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EPF10K30AQI240-1 - FLEX 10KA FPGA, 30K Gates, 240-PQFP | Altera

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3.3 V Vdss 240-pin PQFP (Plastic Quad Flat Pack) Package 769.23 MHz Speed

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Price updated: 2026-09-11

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Qty	Unit Price	Extended
1	$42.5	$42.50
10	$38.25	$382.50
100	$32	$3,200.00
500	$26.75	$13,375.00
1,000	$22.4	$22,400.00

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EPF10K30AQI240-1 Overview

The Altera (now Intel) EPF10K30AQI240-1 is a FLEX 10KA family Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) housed in a 240-pin Plastic Quad Flat Pack (PQFP) package, offering approximately 30,000 ASIC-equivalent gates and 1,728 logic elements (LEs) with embedded array blocks. It supports up to 189 user I/O lines, 4 dedicated inputs and 193 total inputs, operates at a maximum clock frequency of 769.23 MHz with a propagation delay of 11 ns, and runs on a 3.3 V core supply in 0.42 um CMOS SRAM technology.

A Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is a semiconductor integrated circuit that can be electrically reconfigured by the designer after manufacturing. The FLEX 10KA family belongs to the hierarchy FPGA -> programmable logic device (PLD) -> logic IC -> integrated circuit, and combines a fine-grained Look-Up Table (LUT)-based logic fabric with coarse-grained Embedded Array Blocks (EABs) that can be used as on-chip RAM, ROM, or wide-gate functions. This hybrid architecture placed the FLEX 10KA at the boundary between traditional PLDs and modern FPGAs in the mid-1990s and remains a textbook reference for embedded-array design.

Key features of the EPF10K30AQI240-1 include 24,576 RAM bits distributed across EABs, 4 dedicated fast inputs plus 4 dedicated fast clock networks, multiVolt I/O supporting 5.0 V, 3.3 V and 2.5 V interface levels, in-system programmability through the IEEE 1149.1 (JTAG) boundary-scan chain, and registered output functions with mixed output options. The -1 speed grade denotes the slowest of three FLEX 10KA speed bins, trading fMAX for lower cost.

Technically, the device is built on a 0.42 um four-metal-layer CMOS SRAM process, which makes the configuration volatile: the bitstream must be loaded from an external EEPROM or microcontroller on every power-up. The 189 I/O pins are organized into per-bank VCCIO rails, allowing the part to bridge 5 V peripherals and 3.3 V ASICs without level shifters. Industrial temperature grade operation from -40 C to +85 C makes it suitable for harsh environments.

Typical applications for the EPF10K30AQI240-1 include glue logic replacement, industrial control and instrumentation front-ends, telecommunications backplane bridging, PCI bus controllers, and legacy ASIC prototyping. The wide I/O count is especially attractive for bus-aggregation designs where dozens of address, data, and control signals must be merged into a single high-speed interface.

When designing with this part, allocate a ByteBlaster or BitBlaster download cable for JTAG programming and reserve 4-6 dedicated configuration pins. Decoupling must follow the FLEX 10KA reference design: at minimum, one 0.1 uF X7R per VCC pin and one bulk 33 uF tantalum on the 3.3 V core rail. Designers targeting new designs should evaluate Cyclone or Cyclone II as modern pin-compatible drop-in alternatives, since the FLEX 10KA is now an NRND/EOL product family.

Drop-in alternatives for EPF10K30AQI240-1 — same package, pin-to-pin compatible. Different-package parts requiring PCB rework are excluded.

Variants in this series

Same-series models that are drop-in compatible with EPF10K30AQI240-1 (same form factor and footprint) — differing in Process Technology, Package, Operating Temperature, Propagation Delay, Family.

EPF10K30AQC240-1

Intel

Process Technology: 0.42 µm CMOS

Package: 240-pin BFQFP (PQFP, gull-wing)

Operating Temperature: 0 °C to +70 °C (Commercial)