected its Arria 10 FPGA as its new deterministic real-time high-speed Ethernet interconnect technology. The Silkan CETRAC switch is a plug-and-play solution that uses Ethernet cables to connect key systems in the aerospace and defense (A & D) and instrumentation and control (I & C) markets. Its development purpose is to provide a secure connection between these airborne systems, low latency and fast information transfer without damaging any data. The solution also supports avionics applications that must meet design level assurance (DAL) A and B (the two highest safety levels in avionics). Altera Arria 10 enables Silkan to meet the IEEE802.3 standard for Ethernet through a single-chip programmable platform, achieve new levels of performance at a lower cost of ownership, and improve connection security and reliability. CETRAC switches can also support non-critical applications required in flight, thereby ensuring data integrity and low latency. CETRAC is also available as an IP core and can be embedded in a line replaceable unit (LRU), which is a modular component on an aircraft, ship or spacecraft. CETRAC is fully compatible with the company's Arion100 product, which is an integrated, industrial, real-time environment that provides complete virtualization for the system. "Our customers of avionics and military demand systems can provide ever-increasing performance to achieve safe and reliable communications, and Arria 10 enables our systems to meet the high safety standards required by avionics at a lower cost of ownership," Carsalade, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Silkan. With CETRAC, we will be able to provide customers with first-class innovation in the critical system Ethernet interconnection technology. " Ian Land, Altera, senior manager of the military, aerospace and government (MAG) business unit, “We are pleased that Arria 10 enables Silkan to enhance the performance of CETRAC, and this goal can be achieved through a single-chip platform that reduces footprint Area, "Arria 10 ’s demand has grown faster than any other product in Altera ’s history, and is now offering the performance that Silkan can demonstrate in its CETRAC real-time high-speed Ethernet interconnect technology. ” Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs provide the highest performance at 20nm and have a speed-level performance advantage compared to competing products. Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs consume 40% less power than previous generation FPGAs and SoCs, and are the only ones in the industry The hard floating point digital signal processing (DSP) module has a speed of up to 1,500 gigabit floating point operations (GFLOP) per second.