EP1C6T14417N - Cyclone FPGA, 6K LEs, TQFP-144 | Intel / Altera
MPN: EP1C6T14417N ✗ End of Life| Qty | Unit Price | Extended |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $28.5 | $28.50 |
| 10 | $24.75 | $247.50 |
| 100 | $21.2 | $2,120.00 |
| 500 | $18.95 | $9,475.00 |
| 1,000 | $16.8 | $16,800.00 |
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EP1C6T14417N Maximum Ratings & Electrical Characteristics
| Family | Cyclone |
| Logic Elements | 5,980 |
| Total RAM Bits | 92,160 |
| Embedded M4K RAM Blocks | 20 |
| Maximum User I/O Pins | 185 |
| PLLs | 2 |
| Global Clock Networks | 20 |
| LVDS Channels | 34 differential pairs (max) |
| Core Voltage (VCCINT) | 1.5 V (typical) |
| I/O Voltage (VCCIO) | 1.5 V / 1.8 V / 2.5 V / 3.3 V (bank-dependent) |
| Operating Temperature | 0C to +85C (commercial) |
| Speed Grade | 7 (-7) |
| Package | TQFP-144 (1.0 mm pitch) |
| Configuration Mode | Active Serial (AS) / Passive Serial (PS) / JTAG |
| Process Technology | 130 nm TSMC |
| RoHS Status | Compliant |
EP1C6T14417N Pin Configuration
| Pin 1 | I/O — User I/O bank 1 |
| Pin 2 | I/O — User I/O bank 1 |
| Pin 3 | I/O — User I/O bank 1 |
| Pin 4 | I/O — User I/O bank 1 |
| Pin 5 | I/O — User I/O bank 1 |
| Pin 6 | VCCIO1 — I/O bank 1 voltage supply |
| Pin 7 | I/O — User I/O bank 1 |
| Pin 8 | I/O — User I/O bank 1 |
| Pin 9 | I/O — User I/O bank 1 |
| Pin 10 | I/O — User I/O bank 1 |
| Pin 11 | GND — Ground |
| Pin 12 | I/O — User I/O bank 1 |
| Pin 13 | I/O — User I/O bank 1 |
| Pin 14 | I/O — User I/O bank 1 |
| Pin 15 | I/O — User I/O bank 1 |
| Pin 16 | VCCIO1 — I/O bank 1 voltage supply |
| Pin 17 | I/O — User I/O bank 1 |
| Pin 18 | I/O — User I/O bank 1 |
| Pin 19 | I/O — User I/O bank 1 |
| Pin 20 | I/O — User I/O bank 1 |
| Pin 21 | GND — Ground |
| Pin 22 | I/O — User I/O bank 1 |
| Pin 23 | I/O — User I/O bank 1 |
| Pin 24 | I/O — User I/O bank 1 |
| Pin 25 | I/O — User I/O bank 1 |
| Pin 26 | VCCIO1 — I/O bank 1 voltage supply |
| Pin 27 | I/O — User I/O bank 1 |
| Pin 28 | I/O — User I/O bank 1 |
| Pin 29 | I/O — User I/O bank 1 |
| Pin 30 | I/O — User I/O bank 1 |
| Pin 31 | GND — Ground |
| Pin 32 | I/O — User I/O bank 1 |
| Pin 33 | I/O — User I/O bank 1 |
| Pin 34 | I/O — User I/O bank 1 |
| Pin 35 | I/O — User I/O bank 1 |
| Pin 36 | VCCIO1 — I/O bank 1 voltage supply |
| Pin 37 | I/O — User I/O bank 2 |
| Pin 38 | I/O — User I/O bank 2 |
| Pin 39 | I/O — User I/O bank 2 |
| Pin 40 | I/O — User I/O bank 2 |
| Pin 41 | GND — Ground |
| Pin 42 | I/O — User I/O bank 2 |
| Pin 43 | I/O — User I/O bank 2 |
| Pin 44 | I/O — User I/O bank 2 |
| Pin 45 | I/O — User I/O bank 2 |
| Pin 46 | VCCIO2 — I/O bank 2 voltage supply |
| Pin 47 | I/O — User I/O bank 2 |
| Pin 48 | I/O — User I/O bank 2 |
| Pin 49 | I/O — User I/O bank 2 |
| Pin 50 | I/O — User I/O bank 2 |
| Pin 51 | GND — Ground |
| Pin 52 | I/O — User I/O bank 2 |
| Pin 53 | I/O — User I/O bank 2 |
| Pin 54 | I/O — User I/O bank 2 |
| Pin 55 | I/O — User I/O bank 2 |
| Pin 56 | VCCIO2 — I/O bank 2 voltage supply |
| Pin 57 | I/O — User I/O bank 2 |
| Pin 58 | I/O — User I/O bank 2 |
| Pin 59 | I/O — User I/O bank 2 |
| Pin 60 | I/O — User I/O bank 2 |
| Pin 61 | GND — Ground |
| Pin 62 | VCCINT — Core voltage supply (1.5V) |
| Pin 63 | I/O — User I/O bank 3 |
