Altera and Applied Micro Circuits also known as AppliedMicro, today announced they have signed a memorandum of understanding designed to result in the joint development and marketing of optimized solutions for data center applications.

See Altera successfully demonstrate 32 Gbps transceiver performance on 20 nm silicon developed on TSMC's 20SoC process technology. These 20 nm transceivers feature the lowest power consumption, fastest timing closure, and superior signal integrity needed for the most demanding applications.

Altera today announced the industry’s first demonstration of an FPGA Home Agent enabled by the Intel QuickPath Interconnect protocol 1.1. Connecting to Intel’s Sandy Bridge XEON processors, the demonstration leverages an Altera Stratix V FPGA configured as the Home Agent, and it supports both the Caching Agent and Home Agent in a Pactron Vigor Development Platform.

Altera Corporation today announced its 28 nm Cyclone V GT FPGA completed compliance testing with the PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 specification. Available in production today, the Cyclone V GT FPGA is the industry’s first low-cost, low-power FPGA to achieve PCIe 2.0 interoperability with data rates of 5 Gbps.

Altera Corporation today announced it will demonstrate how its FPGA-based solutions are shaping the future of OTN applications at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC) in Anaheim, Calif. on March 19 – March 21, 2013.

Altera Corporation today reaffirmed their commitment to a long-term partnership to set new milestones in FPGA innovation. TSMC is Altera's primary foundry, supplying a wide array of processes to fulfill Altera's product portfolio, including soon-to-be released 20 nm products, existing mainstream products, and long-lived legacy components.

Altera and Intel have today revealed that the companies have entered into an agreement for the future manufacture of Altera FPGAs on Intel's 14 nm tri-gate transistor technology. These next-generation products, which target ultra high-performance systems for military, wireline communications, cloud networking, and compute and storage applications, will enable breakthrough levels of performance and power efficiencies not otherwise possible.

Altera expands its FPGA-based solutions targeting smart energy systems with a High-availability Seamless Redundancy and Parallel Redundancy Protocol reference design targeting smart grid substation automation equipment. Developed jointly with Flexibilis Oy the IEC 62439-3-compliant reference design includes Flexibilis Redundant Switch intellectual property implemented on an Altera low-power, low-cost Cyclone-class FPGA or Cyclone V SoC.

Altera announce that at Embedded World 2013 in Nurnberg, Germany, it will showcase its embedded hardware and software solutions for developing with its Cyclone V SoC devices. Visitors will see how the advanced performance and flexibility of Altera’s SoC devices can deliver unprecedented levels of productivity for next-generation embedded design.

This new demo shows real-time, optical FPGA technology breaking through the barriers of traditional copper interconnect. The video features Dr. Mike Peng Li, an IEEE and Altera Fellow and Lux Joshi, Product Manager for High-End FPGAs at Altera.

The BeRadio Direct Sampling Software Defined Radio Development Kit turns the BeMicro SDK into a complete SDR, and can serve up I/Q data directly to your network via UDP without a PC. This short video demonstrates an AM radio on the BeRadio Software Defined Radio development board with the BeMicro SDK FPGA-based MCU evaluation board, and shows the radio receiving the AM signal through a built-in antenna, converting it to a digital signal, filterin...

Altera announce that it has received the 2012 Excellent Core Partner Award from Huawei Technologies. Huawei presented Altera with this award for its excellence in delivering quality, leading-edge products with superior technical support at its annual 2012 Core Partner Convention in Shenzhen, China.

Altera announce the first shipments of its 28 nm SoC devices, which combine a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor system with FPGA logic on a single device. Altera SoCs include several distinctive features that enable developers in the wireless communications, industrial, video surveillance, automotive and medical equipment markets to create custom SoC variants optimized for system power, board space, performance and cost requirements.

Altera and ARM have jointly developed the first FPGA-adaptive, unified debugger for Altera's family of SoC devices. The ARM Development Suite Altera Edition Toolkit removes the debugging barrier between the CPU subsystem and on-chip FPGA, giving you an unprecedented level of visibility and control through a common, familiar software debugging interface.

Altera Corporation and ARM today announced that, with a unique agreement, the companies have jointly developed a DS-5 embedded software development toolkit with FPGA-adaptive debug capabilities for Altera SoC devices.

A video demonstrating how to drive backplanes (and the key features of) using Altera's Stratix V FPGA Transceivers. Learn more here.

Altera Corporation today announced the release of its Quartus II software version 12.1, the industry’s number one design suite in performance and productivity for CPLD, FPGA, SoC FPGA and HardCopy ASIC designs.

Altera Corporation today announced the FPGA industry’s first Software Development Kit for OpenCL which combines the massively parallel architecture of an FPGA with the OpenCL parallel programming model. The SDK allows system developers and programmers familiar with C to quickly and easily develop high-performance, power-efficient FPGA-based applications in a high-level language.

Altera has today announced the successfull benchmarkmarking of complex, high-performance floating-point DSP designs on 28 nm FPGA devices. Independent technology analysis firm Berkeley Design Technology, Inc. (BDTI) verified the efficiency and ease-of-use of Altera’s floating-point DSP design flow as well as the performance of demanding floating-point DSP applications on Altera’s Stratix V and Arria V 28 nm FPGA development kits.

RFEL is now a member of the recently-launched, Altera Design Service Network (DSN) of Altera-qualified design experts. With ever shortening product development times and increasing product complexity, customers need to be able to engage with design service providers with the relevant expertise, explained Michael Sharpless, Worldwide DSN Program Manager at Altera.