EP4CE15E22C7N - Cyclone IV E FPGA, 15K LEs, 144-EQFP | Intel
N.º da peça: EP4CE15E22C7N ✓ Ativo| Qtd. | Preço unitário | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $164.3 | $164,30 |
| 10 | $148.5 | $1.485,00 |
| 100 | $132 | $13.200,00 |
| 500 | $118.75 | $59.375,00 |
| 1.000 | $105.4 | $105.400,00 |
EP4CE15E22C7N Visão geral
A Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is a semiconductor integrated circuit whose digital logic fabric, interconnect, and I/O are user-programmable after manufacture. FPGAs sit in the broader taxonomy of programmable logic devices (PLDs) and are widely used for parallel processing, custom digital interfaces, glue logic, prototyping ASICs, and signal processing. Cyclone IV E extends this lineage into a low-power family specifically optimized for high-volume, cost-driven designs.
Key features include 81 user I/O pins, 56 embedded 18x18 multipliers (DSP blocks), 4 PLLs for clock synthesis, and a configuration architecture supporting serial (AS), parallel (PS), JTAG, and active serial modes. The exposed thermal pad supports conduction cooling and PCB ground reinforcement. Compared with the older Cyclone III family, Cyclone IV E delivers up to 30% lower total power while preserving the Quartus II / Quartus Prime design ecosystem and IP library.
Typical applications include industrial motor control, factory automation controllers, video surveillance and image processing front-ends, automotive infotainment prototypes, communication bridges (UART/SPI/I2C fan-out, PCIe endpoint soft IP), and educational development boards. The 144-pin EQFP footprint makes hand-soldering feasible for prototypes, while the exposed pad remains compatible with standard SMT reflow profiles.
When designing with this device, ensure the exposed pad is soldered to a ground copper pour of at least 25 mm² to keep junction temperature within the commercial range. The configuration mode must be selected before VCCIO ramps via the MSEL pins; leaving them floating causes configuration failure. Decouple each VCCINT/VCCIO rail with 0.1 µF + bulk 10 µF ceramic capacitors placed within 5 mm of the respective pins.
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| Series | Cyclone IV E |
| Logic Elements | 15,408 |
| Total Memory Bits | 516,096 |
| Number of I/O Pins | 81 |
| Supply Voltage (VCCINT) | 1.2 V |
| Faixa de temperatura de operação | 0 °C to +85 °C (commercial) |
| Speed Grade | -7 |
| Package Type | 144-pin EQFP with exposed pad |
| Tipo de montagem | Surface Mount |
| Process Technology | 60 nm low-power CMOS |
| Embedded Multipliers (18x18) | 56 |
| PLLs | 4 |
| Configuration Modes | AS, PS, JTAG, Fast Passive Parallel |
| Status RoHS | Compliant |
| Lead Free | Yes |
Configuração de pinos do EP4CE15E22C7N
| Pino 1 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O (bank dependent on pin) |
| Pino 2 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 3 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 4 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 5 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 6 | VCCIO1 — I/O bank 1 supply |
| Pino 7 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 8 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 9 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 10 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 11 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 12 | GND — Ground |
| Pino 13 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 14 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 15 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 16 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 17 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 18 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 19 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 20 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 21 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 22 | VCCINT — Core 1.2 V supply |
| Pino 23 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 24 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 25 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 26 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 27 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 28 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 29 | GND — Ground |
| Pino 30 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 31 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 32 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 33 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 34 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 35 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 36 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 37 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 38 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 39 | VCCIO2 — I/O bank 2 supply |
| Pino 40 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 41 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 42 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 43 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 44 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 45 | GND — Ground |
| Pino 46 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 47 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 48 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 49 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 50 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 51 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 52 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 53 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 54 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 55 | VCCINT — Core 1.2 V supply |
| Pino 56 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 57 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 58 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 59 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 60 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 61 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 62 | GND — Ground |
| Pino 63 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 64 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 65 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 66 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 67 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 68 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 69 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 70 | VCCIO3 — I/O bank 3 supply |
| Pino 71 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 72 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 73 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 74 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 75 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 76 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 77 | GND — Ground |
| Pino 78 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 79 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 80 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 81 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 82 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 83 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 84 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 85 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 86 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 87 | VCCINT — Core 1.2 V supply |
| Pino 88 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 89 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 90 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 91 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 92 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 93 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 94 | GND — Ground |
| Pino 95 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 96 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 97 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 98 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 99 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 100 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 101 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 102 | VCCIO4 — I/O bank 4 supply |
| Pino 103 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 104 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 105 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 106 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 107 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 108 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 109 | GND — Ground |
| Pino 110 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 111 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 112 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 113 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 114 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 115 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 116 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 117 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 118 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 119 | VCCINT — Core 1.2 V supply |
| Pino 120 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 121 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 122 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 123 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 124 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 125 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 126 | GND — Ground |
| Pino 127 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 128 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 129 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 130 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 131 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 132 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 133 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 134 | VCCIO5 — I/O bank 5 supply |
| Pino 135 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 136 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 137 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 138 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 139 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 140 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 141 | GND — Ground |
| Pino 142 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 143 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino 144 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Pino EP | GND — Exposed thermal pad - solder to PCB ground pour |
Aplicações típicas
EP4CE15E22C7N é adequado para 7 aplicaçãos: Industrial Motor Control (FOC / Servo), Factory Automation & PLC Controllers, Video Surveillance / Image Processing Front-End, Communication Bridges & Custom Protocols, Educational FPGA Development Boards, Automotive Infotainment Prototyping, Custom DSP / Software-Defined Radio Front-End.