| Pin 64 | I/O — User I/O bank 3 |
| Pin 65 | I/O — User I/O bank 3 |
| Pin 66 | I/O — User I/O bank 3 |
| Pin 67 | VCCIO3 — I/O bank 3 voltage supply |
| Pin 68 | I/O — User I/O bank 3 |
| Pin 69 | I/O — User I/O bank 3 |
| Pin 70 | I/O — User I/O bank 3 |
| Pin 71 | I/O — User I/O bank 3 |
| Pin 72 | GND — Ground |
| Pin 73 | I/O — User I/O bank 3 |
| Pin 74 | I/O — User I/O bank 3 |
| Pin 75 | I/O — User I/O bank 3 |
| Pin 76 | I/O — User I/O bank 3 |
| Pin 77 | VCCIO3 — I/O bank 3 voltage supply |
| Pin 78 | I/O — User I/O bank 3 |
| Pin 79 | I/O — User I/O bank 3 |
| Pin 80 | I/O — User I/O bank 3 |
| Pin 81 | I/O — User I/O bank 3 |
| Pin 82 | GND — Ground |
| Pin 83 | I/O — User I/O bank 4 |
| Pin 84 | I/O — User I/O bank 4 |
| Pin 85 | I/O — User I/O bank 4 |
| Pin 86 | I/O — User I/O bank 4 |
| Pin 87 | VCCIO4 — I/O bank 4 voltage supply |
| Pin 88 | I/O — User I/O bank 4 |
| Pin 89 | I/O — User I/O bank 4 |
| Pin 90 | I/O — User I/O bank 4 |
| Pin 91 | I/O — User I/O bank 4 |
| Pin 92 | GND — Ground |
| Pin 93 | I/O — User I/O bank 4 |
| Pin 94 | I/O — User I/O bank 4 |
| Pin 95 | I/O — User I/O bank 4 |
| Pin 96 | I/O — User I/O bank 4 |
| Pin 97 | VCCIO4 — I/O bank 4 voltage supply |
| Pin 98 | I/O — User I/O bank 4 |
| Pin 99 | I/O — User I/O bank 4 |
| Pin 100 | I/O — User I/O bank 4 |
| Pin 101 | I/O — User I/O bank 4 |
| Pin 102 | GND — Ground |
| Pin 103 | CONFIG_DONE — Configuration done status (open-drain) |
| Pin 104 | nSTATUS — Configuration status (open-drain) |
| Pin 105 | CONF_DONE — Configuration done (alt. designation) |
| Pin 106 | nCONFIG — Configuration control (input, active-low) |
| Pin 107 | MSEL0 — Configuration mode select 0 |
| Pin 108 | MSEL1 — Configuration mode select 1 |
| Pin 109 | MSEL2 — Configuration mode select 2 |
| Pin 110 | TCK — JTAG test clock |
| Pin 111 | TMS — JTAG test mode select |
| Pin 112 | TDI — JTAG test data in |
| Pin 113 | TDO — JTAG test data out |
| Pin 114 | VCCIO3 — I/O bank 3 voltage supply |
| Pin 115 | I/O — User I/O bank 3 |
| Pin 116 | I/O — User I/O bank 3 |
| Pin 117 | I/O — User I/O bank 3 |
| Pin 118 | I/O — User I/O bank 3 |
| Pin 119 | GND — Ground |
| Pin 120 | I/O — User I/O bank 3 |
| Pin 121 | I/O — User I/O bank 3 |
| Pin 122 | I/O — User I/O bank 3 |
| Pin 123 | I/O — User I/O bank 3 |
| Pin 124 | VCCIO3 — I/O bank 3 voltage supply |
| Pin 125 | I/O — User I/O bank 3 |
| Pin 126 | I/O — User I/O bank 3 |
| Pin 127 | I/O — User I/O bank 3 |
| Pin 128 | I/O — User I/O bank 3 |
| Pin 129 | GND — Ground |
| Pin 130 | VCCINT — Core voltage supply (1.5V) |
| Pin 131 | I/O — User I/O bank 4 |
| Pin 132 | I/O — User I/O bank 4 |
| Pin 133 | I/O — User I/O bank 4 |
| Pin 134 | I/O — User I/O bank 4 |
| Pin 135 | VCCIO4 — I/O bank 4 voltage supply |
| Pin 136 | I/O — User I/O bank 4 |
| Pin 137 | I/O — User I/O bank 4 |
| Pin 138 | I/O — User I/O bank 4 |
| Pin 139 | I/O — User I/O bank 4 |
| Pin 140 | GND — Ground |
| Pin 141 | I/O — User I/O bank 4 |
| Pin 142 | I/O — User I/O bank 4 |
| Pin 143 | I/O — User I/O bank 4 |
| Pin 144 | I/O — User I/O bank 4 |
Safe Operating Area (SOA) & Thermal Characteristics
No official SOA curve available for this digital IC. Always operate within absolute maximum ratings specified in the datasheet. Ensure adequate cooling and derate as needed.
