Altera has announced availability of the Cyclone III LS FPGA Development Kit. The kit features hardware and software solutions that allow customers to prototype and test designs for Altera's Cyclone III LS FPGAs, the lowest power FPGAs at less than 0.25W of static power for 200K logic elements (LEs). Customers can take advantage of the redundancy and information security features of the Cyclone III LS FPGA for a number of military and industrial ...

Altera has announced it is enhancing its MAX II CPLD family by offering industrial-grade temperature ranges and lowering the power of its MAX IIZ devices. The MAX IIZ CPLDs' combination of density, I/O, and small package size, now with 55 percent lower static power, make them an ideal fit for cost- and power-sensitive applications. These new capabilities open MAX IIZ CPLDs to a broader range of markets such as industrial, computer and office auto...

Altera Corporation has announced its RapidIO MegaCore function, version 9.0, successfully passed RIOLAB's Device Interoperability Level-3 (DIL-3) testing. Altera is the first FPGA vendor to offer a Serial RapidIO intellectual property (IP) core that is fully qualified by RIOLAB.

Altera Corporation today announced it increased the high-end density range of its 40-nm Stratix IV E FPGAs to an industry-leading 820K logic elements (LEs). The Stratix IV EP4SE820 FPGA is the industry's highest density, highest performance and lowest power FPGA in its class. The EP4SE820 FPGA is ideally suited for a variety of high-end digital applications that require resource-rich FPGAs, including ASIC prototyping and emulation, wireline, wire...

Altera Corporation today announced it is shipping volume production of its 40-nm Stratix IV GX EP4SGX230 FPGAs. The Stratix IV device was the industry's first 40-nm FPGA available when it began shipping at the end of 2008 and it continues to lead the market as the only 40-nm FPGA in volume production. The Stratix IV family offers the highest density and highest performance FPGAs available today, and is used in a variety of end customer's high-spe...

Altera has announced that Sumitomo Electric Industries is using its 40-nm Stratix IV GX FPGAs in a low-density parity-check (LDPC) high-speed measurement system that verifies the forward error correction (FEC) code for high-speed digital signal processing.

Altera has announced availability of the Stratix IV GX FPGA Development Kit. The kit features hardware and software solutions for the rapid creation of designs using Altera's high-performance 40-nm Stratix IV GX FPGAs with integrated 8.5-Gbps transceivers. The development kit provides an ideal environment for designing and testing high-speed serial interfaces, such as PCI Express (PCIe) Gen2, with up to x8-lane configurations.

Altera has announced it has started shipping Arria II GX devices, its third family of 40-nm FPGAs. The Arria II GX family with integrated transceivers joins Stratix IV GX and Stratix IV GT FPGAs and HardCopyIV GX ASICs to extend the industry' broadest portfolio of transceiver FPGA and ASIC solutions.

Altera has announced the availability of the Transceiver Signal Integrity Development Kit, Stratix IV GX Edition. This full-featured hardware development platform has an Altera Stratix IV GX FPGA with transceivers that operate up to 8.5 Gbps, allowing engineers to prototype and test their high-speed interfaces quickly and easily. By utilising this kit, customers can test drive Altera's new 40-nm Stratix IV GX FPGA under their specific design syst...

Altera Corporation today announced it will showcase its broadcast solutions and a number of industry firsts at the 2009 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in Las Vegas. The combination of Altera's 40-nm FPGAs and HardCopy ASICs and broadcast solutions offers customers integration options that were previously unachievable.

Altera has announced the availability of the Transceiver Signal Integrity Development Kit, Stratix IV GX Edition. This full-featured hardware development platform has an Altera Stratix IV GX FPGA with transceivers that operate up to 8.5 Gbps, allowing engineers to prototype and test their high-speed interfaces quickly and easily. By utilizing this kit, customers can test drive Altera's new 40-nm Stratix IV GX FPGA under their specific design syst...

Altera has announced that Harmonic has chosen its Stratix III FPGAs for its next-generation high-definition (HD) H.264 1080p video broadcast encoder. Delivering the right combination of performance, programmability, flexibility and low power consumption, the Stratix III devices help Harmonic to improve video quality while consuming significantly less bandwidth.

Providing the underlying technology to accelerate the video transfer process, Altera Corporation today announced Panasonic has selected Altera's Arria GX FPGAs, PCI Express (PCIe) MegaCore IP and Nios® II processor solution for its new AJ-PCD35, five-slot P2 (tapeless format) memory-card drive.

Altera has announced that its “Military, Aerospace and Defense DSP Productivity Seminars” will be presented jointly by representatives from Altera and The MathWorks. Seminar attendees learn how leveraging an Altera and The MathWorks DSP development flow enables military and aerospace designers to improve their DSP design productivity and reduce engineering costs. The seminars are held on location at customer facilities throughout North Ameri...

Altera has announced its 40-nm Stratix IV GX FPGAs are compliant with version 2.0 of the PCI Express (PCIe) standard, providing users a comprehensive PCIe solution for high-bandwidth applications. The devices successfully passed the testing procedures of the PCI-SIG compliance workshop and are now included on the PCI-SIG Integrators List. Stratix IV GX FPGAs achieved compliance for PCIe 1.1 and PCIe 2.0 up to x8 lane configurations for end-point ...

Altera today announced its collaboration with National Semiconductor to drive the transmission, processing and display of digital data within automotive applications. The graphics interconnect solutions being jointly developed by Altera and National address the growing use of digital video in automotive infotainment and driver-assistance applications.

Altera has announced silicon availability of the industry’s highest density transceiver FPGA. As the second member of the Altera Stratix IV GX FPGA family to ship, the EP4SGX530 is 60 percent larger than the largest transceiver FPGA on the market. The device offers 530K logic elements (LEs), up to 48 transceivers operating at up to 8.5 Gbps, 20.3 Mbits of RAM and 1,040 embedded multipliers. Stratix IV GX devices target numerous applications...

Altera Corporation has announced its 40-nm Stratix IV FPGAs received the Product of the Year award from Electronic Products China magazine. This award marks the sixth award the Stratix IV family has received since its announcement in May 2008.

Altera Corporation has announced availability of its Embedded Systems Development Kit, Cyclone III FPGA Edition, a comprehensive platform that accelerates the prototyping and development of FPGA-based embedded systems. This multi-board development kit features a Cyclone III EP3C120 device, the industry's highest density, low-cost FPGA currently shipping and combines a robust set of on-board memories, I/O interfaces, peripherals and pre-built refe...