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Cyclone® IV FPGAs

Altera Cyclone IV FPGAs deliver cost-effective performance for embedded innovation

Image of Intel's Cyclone® IV FPGAs Part of the Altera power-optimized and cost-optimized product portfolio, the Cyclone IV FPGA family is engineered for very low cost and power consumption, making it ideal for high-volume, cost-sensitive applications across industries such as wireless, broadcast, industrial, and retail electronics. It includes two variants:

  • Cyclone IV E, FPGA fabric and I/O optimized for low power and high functionality
  • Cyclone IV GX, which adds low-power 3.125 Gbps transceiver I/Os supporting multiple serial channel protocols and PCIe® 1.0 x1/x2/x4 lane capabilities

Why Choose Cyclone IV FPGAs

The Cyclone IV FPGA family extends the Cyclone FPGA series leadership in providing low-power FPGAs, now with transceiver I/O variants. These FPGAs provide a balance of simple logic, memory, and DSP/AI compute engines, along with an abundance of general-purpose I/O (GPIO) and transceiver I/O to support efficient protocol bridging, power-sensitive, cost-sensitive, high-volume applications. Key features included in the family:

  • Up to 150,000 simplified 4-input look-up-table (LUT)-based logic elements
  • Up to 6.3 Mb of embedded high-speed, configurable SRAM memory
  • Up to 360 configurable DSP blocks
  • Up to 528 GPIO
  • Up to 8x transceiver I/O channel pairs
  • Support for Nios® V 32-bit soft IP, embedded RISC-V-based processors

Each transceiver channel pair consumes only 150 mW, ensuring low-power operation even for high-speed serial I/O protocols. Additionally, its robust and configurable DSP capabilities make it capable of handling small AI workloads like TinyML and other convolutional neural networks in addition to traditional DSP algorithms like FIR filters and FFTs used in image and signal processing.

To keep development costs low, Altera provides free, no-cost licenses for the following software tools:

  • Quartus® Prime Design Software, Lite-Edition
  • Questa* FPGA Starter Edition Simulation Tool
  • SoC FPGA Embedded Development Suite
  • Ashling* RiscFree* IDE for Altera FPGAs

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Cyclone® IV FPGAs

ImageManufacturer Part NumberDescriptionNumber of LABs/CLBsNumber of Logic Elements/CellsTotal RAM BitsAvailable QuantityPriceView Details
IC FPGA 91 I/O 144EQFPEP4CE6E22C8NIC FPGA 91 I/O 144EQFP3926272276480404 - Immediate$138.87View Details
IC FPGA 179 I/O 256FBGAEP4CE6F17C8NIC FPGA 179 I/O 256FBGA3926272276480682 - Immediate$173.53View Details
IC FPGA 91 I/O 144EQFPEP4CE6E22I7NIC FPGA 91 I/O 144EQFP3926272276480313 - Immediate$208.35View Details
IC FPGA 179 I/O 256FBGAEP4CE6F17I7NIC FPGA 179 I/O 256FBGA3926272276480767 - Immediate$260.30View Details
IC FPGA 72 I/O 169FBGAEP4CGX15BF14C8NIC FPGA 72 I/O 169FBGA900144005529601257 - Immediate$292.40View Details
IC FPGA 91 I/O 144EQFPEP4CE10E22I7NIC FPGA 91 I/O 144EQFP64510320423936169 - Immediate$391.43View Details
IC FPGA 72 I/O 169FBGAEP4CGX15BF14I7NIC FPGA 72 I/O 169FBGA900144005529600 - Immediate$438.60View Details
IC FPGA 72 I/O 169FBGAEP4CGX22BF14C8NIC FPGA 72 I/O 169FBGA133021280774144193 - Immediate$473.83View Details
IC FPGA 532 I/O 780FBGAEP4CE30F29C8NIC FPGA 532 I/O 780FBGA18032884860825647 - Immediate$486.84View Details
IC FPGA 165 I/O 256FBGAEP4CE15F17I7NIC FPGA 165 I/O 256FBGA9631540851609674 - Immediate$504.29View Details
IC FPGA 153 I/O 256FBGAEP4CE22F17C8NIC FPGA 153 I/O 256FBGA13952232060825674 - Immediate$516.15View Details
IC FPGA 150 I/O 324FBGAEP4CGX22CF19C8NIC FPGA 150 I/O 324FBGA133021280774144138 - Immediate$544.96View Details
IC FPGA 328 I/O 484FBGAEP4CE30F23C7NIC FPGA 328 I/O 484FBGA180328848608256654 - Immediate$580.11View Details
IC FPGA 343 I/O 484FBGAEP4CE15F23I8LNIC FPGA 343 I/O 484FBGA96315408516096230 - Immediate$605.30View Details
IC FPGA 343 I/O 484FBGAEP4CE15F23I7NIC FPGA 343 I/O 484FBGA9631540851609643 - Immediate$605.30View Details
IC FPGA 79 I/O 144EQFPEP4CE22E22I8LNIC FPGA 79 I/O 144EQFP139522320608256120 - Immediate$619.38View Details
IC FPGA 79 I/O 144EQFPEP4CE22E22I7NIC FPGA 79 I/O 144EQFP13952232060825678 - Immediate$619.38View Details
IC FPGA 153 I/O 256UBGAEP4CE22U14I7NIC FPGA 153 I/O 256UBGA13952232060825666 - Immediate$677.49View Details
IC FPGA 328 I/O 484FBGAEP4CE30F23I7NIC FPGA 328 I/O 484FBGA18032884860825668 - Immediate$696.10View Details
IC FPGA 328 I/O 484FBGAEP4CE40F23C8NIC FPGA 328 I/O 484FBGA247539600116121694 - Immediate$771.59View Details
Updated: 2025-08-06
Published: 2012-06-29

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