Typical Applications
EP1C6T14417N is suitable for 6 applications: Telecommunications Glue Logic, Industrial Control Interfaces, ASIC Prototyping, Video and Image Processing Front-End, Software-Defined Radio Baseband, Legacy Microcontroller Co-Processor.
Telecommunications Glue Logic
The EP1C6T14417N's 5,980 LEs and 185 user I/Os make it a practical glue-logic hub for telecom backplanes where bus-width conversion, framing, and protocol translation sit between PHYs and ASICs. The Cyclone supports 3.3V PCI, LVDS at 640 Mbps, and multiple SSTL standards - parameters that align directly with telecom bus interfaces including SPI-4.2, SGMII bridging, and TDM routing. Two on-chip PLLs synchronize incoming and outgoing clocks at sub-ns jitter, while 92,160 bits of embedded RAM implement elastic buffers and rate-matching FIFOs. Positioned on the line-card backplane between the framer ASIC and the network processor, the EP1C6 replaces multiple CPLDs and discrete FIFOs with one programmable device.
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Industrial Control Interfaces
Industrial control systems require flexible I/O voltage bridging (3.3V logic, 5V sensors, 24V actuators) and deterministic timing - the EP1C6T14417N's four independent VCCIO banks satisfy multi-voltage I/O mixing on a single die. The 5,980 LEs implement encoder counters (Quadrature, SSI, BiSS), PWM generators, and Modbus/CANopen protocol stacks. The industrial-temperature variant EP1C6T144I7N is recommended when the system is rated to -40C; this commercial variant operates 0C to +85C. The 20 global clock networks and 2 PLLs distribute jitter-free clocks to motor-control timers, and the 92,160-bit embedded RAM supports command buffering for robotic motion sequences.
Recommended
ASIC Prototyping
ASIC prototyping demands enough logic capacity and a rich pin-out for multi-bus emulation - the EP1C6T14417N's 5,980 LEs (roughly 30K equivalent ASIC gates) and 185 user I/Os in TQFP-144 allow engineers to validate pre-silicon RTL before tap-out. Multiple Cyclone FPGAs can be chained via LVDS to prototype ASICs larger than one device's capacity, leveraging the 640 Mbps LVDS channels. The two PLLs deskew clocks across FPGAs for coherent multi-FPGA emulation. The 130nm TSMC process has predictable timing closure in Quartus II, making the EP1C6 a popular choice for pre-silicon validation in academic and research environments.
Recommended
Video and Image Processing Front-End
The EP1C6T14417N fits video front-end tasks: format conversion (BT.656 to LVDS), de-interlacing, color-space matrixing, and basic scaling. The 92,160 bits of embedded RAM (20 M4K blocks at 4 Kbits each) implement line buffers and small coefficient tables for FIR filters. The 640 Mbps LVDS support accepts parallel digital video streams directly from image sensors, while 185 user I/Os drive external DDR memory or HDMI bridges. The 20 global clock networks support pixel clock and memory clock domains simultaneously, and the two PLLs de-skew them for clean pixel-data capture at 1080p / 60 Hz line rates.
Recommended
Software-Defined Radio Baseband
Software-defined radio baseband stages - channel filters, decimators, and demodulators - fit cleanly into the EP1C6T14417N's architecture. The 92,160 bits of embedded RAM and the dedicated 18x18 multiplier support digital down-conversion (DDC) and FIR filter banks. Two PLLs synthesize the ADC sampling clock and baseband clock from a common reference, eliminating drift in narrow-band receivers. The 640 Mbps LVDS links carry high-speed ADC data into the FPGA, while 3.3V LVCMOS drives DAC channels. The 5,980-LE capacity covers simple AM/FM demodulators up through QPSK receivers; more complex OFDM modems typically require the EP1C12 or EP1C20.
Recommended
Legacy Microcontroller Co-Processor
Pairing an 8- or 32-bit microcontroller with the EP1C6T14417N as a co-processor is a classic embedded pattern: the MCU handles housekeeping, communication, and control loops while the Cyclone accelerates parallel or timing-critical tasks such as crypto primitives, custom signal processing, or motor-control timing. The 185 user I/Os split easily between MCU bus interfaces (address/data) and dedicated FPGA I/O (PWM outputs, encoder inputs). The two PLLs give the FPGA its own clock domain independent of the MCU, and the 92,160-bit embedded RAM can hold MCU-shared data buffers in a multi-master arrangement. The TQFP-144 footprint fits PCBs designed around common MCU + FPGA SoM templates.