Industrial Motor Control (FOC / Servo)
The EP4CE15E22C7N is a strong fit for multi-axis motor control because it provides 56 dedicated 18x18 multipliers that natively accelerate Field-Oriented Control (FOC) math, including Park/Clarke transforms and PI loops. With four PLLs the part can synthesize the independent clocks required by encoder sampling, PWM switching, and the communication bus (EtherCAT, CAN, RS-485) in parallel. The 81 user I/Os comfortably drive 3-phase PWM, quadrature decoders, and hall-sensor inputs for up to two axes simultaneously on a single FPGA. Industrial users value the Cyclone IV E 60 nm low-power process, which keeps dissipation manageable inside sealed servo-drive enclosures.
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Factory Automation & PLC Controllers
In factory automation, the EP4CE15E22C7N serves as a programmable logic controller backbone, replacing multiple discrete CPLDs and microcontroller glue with a single reconfigurable device. Its 516 Kbits of embedded RAM provide deterministic buffering for high-speed digital I/O scans, while 81 user I/Os allow direct interface to 24V industrial signal-conditioning rails via external opto-couplers. Designers appreciate the AS (active serial) configuration mode, which enables in-field firmware updates from a low-cost EPCS flash memory. The commercial temperature rating 0°C to +85°C matches typical control-cabinet environments.
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Video Surveillance / Image Processing Front-End
For mid-resolution video surveillance front-ends, the EP4CE15E22C7N is an attractive choice because of its parallel multiplier pipeline capability for real-time edge detection, motion analysis, and sensor preprocessing. The four PLLs can generate pixel clocks for common image sensors (BT.656, parallel CMOS), while the 81 I/Os tolerate the wide data buses of typical 8/10-bit camera interfaces. Cyclone IV E enables custom ISP pipelines (debayering, gamma, sharpening) that would otherwise require a dedicated image processor, reducing both PCB area and BOM cost in compact IP-camera designs.
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Communication Bridges & Custom Protocols
The EP4CE15E22C7N excels as a programmable interface bridge, supporting concurrent UART, SPI, I2C, and custom LVDS links thanks to its flexible I/O architecture and 81 user pins. Engineers use it to glue mismatched bus standards in legacy retrofits, design PCIe endpoint soft-IP, and prototype multi-master I2C or RS-485 buses. The four PLLs allow generation of multiple baud-rate reference clocks simultaneously, eliminating the need for external oscillators. Compared with dedicated bridge ASICs, the FPGA offers field-upgradable protocol stacks via JTAG reconfiguration.
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Educational FPGA Development Boards
Universities and embedded-learning platforms frequently adopt the EP4CE15E22C7N because it offers a generous 15K logic elements for student projects without the cost of larger Stratix-class FPGAs. The 144-pin EQFP package is hand-solder-friendly for custom learning boards, and the exposed pad provides good thermal headroom during long laboratory sessions. Quartus Prime Web Edition supports the part at no license cost, allowing coursework in Verilog/VHDL, soft-core CPUs (Nios II), and custom peripheral design. The 81 I/Os are typically broken out to PMOD-style headers and onboard LEDs.
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Automotive Infotainment Prototyping
While the EP4CE15E22C7N itself is commercial-temperature, it is widely used as a low-cost prototype vehicle for automotive infotainment algorithms such as audio routing, display multiplexing, and CAN/LIN bridging before migration to a Cyclone V or Stratix-class automotive-grade FPGA. The 56 multipliers accelerate audio DSP and noise-suppression pipelines, while 81 I/Os handle multiple display panels, touch controllers, and vehicle network buses. Designers can validate signal integrity and timing closure on the EQFP-144 footprint, then transition directly to the production pin-compatible industrial-grade EP4CE15E22I7N variant.
