How do Cyclone III FPGAs compare to Cyclone II FPGAs?
Compared to the previous generation built on the 90-nm process, the 65-nm Cyclone III device family delivers 1.7x higher density, more than 3.5x the embedded memory, and 2x more multipliers, while lowering the cost per LE by 20 percent. Cyclone III FPGAs consume 50 percent less (core) power than Cyclone II FPGAs. Cyclone III FPGAs also offer low-cost configuration options with support for industry-standard commodity parallel flash devices. Cyclone III FPGAs also support higher speed memory interfaces and offer higher I/O and PLL flexibility than Cyclone II FPGAs. Please refer to the differences between Cyclone III and Cyclone II FPGAs feature comparison page for more details.
