Stratix IV passes Interlaken device interoperability testing

Altera (San Jose, Calif.) said Stratix IV GT FPGAs passed interoperability testing at 6.25-Gbps line rates. According to the company, Stratix IV GT devices are the industry's only Interlaken solution capable of supporting line rates of 10 Gbps.

Device interoperability testing validates Stratix IV FPGAs for chip-to-chip Interlaken interface and ensures they can be deployed for next-generation wireless and wireline infrastructure applications, Altera said.

Altera passed interoperability testing using a Stratix IV GT FPGA development board along with Altera's internally developed Interlaken intellectual property core, the company said. The IP core is compliant with the Interlaken Protocol Definition revision 1.2, the company said.

Altera said the Interlaken Alliance's device interoperability test included five chip vendors testing the connectivity between their components using the Interlaken protocol. Altera said it successfully demonstrated interoperation with all the participating ASSP vendors' solutions, including Cortina's CS1999 and CS3477 device families and PMC-Sierra's HyPHY 20G platform.

Interlaken is a scalable protocol specification for chip-to-chip packet transfers at rates scaling from 10Gb/s to 100Gb/s.