EPM570GT100I5N - 440-Macrocell CPLD, 5.4ns, MAX II, 100-TQFP | Altera
MPN: EPM570GT100I5N β Active| Qty | Unit Price | Extended |
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| 1 | $25.75 | $25.75 |
| 10 | $23.18 | $231.80 |
| 100 | $20.6 | $2,060.00 |
| 500 | $18.55 | $9,275.00 |
| 1,000 | $16.5 | $16,500.00 |
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View Datasheet βEPM570GT100I5N Maximum Ratings & Electrical Characteristics
| Family | MAX II |
| Logic Elements | 570 LE |
| Equivalent Macrocells | 440 macrocells |
| Number of LABs | 57 |
| User I/Os | 76 |
| Maximum Operating Frequency | 304 MHz |
| Propagation Delay (tPD1) | 5.4 ns |
| Operating Supply Voltage (Core) | 1.8 V |
| User Flash Memory | 8 Kbit |
| Package | 100-pin TQFP (GT100) |
| Mounting Type | Surface Mount (SMD/SMT) |
| Operating Temperature | -40 Β°C to +100 Β°C (Industrial) |
| Process | 0.18 Β΅m, 6-layer-metal flash |
| JTAG Support | Yes (IEEE 1149.1 boundary-scan) |
| MultiVolt I/O Support | 1.8 V / 2.5 V / 3.3 V |
| Internal Oscillator | Yes |
| Non-volatile Configuration | Yes (instant-on, no external boot PROM) |
| RoHS Status | Compliant |
EPM570GT100I5N Pin Configuration
| Pin 1 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 1) |
| Pin 2 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 1) |
| Pin 3 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 1) |
| Pin 4 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 1) |
| Pin 5 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 1) |
| Pin 6 | GND β Ground |
| Pin 7 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 1) |
| Pin 8 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 1) |
| Pin 9 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 1) |
| Pin 10 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 1) |
| Pin 11 | VCCIO1 β I/O bank 1 supply voltage (1.8/2.5/3.3 V) |
| Pin 12 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 1) |
| Pin 13 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 1) |
| Pin 14 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 1) |
| Pin 15 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 1) |
| Pin 16 | GND β Ground |
| Pin 17 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 1) |
| Pin 18 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 1) |
| Pin 19 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 1) |
| Pin 20 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 1) |
| Pin 21 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 1) |
| Pin 22 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 1) |
| Pin 23 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 1) |
| Pin 24 | GND β Ground |
| Pin 25 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 1) |
| Pin 26 | TMS β JTAG Test Mode Select |
| Pin 27 | TCK β JTAG Test Clock |
| Pin 28 | TDI β JTAG Test Data In |
| Pin 29 | TDO β JTAG Test Data Out |
| Pin 30 | GND β Ground |
| Pin 31 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 2) |
| Pin 32 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 2) |
| Pin 33 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 2) |
| Pin 34 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 2) |
| Pin 35 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 2) |
| Pin 36 | VCCIO2 β I/O bank 2 supply voltage (1.8/2.5/3.3 V) |
| Pin 37 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 2) |
| Pin 38 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 2) |
| Pin 39 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 2) |
| Pin 40 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 2) |
| Pin 41 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 2) |
| Pin 42 | GND β Ground |
| Pin 43 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 2) |
| Pin 44 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 2) |
| Pin 45 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 2) |
| Pin 46 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 2) |
| Pin 47 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 2) |
| Pin 48 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 2) |
| Pin 49 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 2) |
| Pin 50 | VCCINT β Core supply voltage (1.8 V) |
| Pin 51 | GND β Ground |
| Pin 52 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 3) |
| Pin 53 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 3) |
| Pin 54 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 3) |
| Pin 55 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 3) |
| Pin 56 | VCCIO3 β I/O bank 3 supply voltage (1.8/2.5/3.3 V) |
| Pin 57 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 3) |
| Pin 58 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 3) |
| Pin 59 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 3) |
| Pin 60 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 3) |
| Pin 61 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 3) |
| Pin 62 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 3) |
