Agilex is a brand covering several families of

FPGA A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is a type of configurable integrated circuit that can be repeatedly programmed after manufacturing. FPGAs are a subset of logic devices referred to as programmable logic devices (PLDs). They consist of a ...

products developed by

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, and is the branding introduced in 2019 during the

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and Delaware General Corporation Law, incorporated in Delaware. Intel designs, manufactures, and sells computer compo ...

era. The initial family of Agilex FPGAs (now rebranded as Agilex 7) began shipping in 2019 and are built using Intel 10nm silicon process. Agilex FPGAs are typically programmed in

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s such as

VHDL VHDL (Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Program, VHSIC Hardware Description Language) is a hardware description language that can model the behavior and structure of Digital electronics, digital systems at multiple levels of abstraction, ran ...

Verilog Verilog, standardized as IEEE 1364, is a hardware description language (HDL) used to model electronic systems. It is most commonly used in the design and verification of digital circuits, with the highest level of abstraction being at the re ...

, and compiled using the Quartus Prime computer software. Higher level design languages, such as

SYCL SYCL (pronounced "sickle") is a higher-level programming model to improve programming productivity on various hardware accelerators. It is a single-source embedded domain-specific language ( eDSL) based on pure C++17. It is a standard develope ...

, are supported as well.

Product Families

Intel Agilex FPGAs initially focused on performance applications such as data center processing, but the brand has been expanded to include several new series of Agilex FPGAs which have different characteristics, such as lower power and lower logic densities, in order to fit an even wider range of applications. As a result, the Agilex brand is combined with a numerical suffix to organize various FPGA product series into different families of FPGAs and SoC FPGAs.

Agilex 9

The Agilex 9 family are FPGAs targeted at Direct RF applications and include wideband data converters with sample rates up to 64Gsps and medium-band data converters with hi-fidelity performance.

Agilex 7

The initial family of Agilex FPGAs and SoC FPGAs which began shipping in 2019 were rebranded as Agilex 7 in January 2023 as the Agilex brand was broadened to cover additional FPGA families by using a numerical suffix. Agilex 7 FPGAs are a family of high-performance FPGAs with a focus on delivering industry-leading logic fabric and I/O speeds and targeted at bandwidth- and compute-intensive applications. The Agilex 7 SoC FPGA variants include an

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Cortex-A53 quad core hard processor system. Agilex-5-fpga-e-series-065b-modular-board-wht-bg

Agilex 5

The Agilex 5 family are FPGAs and SoC FPGAs with lower power and logic densities than the Agilex 7 FPGA and are generally considered mid-range FPGAs. The Agilex 5 SoC FPGA variants include an ARM Cortex A76/A55 quad core hard processor system.

Agilex 3

The Agilex 3 family are power and cost optimized FPGAs that deliver relatively high performance for this class of FPGA. The Agilex 3 SoC FPGA variants offer an ARM Cortex A55 dual core hard processor system.

References

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