Altera’s Role In Acceleratingthe Internet of Things

Chris Balough

Senior Director, SoC Products

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

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 than20 countries

Leading supplier of FPGAs,CPLDs and SoCs

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Advanced Chip Development: Difficult ROI

65nm 40nm 28nm 20nm

$35 $52$88

$156$175

$260

$440

$780RevenueRequirement($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”

TotalDevelopmentCosts ($M)

Development Cost Source: IBS

FPGA Advantage: Aggregating Demand From Many Markets Allows Ongoing Investment in New Process Nodes

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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 FPGAProcess Node

Primary ASICProcess 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

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.

SoC Roadmap: Getting “Smarter” with ARM Cores

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Fea

ture

s &

Per

form

ance

1st Generation28 nm TSMC

1.05 GHz Dual ARM Cortex™-A9 MPCore™

2nd Generation20 nm TSMC

3rd Generation14 nm Intel Tri-Gate

Quad ARMCortex™-A53 ARMv8

Processor

1.5 GHz Dual ARMCortex™-A9 MPCore™

MoreComing

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Stratix 10 SoC: Altera’s Most Advanced Product Ever

QUAD 64-BIT PROCESSOR

ADVANCED TOOLS

1GHZ FPGA LOGIC

10 TFLOPS DSP

+

+

+

+ALTERA® SDK

FOROPENCL™ It’s huge. Imagine ARM’s most powerful

and technologically advanced 64-bits

processor built on Intel’s leading-edge

fabs. A duo that will be hard to beat.

Nathan Brookwood

Principal Analyst - Insight 64

Altera In Communications: Infrastructure EnablementAltera #1 FPGA In OTN; Data Center; Wireless Backhaul, Baseband, Radio

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= FPGA Application

Wireless Example: Escape Microwave Modem

Single-chip modem Altera Cyclone V FPGA:

flexibility, adaptability,fast time-to-market

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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

Communications Infrastructure Before IoT

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Client Devices

Data Centers

CommsInfrastructure

Impact of IoT: Large Number of New Devices

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ClientDevices

Data Centers

CommsInfrastructure

Impact of IoT: Infrastructure Capacity Must Expand

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ClientDevices

CommsInfrastructure

DataCenters

Altera SoCs, FPGAs Accelerating the Internet of Things

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SoC and FPGA-EnabledNetwork Infrastructure

SoC and FPGA-EnabledAccelerated Computing

SoC and FPGA-EnabledIoT Gateways

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Spotlight: FPGAs in the DataCenter

IBM Netezza 1000 Data Warehouse Appliance

17Source: 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 tohandle 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. “

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

Performance Per Watt Benchmarks

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PlatformPower

(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 10X

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

Performance Per Watt Benchmarks

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PlatformPower

(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 25X

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

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 ofImplementation

Best Performanceper Watt

FPGA

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

PowerSoCPowerSoC

PowerSoCPowerSoC

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

Thank YouThank YouChris Balough

Senior Director, SoC Products