| Pin 63 | GND β Ground |
| Pin 64 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 3) |
| Pin 65 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 3) |
| Pin 66 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 3) |
| Pin 67 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 3) |
| Pin 68 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 3) |
| Pin 69 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 3) |
| Pin 70 | VCCINT β Core supply voltage (1.8 V) |
| Pin 71 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 4) |
| Pin 72 | GND β Ground |
| Pin 73 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 4) |
| Pin 74 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 4) |
| Pin 75 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 4) |
| Pin 76 | VCCIO4 β I/O bank 4 supply voltage (1.8/2.5/3.3 V) |
| Pin 77 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 4) |
| Pin 78 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 4) |
| Pin 79 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 4) |
| Pin 80 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 4) |
| Pin 81 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 4) |
| Pin 82 | GND β Ground |
| Pin 83 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 4) |
| Pin 84 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 4) |
| Pin 85 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 4) |
| Pin 86 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 4) |
| Pin 87 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 4) |
| Pin 88 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 4) |
| Pin 89 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 4) |
| Pin 90 | VCCINT β Core supply voltage (1.8 V) |
| Pin 91 | GND β Ground |
| Pin 92 | nCONFIG β Configuration control input |
| Pin 93 | nSTATUS β Configuration status output |
| Pin 94 | CONF_DONE β Configuration done output |
| Pin 95 | DEV_OE β Device-wide output enable (active low) |
| Pin 96 | DEV_CLRn β Device-wide clear (active low) |
| Pin 97 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 1) |
| Pin 98 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 1) |
| Pin 99 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 1) |
| Pin 100 | I/O β General-purpose user I/O (bank 1) |
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
EPM570GT100I5N is suitable for 7 applications: Bus Interface Bridging, Power Supply Sequencing, FPGA Configuration Controller, Industrial I/O Expansion, LED Display and Sign Driver, Legacy Peripheral Replacement, Portable Test and Measurement Equipment.
Bus Interface Bridging
The EPM570GT100I5N's 76 user I/Os and MultiVolt 1.8/2.5/3.3 V support make it well suited for bridging 8-bit and 16-bit buses between microcontrollers and peripherals operating at mixed voltages. The 5.4 ns propagation delay adds only a couple of nanoseconds of glue-logic latency, while the 570 logic elements comfortably handle address-latch, chip-select decode, and wait-state generation state machines. Placing the CPLD between the MCU and the peripheral bank eliminates the level shifter array and centralizes bus timing control. The MAX II instant-on architecture means the bus bridge is active on power-up with no external boot PROM, critical for deterministic system bring-up. Source: Altera/Intel MAX II datasheet bus-interface reference designs.
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Power Supply Sequencing
Multi-rail systems often require strict power-up and power-down sequencing of analog, digital, and I/O rails to prevent latch-up. The EPM570GT100I5N offers 76 I/Os and instant-on flash configuration, so power-good trees can be implemented entirely in deterministic CPLD logic without software overhead. Each rail's PG signal feeds an input pin and a sequenced ENABLE output drives the next rail's enable pin via a configurable delay chain built from internal logic. The 5.4 ns propagation delay is far faster than any DC-DC converter's soft-start, making the CPLD the master sequencer. The non-volatile configuration also ensures identical sequencing behavior on every power cycle without software intervention.
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FPGA Configuration Controller
The EPM570GT100I5N can act as a low-cost configuration master for a downstream FPGA, replacing dedicated SPI flash with the CPLD's on-chip 8 Kbit user flash plus emulated SPI over GPIO. Designers pre-load the FPGA bitstream into the UFM and use CPLD logic to generate the FPGA's CONFIG, DCLK, and DATA0 lines with precise timing. The instant-on, deterministic start-up ensures the FPGA configuration sequence begins within microseconds of power-up. With 76 I/Os, the same CPLD can also handle housekeeping tasks such as reset generation, status LED multiplexing, and boot-mode selection. This is a common pattern in cost-sensitive industrial designs where a separate boot PROM is undesirable.
