EP1C12Q240C6NAA
EP1C12Q240C6NAA - Cyclone FPGA 12060 LE 173 I/O | Intel
The Intel EP1C12Q240C6NAA is a Cyclone-family Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) that provides 12,060 logic elements, 239,616 RAM bits, and 173 user I/O pins in a 240-pin BFQFP package. The part is the commercial-grade, -6 speed-grade ordering variant of the EP1C12 density in the 240Q plastic package, making it suitable for mid-density logic, control, and I/O-intensive applications.
An FPGA is a reconfigurable integrated circuit whose logic fabric consists of programmable logic elements, routing resources, and input/output blocks. Unlike a microcontroller that executes sequential instructions, an FPGA implements digital functions as parallel dedicated hardware, with its behavior defined by a configuration bitstream loaded after power-up. In the product hierarchy, an FPGA is a type of programmable logic device, which is itself a class of configurable digital integrated circuit. For embedded-systems engineers, the choice between FPGA, CPLD, MCU, and ASIC depends on required logic density, interface flexibility, time-to-market, and production volume.
Verified distributor data for EP1C12Q240C6NAA lists 12,060 logic elements/cells, 239,616 RAM bits, and 173 user I/O; the device is supplied in a 240-BFQFP, offered with tray packaging, and has an MSL rating of 3 (168 hours). Additional family-level comparison data identifies the EP1C12Q240 family as a 130nm FPGA with a 1.5V core supply, allowing a predictable low-voltage core rail on the PCB while maintaining multiple independent I/O bank supplies for interface flexibility.
The Cyclone architecture balances logic capacity, memory, and I/O: 12,060 logic elements can hold soft processors, state machines, parallel data paths, or system glue logic, while the embedded RAM blocks can implement FIFOs, line buffers, small packet memories, and look-up tables. The 173 user I/O pins, combined with the 240-pin package pinout, support several parallel buses and byte-wide interfaces. Because the device is an SRAM-based FPGA, it must be configured at power-up from a configuration EEPROM, flash memory, or an external processor; production boards therefore need a configuration source in addition to the FPGA itself.
Typical applications include industrial motor and inverter control, production-machine logic, video line capture and pixel preprocessing, and protocol bridging between parallel and serial buses. The 240-pin QFP package is easier to route on lower-layer-count boards than large ball-grid-array FPGAs, making the device attractive for compact industrial control boards that still require a significant amount of programmable logic.
Designers should pay close attention to the multiple power pins: 1.5V core pins, I/O bank supply pins, and configuration pins should all be decoupled close to the package. On a QFP of this size, placing a 0.1uF ceramic capacitor near each power pin and adding bulk capacitance around the package is a practical starting point. I/O bank selection and pin assignment should be performed early in the design with the FPGA vendor pin planning tools to reduce layout risk.
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