Altera announced it has started shipping its 28-nm Arria V FPGAs. The devices are available with 10.3125-Gbps transceiver technology. The Arria V devices are the second family to ship from the company’s 28-nm product portfolio following the shipment of its Stratix V family in early 2011. The family is developed on TSMC’s 28-nm Low-Power (28LP) process. Arria V family is optimized for applications such as remote radio units, in-studio mixers, and 10G/40G linecards.

The four family variants GX, GT, SX and ST allow engineers to choose the device that meets their exact needs, with densities up to 503K logic elements (LEs), transceivers that operate up to 10.3125 Gbps, and an optional embedded dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor. Software support is available now and engineering samples of Altera’s Arria V FPGAs are shipping today.