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Industrial I/O Expansion
Industrial controllers frequently need more general-purpose I/Os than the host MCU provides, especially for parallel ADC/DAC interfacing, keypad scanning, or driving segmented LCDs. The EPM570GT100I5N exposes 76 MultiVolt I/Os in a single 100-TQFP, enough to add an entire parallel data bus plus control lines while operating at the host MCU's 1.8 V, 2.5 V, or 3.3 V logic level. Industrial temperature rating (-40 to +100 Β°C) allows deployment in factory floor and outdoor cabinet environments. With 5.4 ns propagation delay the CPLD can run scan logic or simple PWM at multi-MHz rates without timing concerns.
Recommended
LED Display and Sign Driver
The EPM570GT100I5N's 76 I/Os and 5.4 ns propagation delay suit multiplexed LED matrix driving where row/column switching must happen in microseconds to avoid visible flicker. The 570 logic elements can store full-frame scan patterns and 8-Kbit user flash holds font tables or animation sequences, eliminating an external ROM. MultiVolt I/O banks allow direct drive of 3.3 V LED driver inputs and 5 V shift-register clock inputs. Industrial temperature range supports outdoor signage installations. Compared with an MCU-based scan engine, the CPLD approach frees the host processor and guarantees flicker-free timing regardless of software load.
Recommended
Legacy Peripheral Replacement
When a discrete 74xx glue-logic array grows beyond a handful of packages, the EPM570GT100I5N consolidates the design into a single 100-TQFP that can absorb decoders, latches, multiplexers, and small state machines in one device. The instant-on flash configuration means the board behaves identically to the discrete-logic version on every power cycle. The 8-Kbit UFM can hold configuration tables that previously required a small EEPROM. Re-using the same 100-TQFP footprint, design teams can migrate from a discrete-logic board to a CPLD-based board without changing the PCB outline, simplifying lifecycle extensions of legacy products.
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Portable Test and Measurement Equipment
Portable T&M instruments require deterministic timing for stimulus generation, sample-clock distribution, and trigger routing. The EPM570GT100I5N provides 5.4 ns pin-to-pin delay, suitable for sub-200 MHz pulse generation, while its 76 I/Os allow direct connection to front-panel switches, rotary encoders, and segmented displays without an additional I/O expander. The instant-on flash architecture means the instrument is fully functional within milliseconds of battery insertion, critical for handheld field tools. The 8-Kbit UFM stores calibration constants and operator settings, surviving power cycles. Industrial temperature rating supports field-deployed environments.
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Engineering reference data for EPM570GT100I5N β comparison, design guidance, and compliance information.
Selection Guide
Comparison with Alternatives
| Parameter | This Product | EPM570GT100I5 | EPM570GT100C5N | EPM570GT100C4N | EPM570GT100C3N | EPM570F100I5N |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brand | Altera (Intel) | Altera (Intel) | Altera (Intel) | Altera (Intel) | Altera (Intel) | Altera (Intel) |
| Package | 100-TQFP (GT100) | 100-TQFP (GT100) - same | 100-TQFP (GT100) - same | 100-TQFP (GT100) - same | 100-TQFP (GT100) - same | 100-FineLine BGA (F100) - DIFFERENT |
| Logic Elements | 570 LE | 570 LE | 570 LE | 570 LE | 570 LE | 570 LE |
| Speed Grade | I5 (5.4 ns tPD1) | I5 (5.4 ns) | C5 (~6.5 ns) | C4 (~7.5 ns) | C3 (~9 ns) | I5 (5.4 ns) |
