Active production — what it means for your BOM
The EP4CE15M9I7N: This is a Cyclone IV E device, Intel's low-power, low-cost FPGA family aimed at high-volume applications where power budget and unit cost are the primary constraints.
Logic fabric and memory — 15408 LEs with 516 Kbit block RAM
The core contains 15,408 logic elements (LEs) arranged in 963 LABs/CLBs, backed by 516,096 total RAM bits — enough for moderate-sized state machines, soft-core processors, or line-rate buffering in a 100 MHz-class design. With 165 user I/O pins, this part can interface to a wide parallel bus (e.g., a 16-bit MCU + DDR memory + a parallel ADC) without needing an external I/O expander or mux.
