EP4CE15E22C7N - Cyclone IV E FPGA, 15K LEs, 144-EQFP | Intel
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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 |
| Khoảng nhiệt độ hoạt động | 0 °C to +85 °C (commercial) |
| Speed Grade | -7 |
| Package Type | 144-pin EQFP with exposed pad |
| Kiểu lắp đặt | Surface Mount |
| Process Technology | 60 nm low-power CMOS |
| Embedded Multipliers (18x18) | 56 |
| PLLs | 4 |
| Configuration Modes | AS, PS, JTAG, Fast Passive Parallel |
| Trạng thái RoHS | Compliant |
| Lead Free | Yes |
Cấu hình chân EP4CE15E22C7N
| Chân 1 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O (bank dependent on pin) |
| Chân 2 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 3 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 4 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 5 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 6 | VCCIO1 — I/O bank 1 supply |
| Chân 7 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 8 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 9 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 10 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 11 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 12 | GND — Ground |
| Chân 13 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 14 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 15 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 16 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 17 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 18 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 19 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 20 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 21 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 22 | VCCINT — Core 1.2 V supply |
| Chân 23 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 24 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 25 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 26 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 27 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 28 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 29 | GND — Ground |
| Chân 30 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 31 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 32 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 33 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 34 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 35 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 36 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 37 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 38 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 39 | VCCIO2 — I/O bank 2 supply |
| Chân 40 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 41 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 42 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 43 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 44 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 45 | GND — Ground |
| Chân 46 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 47 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 48 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 49 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 50 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 51 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 52 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 53 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 54 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 55 | VCCINT — Core 1.2 V supply |
| Chân 56 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 57 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 58 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 59 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 60 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 61 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 62 | GND — Ground |
| Chân 63 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 64 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 65 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 66 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 67 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 68 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 69 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 70 | VCCIO3 — I/O bank 3 supply |
| Chân 71 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 72 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 73 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 74 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 75 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 76 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 77 | GND — Ground |
| Chân 78 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 79 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 80 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 81 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 82 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 83 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 84 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 85 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 86 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 87 | VCCINT — Core 1.2 V supply |
| Chân 88 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 89 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 90 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 91 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 92 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 93 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 94 | GND — Ground |
| Chân 95 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 96 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 97 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 98 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 99 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 100 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 101 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 102 | VCCIO4 — I/O bank 4 supply |
| Chân 103 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 104 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 105 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 106 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 107 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 108 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 109 | GND — Ground |
| Chân 110 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 111 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 112 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 113 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 114 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 115 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 116 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 117 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 118 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 119 | VCCINT — Core 1.2 V supply |
| Chân 120 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 121 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 122 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 123 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 124 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 125 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 126 | GND — Ground |
| Chân 127 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 128 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 129 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 130 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 131 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 132 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 133 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 134 | VCCIO5 — I/O bank 5 supply |
| Chân 135 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 136 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 137 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 138 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 139 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 140 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 141 | GND — Ground |
| Chân 142 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 143 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân 144 | I/O — General-purpose user I/O |
| Chân EP | GND — Exposed thermal pad - solder to PCB ground pour |
Ứng dụng tiêu biểu
EP4CE15E22C7N phù hợp cho 7 Áp dụngs: 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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| Tham số | Sản phẩm này | 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 |
Bảo phân biệt quan trọng
- Higher DSP multiplier density vs EP4CE10 family (vsEP4CE10E22C8N)
- Commercial-temperature pricing advantage vs industrial grade (vsEP4CE15E22I7N)
- Smaller, more power-efficient Cyclone IV E choice vs higher-density EP4CE115 (vsEP4CE115F29C8N)
Ghi chú thiết kế
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.
Thông tin tuân thủ
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.