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Custom DSP / Software-Defined Radio Front-End
Software-defined radio front-ends use the EP4CE15E22C7N to implement digital down/up-conversion, channelization, and pulse-shaping filters thanks to its 56 hardware multipliers and 516 Kbits of block RAM. The four PLLs can derive the ADC sample clock, LO, and baseband processing clock independently, supporting flexible multi-rate architectures. With 81 user I/Os, designers can interface parallel ADC/DAC chips such as the AD9248 or AD9767 directly without external glue logic. The 60 nm low-power Cyclone IV E process allows SDR modules to be deployed in field-portable enclosures.
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Comparação com alternativas
| Parâmetro | Este produto | EP4CE15E22C8N | EP4CE15E22I7N | EP4CE15E22C7 | EP4CE10E22C8N | EP4CE115F29C8N |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brand | Intel | Intel | Intel | Intel | Intel | Intel |
| Package | EQFP-144 (E22) | EQFP-144 - same | EQFP-144 - same | EQFP-144 - same | EQFP-144 - same | EQFP-144 - same |
| Logic Elements | 15,408 | 15,408 - same | 15,408 - same | 15,408 - same | 10,320 (-33%) | 114,480 (+643%) |
| Embedded Memory (bits) | 516,096 | 516,096 - same | 516,096 - same | 516,096 - same | 423,936 (-18%) | 3,981,312 (+672%) |
| 18x18 Multipliers | 56 | 56 - same | 56 - same | 56 - same | 23 (-59%) | 266 (+375%) |
| User I/O Pins | 81 | 81 - same | 81 - same | 81 - same | 91 (+12%) | 93 (+15%) |
| PLLs | 4 | 4 - same | 4 - same | 4 - same | 2 (-50%) | 4 - same |
| Speed Grade | -7 (standard) | -8 (faster) | -7 (industrial temp) | -7 (tray packing) | -8 (faster) | -8 (faster) |
| 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) |
| VCCINT (Core) | 1.2 V | 1.2 V - same | 1.2 V - same | 1.2 V - same | 1.2 V - same | 1.2 V - same |
Principais diferenciais
- Higher DSP multiplier density vs EP4CE10 family (vs EP4CE10E22C8N)
- Commercial-temperature pricing advantage vs industrial grade (vs EP4CE15E22I7N)
- Smaller, more power-efficient Cyclone IV E choice vs higher-density EP4CE115 (vs EP4CE115F29C8N)
Notas de projeto
The EP4CE15E22C7N requires three supply rails: VCCINT = 1.2 V for the core logic, VCCIO = 1.2–3.3 V (bank-dependent) for the I/O banks, and a 2.5 V supply to VCCPD if any I/O bank operates at 3.3 V. Decouple each rail with a 0.1 µF ceramic capacitor within 5 mm of every VCC pin, plus a shared 10 µF bulk capacitor per rail. Estimated: a fully utilized EP4CE15 with 81 toggling LVCMOS33 I/Os at 100 MHz can draw 600–800 mA on VCCINT; derate the regulator accordingly.
Solder the exposed pad (EP) of the EQFP-144 package to a PCB ground pour of at least 25 mm², with at least eight thermal vias (0.3 mm diameter) stitching to internal ground planes. Without this, junction temperature can rise above the 85 °C commercial limit during sustained DSP workloads. Estimated: with eight thermal vias and a 25 mm² copper pour on a 4-layer FR-4 PCB, theta_JA drops to roughly 18 °C/W, supporting up to ~2.5 W dissipation at 25 °C ambient.
MSEL[2:0] pins must be tied to VCCIO8 or GND through 1 kΩ resistors before VCCIO ramps to select AS, PS, JTAG, or Fast Passive Parallel configuration modes. Leaving MSEL floating causes configuration failure and 'CONF_DONE low' symptoms during JTAG programming. Also, do not hot-plug the JTAG TCK line; pull TMS high through 10 kΩ when not actively programming to prevent spurious configuration triggers.
Route high-speed differential pairs (LVDS) with 100 Ω differential impedance and keep length matching to within 150 mil for signals above 400 Mbps. Place configuration flash memory (EPCS4/EPCS16) within 50 mm of the FPGA DATA0/DCLK/nCSO/ASDO pins to avoid signal-integrity issues. Keep JTAG signals away from switching power inductors and route them over a continuous ground reference for noise immunity.
Informações de conformidade
RoHS and lead-free compliant per Intel/Altera product page. The C7N variant is commercial-temperature (0C to +85C) and not AEC-Q100 qualified; for automotive use select the EP4CE15E22I7N industrial variant and confirm with the customer's automotive qualification process.