Cyclone III
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Cyclone III is a low-power, high-density FPGA family from Altera (now Intel) designed for cost-sensitive and portable applications.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cyclone III canonical | 3 |
| Cyclone III LS | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7388024 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cyclone III Context triple: [Cyclone, familyMember, Cyclone III]
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A.
Cyclone II
Cyclone II is a family of Altera (now Intel) FPGA devices designed as a successor to the original Cyclone series, offering higher performance and greater logic density for cost-sensitive applications.
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B.
3.7L Cyclone V6
The 3.7L Cyclone V6 is a naturally aspirated Ford V6 engine known for its use in modern Mustangs and other Ford vehicles, offering a balance of performance, efficiency, and reliability.
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C.
Crusoe microprocessor
The Crusoe microprocessor is a low-power, x86-compatible CPU line from Transmeta that used code-morphing software to translate x86 instructions to an underlying VLIW architecture, targeting laptops and mobile devices.
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D.
Icestorm
Icestorm is the energy-efficient, low-power CPU core microarchitecture used for the efficiency cores in Apple's M1 system-on-a-chip.
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E.
Stratix
Stratix is a high-performance family of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) designed by Altera (now part of Intel) for demanding digital logic and signal processing applications.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cyclone III Target entity description: Cyclone III is a low-power, high-density FPGA family from Altera (now Intel) designed for cost-sensitive and portable applications.
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A.
Cyclone II
Cyclone II is a family of Altera (now Intel) FPGA devices designed as a successor to the original Cyclone series, offering higher performance and greater logic density for cost-sensitive applications.
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B.
3.7L Cyclone V6
The 3.7L Cyclone V6 is a naturally aspirated Ford V6 engine known for its use in modern Mustangs and other Ford vehicles, offering a balance of performance, efficiency, and reliability.
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C.
Crusoe microprocessor
The Crusoe microprocessor is a low-power, x86-compatible CPU line from Transmeta that used code-morphing software to translate x86 instructions to an underlying VLIW architecture, targeting laptops and mobile devices.
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D.
Icestorm
Icestorm is the energy-efficient, low-power CPU core microarchitecture used for the efficiency cores in Apple's M1 system-on-a-chip.
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E.
Stratix
Stratix is a high-performance family of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) designed by Altera (now part of Intel) for demanding digital logic and signal processing applications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
FPGA family
ⓘ
programmable logic device family ⓘ |
| brandOwner |
Intel
ⓘ
linked to:
Intel Corporation
|
| configurationInterface |
Active Serial
ⓘ
Fast Passive Parallel ⓘ Passive Serial ⓘ |
| configurationTechnology | SRAM-based ⓘ |
| designGoal |
cost-sensitive applications
ⓘ
portable applications ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
DSP blocks
ⓘ
configuration via external flash ⓘ embedded memory blocks ⓘ low dynamic power consumption ⓘ low static power consumption ⓘ multi-voltage I/O support ⓘ on-chip oscillator ⓘ phase-locked loops ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Cyclone III LS
ⓘ
linked to:
Cyclone III
Cyclone III low-power devices ⓘ |
| introducedBy | Altera ⓘ |
| logicElementType | Adaptive Logic Module ⓘ |
| manufacturer |
Altera
ⓘ
Intel ⓘ
linked to:
Intel Corporation
|
| marketPosition | low-cost FPGA ⓘ |
| packageOptions |
BGA packages
ⓘ
QFP packages ⓘ |
| powerCharacteristic | low power ⓘ |
| predecessor | Cyclone II ⓘ |
| productFamily | Cyclone FPGA series ⓘ |
| programmingModel | hardware description language based ⓘ |
| successor | Cyclone IV ⓘ |
| supports |
JTAG configuration
ⓘ
parallel configuration ⓘ serial configuration devices ⓘ |
| supportsLanguage |
VHDL
ⓘ
Verilog ⓘ |
| supportsStandard |
HSTL I/O
ⓘ
LVCMOS I/O ⓘ LVTTL I/O ⓘ SSTL I/O ⓘ |
| supportsVoltage |
1.2 V core supply
ⓘ
1.8 V I/O standards ⓘ 2.5 V I/O standards ⓘ 3.3 V I/O standards ⓘ |
| technologyNode | 65 nm CMOS ⓘ |
| toolchain |
Quartus II
ⓘ
linked to:
Quartus design software
|
| useCase |
automotive systems
ⓘ
communications equipment ⓘ consumer electronics ⓘ industrial control ⓘ portable medical devices ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Cyclone III Description of subject: Cyclone III is a low-power, high-density FPGA family from Altera (now Intel) designed for cost-sensitive and portable applications.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cyclone III