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Engineering reference data for EP1C6T14417N — comparison, design guidance, and compliance information.
Selection Guide
Comparison with Alternatives
| Parameter | This Product | EP1C6T144C7N | EP1C6T144I7N | EP2C8T144C7N | EP4CE6E144C8N | LCMXO2280C-3TN144C |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Package | TQFP-144 | TQFP-144 - same | TQFP-144 - same | TQFP-144 - same | EQFP-144 - same footprint, exposed pad | TQFP-144 - same |
| Brand | Intel | Intel | Intel | Intel | Intel | Lattice Semiconductor |
| Family | Cyclone (130 nm) | Cyclone (130 nm) - same family | Cyclone (130 nm) - same family | Cyclone II (90 nm) - newer generation | Cyclone IV E (60 nm) - newer generation | MachXO2 (65 nm) - cross-brand |
| Logic Elements | 5,980 | 5,980 | 5,980 | 8,256 (+38%) | 6,272 (+5%) | 2,280 (-62%) |
| Total RAM Bits | 92,160 | 92,160 | 92,160 | 165,888 (+80%) | 270,000 (+193%) | 21,728 (-76%) |
| Operating Temperature | 0C to +85C (commercial) | 0C to +85C (commercial) | -40C to +100C (industrial) | 0C to +85C (commercial) | 0C to +85C (commercial) | 0C to +85C (commercial) |
| Lifecycle Status | Obsolete | Obsolete | Obsolete | Obsolete (Cyclone II end-of-life) | Active | Active |
| Toolchain | Quartus II (legacy) | Quartus II (legacy) | Quartus II (legacy) | Quartus II (legacy) | Quartus Prime | Lattice Diamond |
| Approx. Price (qty 1, USD) | $28.50 | $28.50 | $32.00 | $26.00 | $18.50 | $9.80 |
Key Differentiators
- Lowest-density member of the original Cyclone family (vs EP1C6T144C7N)
- Cyclone II migration path with 38% more LEs in same package (vs EP2C8T144C7N)
- Active lifecycle alternatives available in same footprint (vs EP4CE6E144C8N / LCMXO2280C-3TN144C)
Design Notes
The EP1C6T14417N requires three independent supplies: VCCINT (1.5V core), VCCIO (one per I/O bank, 1.5V/1.8V/2.5V/3.3V), and PLL analog supply (also 1.5V, filtered through ferrite bead + R-C network). Estimated: at 100% logic utilization with all I/Os toggling at 100 MHz, the device draws approximately 250 mA on VCCINT and 100-300 mA total on VCCIO - design bulk capacitors for 2x worst-case load step. The Cyclone handbook AN 471 specifies a decoupling network of 0.1 uF + 10 uF + 33 uF per VCC rail.
Lay out the JTAG header (TCK/TMS/TDI/TDO) within 1.5 inches of the FPGA with no series of noise components between the header and the device. Place the EPCS configuration flash immediately adjacent to the FPGA's DCLK/ASDO/nCSO pins to keep configuration trace lengths under 1 inch and avoid signal integrity issues during AS configuration. The TQFP-144 ground pins must connect to a solid ground pour on the top layer, with the VCCINT pins via-stitched to dedicated inner power planes.
Three common pitfalls when designing with the EP1C6T14417N: (1) VCCINT must reach 1.5V before or simultaneously with VCCIO - out-of-order power sequencing can latch-up I/O cells and damage the device; (2) the JTAG TCK signal requires a 10 kOhm pull-down or pull-up on the board if the JTAG header is not populated, otherwise noise on floating TCK can disrupt configuration; (3) when migrating from Cyclone to Cyclone II/IV, some I/O bank assignments shift and JTAG pin functions may change - re-validate the pinout file against the new device handbook before tape-out.
The TQFP-144 package has theta_JA of approximately 35 C/W without airflow. Estimated: at 0.5W total dissipation, junction-to-ambient rise is 17.5 C, well within commercial 0C to +85C range. However, in sealed enclosures with no airflow, derate by 1.5x to 1.75x. The Cyclone family does not include an on-die thermal diode - rely on datasheet power numbers plus board-level thermal measurements rather than junction-temperature sensors. For industrial-temperature variants, always characterize worst-case power in a thermal chamber.
Compliance Information
Original Cyclone family was designed before AEC-Q100 qualification was standard for FPGAs; for automotive applications, use AEC-Q100 qualified Cyclone III/IV/10 variants. RoHS compliance verified per Altera PCN records.
