EP2C70F896C7
EP2C70F896C7 - Cyclone II FPGA 68K LE 622 I/O 896-FBGA | Intel
The Intel (formerly Altera) EP2C70F896C7 is a member of the Cyclone II FPGA family built on a 90 nm low-k dielectric CMOS process, offering 68,416 logic elements, 1,152,000 bits of embedded RAM, and 622 user I/O pins in a 896-ball FineLine BGA package. The 'C7' speed grade designates the commercial temperature range with the slowest speed bin, while the 'F896' suffix marks the 896-pin FBGA package. Cyclone II is positioned as a low-cost, high-volume programmable logic family targeting cost-sensitive applications where complex FPGAs are over-specified.
A Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is a semiconductor device containing an array of configurable logic blocks (CLBs), programmable interconnects, and dedicated hardware blocks such as multipliers and memory. FPGAs sit in the programmable logic hierarchy below ASICs and below their higher-end kin (Stratix, Arria, Cyclone V/10) for cost-optimized designs. Cyclone II devices are SRAM-based, meaning the configuration bitstream is loaded from an external flash at each power-up and can be re-programmed in-system indefinitely.
Key features include 68,416 logic elements distributed across four- and six-input look-up tables (LUTs), 4,608 Kbits of M4K embedded memory blocks supporting true dual-port operation with parity bits, 150 embedded 18 x 18 multipliers for DSP operations, and 16 global clock networks with up to four PLLs per device. Each I/O pin supports multiple I/O standards including LVTTL, LVCMOS, PCI, SSTL, HSTL, LVDS, and RSDS. The configuration interface supports JTAG (IEEE Std 1149.1), Passive Serial (PS), Fast Passive Parallel (FPP), and Active Serial (AS) modes via the dedicated configuration pins.
Cyclone II devices internally operate at 1.2 V core supply with separate VCCIO banks for I/O voltage flexibility, supporting 1.5 V, 1.8 V, 2.5 V, and 3.3 V interfacing. The 150 18 x 18 multipliers can be combined into larger multiplier structures such as 36 x 36 signed multipliers, enabling FIR filters, FFT butterflies, and image-processing pipelines without consuming general-purpose logic. PLLs provide clock multiplication, division, phase shifting, and duty-cycle control, simplifying board-level clock tree design.
Typical applications include industrial motor control and servo drives, video surveillance and image processing, automotive infotainment, telecommunications line cards, low-cost prototyping of ASICs, and embedded control with soft processors such as Nios II. The 896-FBGA package with 622 user I/Os suits designs that demand high off-chip bandwidth, such as DDR/DDR2 memory controllers, video frame buffers, and multi-channel data acquisition. Cyclone II is a mature family often chosen for long-life-cycle industrial, medical, and military programs.
When designing with this part, use the Quartus II design software (version 13.0 sp1 or earlier is the last fully-supported release). Plan power sequencing carefully because Cyclone II requires VCCINT (1.2 V) and VCCIO banks to ramp within datasheet-specified monotonicity, and confirm configuration mode and flash device selection before layout. Always use IBIS models for signal-integrity simulation of DDR2/LVDS links.
This page consolidates distributor pricing, drop-in package-equivalent parts, and practical Quartus II design notes that complement the official Altera Cyclone II handbook.
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