Altera today announced it is shipping in production the highest density member of its 40-nm Stratix IV FPGA family. Featuring 820K logic elements (LEs), the Stratix IV E EP4SE820 device is ideally suited for a variety of high-end applications that require high-density, high-performance and low-power FPGAs, including ASIC prototyping and emulation, wireless, wireline, military, computer and storage. With this announcement, the rollout of Altera's ...

Altera today announced its high-performance Stratix IV GT FPGAs featuring integrated 11.3-Gbps transceivers were selected by NEC Corporation for use in a 100G transponder card for its Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexed (DWDM) system, one of the most advanced DWDM systems in the world.

Concerned about power consumption and device cost? Watch this 7-minute video to learn about a development kit featuring a low-cost FPGA that addresses both of these challenges. What's more, the FPGA family features the only low-cost device with PCI Express x4 functionality.

Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced first quarter sales of $402.3 million, up 10 percent from the fourth quarter of 2009 and up 52 percent from the first quarter of 2009. New product sales increased 29 percent sequentially. First quarter net income was $153.2 million, $0.50 per diluted share, compared with net income of $103.0 million, $0.34 per diluted share, in the fourth quarter of 2009 and $44.0 million, $0.15 per diluted share,...

Altera Corporation announced its next-generation 28-nm Stratix V FPGA family, the industry's highest bandwidth FPGA. Offering up to 1.6 Tbps of serial switching capability, Stratix V FPGAs leverage a myriad of new technologies and a leading-edge 28-nm process to reduce the cost and power of high-bandwidth applications.

Altera Corporation today announced the interoperability of its Stratix® IV GT FPGAs with 40G Quad Small Form-Factor Pluggable (QSFP) optical modules from Avago Technologies. QSFP optical modules provide 40-Gbps data rates across a single link of fiber-optic cable. Leveraging the 11.3-Gbps embedded transceivers featured in Stratix IV GT FPGAs, designers can now take advantage of the flexibility and performance benefits of FPGAs to bridge 40G QSF...

Altera Corporation today announced production shipment of its Cyclone® IV FPGAs. The company also announced the availability of the Cyclone IV GX-based Transceiver Starter Kit. Altera's Cyclone IV FPGAs are designed for cost-sensitive, small form-factor applications in the wireless, wireline, broadcast, industrial and consumer markets.These devices have an unprecedented combination of low cost, 25 percent lower power compared to the previous ...

Altera Corporation and Apical Ltd. announced today the world's first high-definition wide dynamic range (WDR) CMOS image-sensor-processing solution for video-surveillance cameras. Altera is demonstrating the solution at the International Security Conference (ISC) West Expo from March 24 to 26 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Altera and Apical's complete solution ensures superb video-image quality regardless of varying lighting conditions, a major stumbling ...

Altera Corporation announced its Stratix IV FPGAs passed the Interlaken Alliance's device interoperability testing. Altera certified its high-performance FPGAs interface with third-party components using the Interlaken protocol. Stratix IV GT FPGAs passed interoperability testing at 6.25-Gbps line rates and are the industry's only Interlaken solution capable of supporting line rates of 10 Gbps. Device interoperability testing validates Stratix IV...

Continuing to offer innovative solutions to meet today's growing safety standards, Altera Corporation announced an industrial safety data package for automation applications. The announcement was made at the Embedded World Exhibition and Conference in Nuremberg, Germany.

Altera Corporation today announced it is shipping in volume production the first members of its 40-nm Arria II GX FPGA family. The Arria II GX device family delivers customers a low-power, low-cost and high-performance FPGA solution specifically targeting 3-Gbps transceiver applications. Arria II GX FPGAs are currently leveraged in a wide variety of high-volume applications in the broadcast, military, wireless and wireline markets.

Altera Corporation announced its Cyclone III LS FPGAs have received prominent recognition from editors in the electronics industry. Editors from EDN and Embedded Computing Design and OpenSystems Media honored Altera's innovation for its Cyclone III LS FPGAs offering low power consumption, high density with small form factor packages, and security features.

Altera Corporation announced new innovations that will be incorporated into upcoming 28-nm FPGAs. Embedded HardCopy Blocks, a new method for partial reconfiguration and embedded 28-Gbps transceivers will dramatically improve the density and I/O performance of nexra-generation Altera® FPGAs and further strengthen their competitive position versus ASICs and ASSPs.

With applications needing to store more data for longer periods of time, SATA provides an efficient, cost-effective storage interface. Watch this new 7-minute video for a demo showing how easy it is to take advantage of the data storage capabilities of SATA using 40-nm transceiver FPGAs.

Altera Corporation has announced the availability of its latest development kit targeting Stratix IV FPGAs. The Stratix IV E FPGA Development Kit features the industry's highest density, highest performance FPGA available. The kit provides users with a comprehensive design environment that includes the hardware and software needed to immediately begin prototyping their high-density designs.

Altera Corporation today announced its high-performance Stratix® IV FPGAs have been designed into XtremeData Inc.'s next-generation dbX family of database appliances designed specifically for the unconstrained analysis and exploration of large databases.

Altera Corporation today announced the immediate availability of the industry's first intellectual property (IP) core supporting the RapidIO 2.1 specification. Altera's Serial RapidIO IP core supports up to four lanes at 5.0 GBaud per lane, addressing the increased bandwidth and reliability needs of the wireless and military markets. The IP core is optimized for Stratix® IV FPGAs with embedded transceivers and is supported within Quartus® II so...

Expanding on the success of the Cyclone FPGA series and extending its transceiver leadership, Altera Corporation today announced the new Cyclone IV FPGA family. Responding to increased low-cost bandwidth needs driven by the demand for mobile video, voice, and data access, and the hunger for high-quality 3D images, the new Cyclone IV FPGA family adds support for mainstream serial protocols while offering an optimal balance of low cost, low power ...

Altera Corporation today announced the release of Quartus® II software version 9.1, the industry's number-one software in performance and productivity for CPLD, FPGA and HardCopy® ASIC designs. New features and enhancements within Quartus II software v9.1 reduce compile times 20 percent versus the previous software release, while continuing to deliver on average 2X to 3X faster compile times compared to competing high-density 40-nm and 65...

Altera today announced it has started shipping in production its Stratix® IV GT EP4S100G2 FPGA, the industry's first FPGA featuring integrated 11.3-Gbps transceivers. Stratix IV GT FPGAs are the only single-chip devices available today that meet the high-speed bandwidth requirements for next-generation framer, MAC, bridging and switching applications for 100-Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and 100-Gigabit Optical Transport Networks (OTN). Altera's pro...