EP2S90F1508C4N
EP2S90F1508C4N - 90K LE Stratix II FPGA, 902 I/O, 1508-BGA | Intel
The Intel (formerly Altera) EP2S90F1508C4N is a high-density Stratix II Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) built on a 90 nm CMOS process, delivering 90,960 logic elements (LEs), 4,520,488 bits of embedded memory, and 4548 Logic Array Blocks (LABs) in a 1508-ball Flip-Chip BGA (FC-FBGA) package. It operates from a 1.2 V core supply with a maximum internal frequency of 711.24 MHz, and provides 902 user I/O pins for high-bandwidth parallel interfaces.
An FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) is a semiconductor device containing programmable logic blocks, interconnect, and I/O cells that can be configured post-manufacture to implement arbitrary digital circuits. Stratix II belongs to the high-performance FPGA family tier, sitting above Cyclone (cost-optimized) and below Stratix GX/GT (transceiver-equipped) variants. FPGAs occupy the same broad product category as ASICs, CPLDs, and microcontrollers, but offer unique advantages in parallelism, reconfigurability, and time-to-market for DSP, communications, and prototyping workloads.
Key features of the EP2S90F1508C4N include 12 dedicated PLLs (Phase-Locked Loops) for clock synthesis, up to 4 Mb of TriMatrix embedded memory distributed across MRAM, M512, and M4K blocks, dedicated DSP blocks for high-throughput arithmetic, and support for external memory interfaces including DDR, DDR2, SDRAM, QDRII, and RLDRAM II. The device family integrates high-speed serial I/O capability through dedicated DPA circuitry, and supports LVDS, LVPECL, and HSTL I/O standards with user-selectable drive strength from 2 mA to 24 mA.
The architecture combines Adaptive Logic Modules (ALMs) - each containing two 4-input LUTs, two programmable registers, and dedicated adder circuitry - with MultiTrack interconnect that delivers predictable timing closure at 90 nm node performance targets. Embedded memory blocks support true dual-port operation and mixed-width data paths, while DSP blocks deliver up to 36 x 36 bit multiplies per block at full pipeline speed.
Typical applications include high-speed digital signal processing (radar, beamforming, software-defined radio), ASIC prototyping, telecommunications infrastructure (SONET/SDH, OTN framers), high-performance computing accelerators, video processing pipelines, and military/aerospace embedded systems. Designers select this part when logic density above 70K LEs is required together with abundant embedded memory and DSP resources in a single device.
When designing with this device, pay close attention to power supply decoupling (a Stratix II FPGA typically requires multiple 1.2 V, 2.5 V, and 3.3 V rails with strict sequencing requirements), thermal management (the 1508-ball FCBGA exposes a thermal pad that must be soldered to a properly sized PCB copper pour), and signal integrity on 902 simultaneously-switching outputs (SSO analysis is mandatory). Quartus II is the supported design toolchain.
This page synthesizes distributor pricing, drop-in same-package alternatives within the Stratix II family, and practical design notes not found in the manufacturer datasheet - giving engineers a faster sourcing and evaluation workflow.
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