The Quartus II Arria 10 edition v14.0, 20nm FPGA and SoC design software claimed to the industry’s most advanced, has been released by Altera. Providing compile times claimed to be two times faster than the nearest competitor, the software allows users to shorten design iterations and rapidly close timing on their design. 

Joining the Embedded Vision Alliance (EVA), Altera will provide the computer vision industry group with insights on programmable logic technologies enabling designers to use FPGAs, SoCs, IP and design tools for embedded vision applications in the industrial, surveillance, automotive, military, broadcasting and consumer sectors.

How FPGA technology is being used in industrial applications to provide performance with flexibility, and to lower system costs. By Stefano Zammattio, Altera.

An updated version of Quartus II software, from Altera, has been released with the company claiming the update allows users to achieve the fastest FPGA and SoC design closure in the industry. Quartus II software version 14.0 includes a rapid recompile feature that reduces compile times by up to 4X when making small design changes and a PCIe IP solution that delivers enterprise-class performance. Version 14.0 also offers expanded AXI support in th...

Altera announced that its FPGAs are central to software defined data centre (SSDC) development, and that Altera is working with Microsoft Research and Bing to accelerate portions of the web search engine. Altera's field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) can accelerate the processing of large amounts of data on servers, which helps address big data challenges and massive distributed workloads.

Join embedded processor expert Jim Turley from Silicon Insider as he examines the key design considerations for working with SoC FPGAs. Watch this video, part of a five-part series, to explore the software development tools will you need to program and debug systems that use SoC FPGAs.

Join embedded processor expert Jim Turley from Silicon Insider as he examines the key design considerations for working with SoC FPGAs. Watch this video, part of a five-part series, to explore the system cost and power advantages for SoC FPGAs.

Join embedded processor expert Jim Turley from Silicon Insider as he examines the key design considerations for working with SoC FPGAs. Watch this video, part of a five-part series, to explore how an SoC FPGA can help you build a more reliable system.

An agreement has been struck between Lime Microsystems and Altera to develop and promote programmable solutions for a broad range of broadband wireless markets. The Strategic Cooperation Agreement seeks to develop optimised FPRF transceivers, digital RF and baseband solutions which will enable designers to lower power, reduce overall costs, and shorten time-to-market. In addition, the agreement hopes to enable the customisation of designs for key...

Join embedded processor expert Jim Turley from Silicon Insider as he examines the key design considerations for working with SoC FPGAs. Watch this video, part of a five-part series, to explore what determines the system performance of your SoC FPGA.

Join embedded processor expert Jim Turley from Silicon Insider as he examines the key design considerations for working with SoC FPGAs. Watch this five-part video series to learn about SoC FPGAs, why you might consider them for your next design, and which type to choose.

Enabling designers to start their MAX 10 FPGA designs immediately, Altera have announced the availability of Quartus II beta software and early access documentation for MAX 10 FPGAs. Based on TSMC’s 55nm embedded flash process technology, MAX 10 FPGAs revolutionize non-volatile FPGA integration by delivering advanced processing capabilities into a small form factor, low-cost, instant-on programmable logic device. 

Altera's Stratix 10 FPGA and SoC customers are successfully achieving the anticipated two times core performance gain in their designs compared to previous generation high-performance programmable devices. The company is working closely with several early access customers in multiple markets to benchmark their next-generation designs using Stratix 10 FPGA performance evaluation tools.

Altera’s 20nm Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs are now available in TSMC’s patented, fine-pitch copper bump-based packaging technology. Altera is the first company to adopt this technology in commercial production. “TSMC has provided a very advanced and robust integrated package solution for our Arria 10 devices, the highest-density monolithic 20 nm FPGA die in the industry,” said Bill Mazotti, vice president of worldwide operation...

FPGA technology, based on Intel’s 14nm Tri-Gate process, has been successfully demonstrated by Altera. The 14nm-based FPGA test chips incorporate key IP components – transceivers, mixed-signal IP and digital logic – used in Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs.

Altera is industry's first programmable logic company to integrate hardened IEEE 754-compliant, floating-point operators in an FPGA, delivering unparallelled levels of DSP performance, designer productivity and logic efficiency. The hardened floating point DSP blocks are integrated in Altera’s 20nm Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs, as well as 14nm Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs.

Harmonic, a company who deals in video delivery infrastructure, has chosen Altera's 4Kp60-capable H.265 EME engine to dramatically improve efficiency and performance of Harmonic's PURE Compression Engine for the delivery of 4Kp60 content. The EME is a server co-processing solution based on the company's Stratix V FPGAs.

Simplifying the design of point-of-load power solutions, a power conversion solution has been announced by Altera. Comprising a monolithic 40A driver plus synchronous MOSFET powertrain, the solution is optimised to meet the core requirements of Altera's high-performance Stratix V, Arria 10, and Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs.

Extending the existing manufacturing agreement, Altera and Intel will collaborate to develop multi-die devices that leverage Intel’s world-class package and assembly capabilities and Altera’s leading-edge programmable logic technology. Under the current agreement, Intel is manufacturing Altera’s Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs using the 14nm Tri-Gate process.

An open development alliance based on IBM's POWER microprocessor architecture, Altera joins the IBM OpenPOWER Foundation. The company will collaborate with IBM and other members to develop high-performance compute solutions integrating IBM POWER CPUs with Altera’s FPGA-based acceleration technologies for use in next-generation data centres.