| Operating Temperature | -40 Β°C to +100 Β°C (Industrial) | -40 Β°C to +100 Β°C (Industrial) | 0 Β°C to +85 Β°C (Commercial) | 0 Β°C to +85 Β°C (Commercial) | 0 Β°C to +85 Β°C (Commercial) | -40 Β°C to +100 Β°C (Industrial) |
| User I/Os | 76 | 76 | 76 | 76 | 76 | 76 |
| Core Voltage | 1.8 V | 1.8 V | 1.8 V | 1.8 V | 1.8 V | 1.8 V |
| RoHS / Lead-free | Yes (N suffix) | No (SnPb) | Yes (N suffix) | Yes (N suffix) | Yes (N suffix) | Yes (N suffix) |
| User Flash Memory | 8 Kbit | 8 Kbit | 8 Kbit | 8 Kbit | 8 Kbit | 8 Kbit |
| Pin-to-Pin Drop-In | β | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No (BGA vs TQFP) |
Key Differentiators
- Highest-density 100-TQFP MAX II variant (vs EPM240 / EPM570 in 100-TQFP)
- Fastest I5 speed grade in this density class (vs EPM570GT100C5N / C4N / C3N)
- Industrial -40 to +100 Β°C temperature range (vs EPM570GT100C5N (commercial 0-85 Β°C))
Design Notes
The MAX II core operates from a single 1.8 V VCCINT supply; I/O banks are powered independently via VCCIO1-4 pins that can each be set to 1.8 V, 2.5 V, or 3.3 V to match the connected peripherals. Decoupling recommendations from Altera: place one 0.1 Β΅F ceramic capacitor on every VCCINT pin and one 0.1 Β΅F + one bulk 10 Β΅F per VCCIO bank, all within 100 mils of the package pin. Power-up sequence is not critical because MAX II is non-volatile and instant-on, but VCCINT should rise monotonically and reach 1.8 V before any I/O drives the system bus. Estimated typical quiescent current at room temperature with default settings: ~20 mA core + ~5 mA per active I/O bank.
Route JTAG signals (TCK, TMS, TDI, TDO) with short, parallel traces and a ground reference; pull TMS and TDI high through 10 kΞ© resistors to VCCIO of the JTAG bank, and put a 33 Ξ© series damping resistor near the TCK driver if the TCK trace exceeds 2 inches. Provide a 4-pin JTAG header (or 10-pin Altera USB-Blaster header) accessible at the board edge for in-system reprogramming. Keep JTAG traces away from high-speed switching rails or clock signals to avoid false boundary-scan captures. Source: Altera AN 39: JTAG Boundary-Scan Testing for MAX II Devices.
Common pitfalls: (1) assigning signals to pins in different VCCIO banks without confirming voltage compatibility β MultiVolt lets you mix, but only within the same VCCIO group; (2) forgetting to enable internal pull-ups on unused I/Os in the Quartus device options, which can leave inputs floating and cause extra current draw; (3) using a JTAG chain with mixed-voltage devices without a level shifter between the CPLD's TDO and the next device's TDI; (4) assuming the 8-Kbit UFM is large enough for full FPGA bitstreams β at 8 Kbits it is suitable for small boot streams, configuration tables, or data logging, not for large FPGA images. Source: Altera MAX II device handbook and Quartus II MAX II handbook.
Estimated: at maximum toggle activity (~100 MHz toggle rate across 76 I/Os, 1.8 V VCCIO) the device draws ~70-100 mA from VCCINT, dissipating roughly 130-180 mW as heat. With the 100-TQFP package's ΞΈJA of ~45 Β°C/W on a JEDEC 4-layer test board, junction temperature rise above ambient is ~6-8 Β°C, well within the 100 Β°C upper limit. In a sealed enclosure with no airflow, derate by 20-30 % to maintain margin. The industrial temperature variant is rated to +100 Β°C junction, so adequate copper pour around the package is sufficient for most designs without an explicit heatsink. Source: Estimated based on typical MAX II power characteristics and standard JEDEC thermal data.
Compliance Information
RoHS compliant per Altera/Intel material declaration. MAX II family is generally not AEC-Q100 qualified; for automotive-grade designs consider MAX 10 or Cyclone families.
