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Altera announced it successfully completed interoperability testing between its Stratix IV GT FPGA and the Bandwidth Engine device from MoSys in a serial memory application. Stratix IV GT FPGAs leverage the GigaChip™ Interface to interoperate with MoSys's Bandwidth Engine device, providing designers of 100G wireline applications, such as traffic management and packet processing, a high-performance, high-bandwidth memory solution. With its Strat...

Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced that its variable-precision digital signal processing (DSP) block architecture won the DesignCon 2011 DesignVision Award in the Semiconductor and IC category. Altera's variable-precision DSP block architecture was recognized by DesignVision Award judges for its ability to enable high-precision, high-performance digital signal processing in FPGAs that efficiently supports many different precision l...

Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced that Katherine E. Schuelke, senior vice president, general counsel, and secretary of Altera, is a recipient of the 27th Annual YWCA of Silicon Valley Tribute to Women and Industry (TWIN) Award. The TWIN Award is one of Silicon Valley's most prestigious awards. The award recognizes successful women executives for outstanding achievement in leadership and in making critical contributions to their co...

Delivering the industry's most comprehensive set of device options tailored to customers' diverse design requirements, Altera Corporation today announced its portfolio of 28-nm devices. Altera is providing customers clearly differentiated solutions across the new Cyclone V and Arria V FPGA families, the recently expanded Stratix V FPGA and previously announced HardCopy V ASIC families.

Altera announced it successfully passed the first Ethernet Alliance® Higher Speed Ethernet (HSE) subcommittee interoperability event tests targeting products designed to support 100-Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) systems. Passing the interoperability tests validates the performance of Altera's industry-leading transceiver technology featured in its Stratix® IV GT FPGAs and demonstrates to equipment manufacturers a low-risk solution that can be used...

Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) certified a safety-critical avionics system that includes a DO-254/ED-80-certifiable version of Altera's Nios® II embedded processor. Thales Avionics implemented a safety-critical version of the Nios II embedded processor in an Altera® HardCopy® ASIC for use in its family of integrated electronic standby instruments rather than developing a custom ASIC...

Altera announced today it has acquired Avalon Microelectronics Inc., an industry leader in flexible Optical Transport Network (OTN) IP, for use in its FPGA and ASIC products. With the acquisition of Avalon, Altera expands its portfolio of customizable IP solutions for OTN applications, supporting data rates at 1.2G, 2.5G and 10G, as well as 40G and 100G.

Altera announced it was named the “Best Financially Managed Semiconductor Company” by the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA). Altera was presented with the award at the GSA Awards Dinner Celebration held December 9 in Santa Clara, Calif. The GSA Awards Dinner Celebration recognizes semiconductor companies that have demonstrated excellence through their success, vision, strategy and future opportunities in the industry.

Expanding its most popular CPLD offering, Altera announced the availability of the new MAX V device family. The MAX V family uses half the total power compared to competitive CPLDs while maintaining the instant-on, single-chip, non-volatile characteristics of the original MAX series.

Altera announced the release of its Quartus II development software version 10.1, the programmable logic industry's number-one software in performance and productivity for CPLD, FPGA and HardCopy® ASIC design. The Quartus II Subscription Edition software version 10.1 includes the availability of a beta version of Qsys, Altera's next-generation system-integration tool, which features the industry's first FPGA-optimized network-on-chip-based inter...

Altera announced its 28-nm process technology strategy targeting its 28-nm product portfolio. In addition to the previously announced support for TSMC’s 28-nm High Performance (28HP) process technology for its high-end FPGA family, Altera will also utilize TSMC's 28-nm Low-Power (28LP) process technology for use in its low-cost and midrange product families. Leveraging two distinct process technologies in its 28-nm product portfolio enables Al...

Did you know that soft-core FPGA processors provide unique benefits that you can't achieve with commercial off-the-shelf systems? Learn five reasons why you should put your processor on an FPGA. Watch this 9-minute video to get more details on: -Design flexibility, with a customizable peripheral set -Protection against processor obsolescence -Multi-core support -Hardware acceleration -Familiar software tools

To accelerate the integration of programmable logic and processors in embedded systems, Altera Corporation today announced its Embedded Initiative. With this initiative, Altera is providing designers a single FPGA design flow based on its Quartus® II development software—including the new Qsys system-level integration tool, a common FPGA intellectual property (IP) library, and new ARM® Cortex™-A9 MPCore™ and MIPS® Te...

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Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today announced that, based on quarter-to-date results and the company's outlook for the remainder of the quarter, third quarter revenue is now expected to be 10 to 14 percent above second quarter levels. The company's prior guidance was for sequential growth of 4 to 8 percent.

Altera today announced it will demonstrate the industry's first single-chip 4K, format-conversion reference design with integrated serial digital interface (SDI) at IBC2010 in Hall 5, Booth A19, September 9 to 14, at the RAI Center in Amsterdam. Today's digital cinema and the next generation of Pro A/V applications, including digital signage, live events and video conferencing are driving the adoption of 4K resolution.

Altera announced the release of its Quartus II development software version 10.0, the programmable logic industry's number-one software in performance and productivity for CPLD, FPGA and HardCopy® ASIC designs. Quartus II software v10.0 continues to provide an industry-leading productivity advantage by delivering 2X to 3X faster compile times than the nearest competitor for high-density designs. The latest software release includes support for ...

Expanding its FPGA solutions for the surveillance market, Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) announced today the industry's first high-definition (HD), surveillance internet protocol (IP) camera reference design on a single FPGA. This unique solution features Altera's low-cost Cyclone® III or Cyclone IV FPGAs and intellectual property from Eyelytics and Apical supporting AltaSens' 1080p60 A3372E3-4T and Aptina's 720p60 MT9M033 HD Wide Dynamic ...

Altera announced its Stratix IV GT FPGA received TechAmerica Foundation's American Technology Award in the electronic components category. TechAmerica recognized Altera for demonstrating excellence in technology with its Stratix IV GT FPGA, which was designed specifically to meet the performance and system bandwidth requirements of today's high-bandwidth systems.