Altera receives Global FPGA Technology Innovation Leadership Award

Altera’s programmable devices enable customers to optimise their designs in big data and search applications, data center acceleration, military communications and high performance computing, which need more precise calculations.

Viswam Sathiyanarayanan, research analyst and collaborator on the report, Frost & Sullivan, stated, “While many semiconductor companies have attempted to implement floating point operators into FPGAs, they reported to Frost & Sullivan they have not been successful in delivering efficient performance, reducing power consumption, and increasing speed at the same time. Some of the competing DSP systems and GPUs (graphic processing units) provide support for floating point calculation, but Altera’s Generation 10 FPGAs deliver this capability along with the ubiquitous connectivity and hardware flexibility available with FPGAs.”

The Global FPGA Technology Innovation Leadership Award is awarded under the Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards Program, which recognises best-in-class products, companies and individuals.

“We are honored to be recognized for our technology leadership in delivering the first FPGAs and SoCs with hardened floating point operators,” said Alex Grbic, Senior Director of Software, IP and DSP marketing, Altera. “With this innovation, Altera FPGAs and SoCs offer a performance and power efficiency advantage over microprocessors and GPUs in an expanded range of applications.”