Aquantia Corp. announced the AQcite product line of FPGA-programmable Multi-Gigabit Ethernet Physical Layer (PHY) devices, integrating Aquantia's AQrate BASE-T PHY with a Xilinx® Kintex®-7 FPGA. The new AQcite product line targets a vast range of applications such as Audio-Visual (AV) over Ethernet, machine vision, data center, enterprise, 5G wireless, industrial, metro environments and more. With the rising cost of Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), many companies are resorting to develop, test and commercialize products based on FPGAs. In applications where transport of data and networking is required, Ethernet is often the preferred choice. Foreseeing the need to deliver smaller footprints and cost advantages to its customers, Aquantia has developed AQcite, a unique device that integrates both Multi-Gigabit BASE-T PHY and FPGA functions in a single-chip package. The first such product unveiled ON Jan. 30, 2017, the AQLX107, is a single-port FPGA-programmable Multi-Gigabit Ethernet PHY device. Aquantia's AQLX107 enables customers to engineer their own unique protocol converter, bridge/controller, data multiplexing or adaptation layer functionality leveraging standard Ethernet protocol. The integrated Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA supports 12.5 Gbps HSIO differential SerDes signals and a variety of GPIO interfaces. It also supports the standard Xilinx programming SW tools. AQLX107's integrated BASE-T PHY supports the following features: Integrated MACsec (IEEE-802.1ae) and PTP (IEEE-1588v2): Enables refresh of legacy switches without an ASIC re-spin. Full support for AES-256 and stand-alone operation: IEEE 802.3an/bz and NBASE-T compliant featuring AQrate Adaptive Rate Operation: 10GBASE-T over up to 100m of Cat6A cables; 5GBASE-T and 2.5GBASE-T over 100m+ of Cat5e or Cat6 cables; Also backward-compatible to 1000BASE-T and 100BASE-TX. Robust Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) performance: Designed for resilient operation when exposed to RFI/EMI. Aquantia's AQLX107 is currently sampling. Production release is scheduled for April 2017. Please contact sales@aquantia.com for further information including Aquantia's AQLX107 development board.