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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 ...

Synopsys, Inc. today announced the use of its comprehensive and proven Virtual Prototyping Solution in Altera Corporation's newly announced SoC FPGA Virtual Target software development platform. The Virtual Target enables engineers to begin writing software for systems based on Altera's SoC FPGAs months before hardware availability, reducing development time and costs. Altera chose to leverage Synopsys' Virtual Prototyping Solution due to its com...

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 the availability of its latest development kit targeting Stratix IV FPGAs. The Stratix IV E FPGA Development Kit features the industry's highest density, highest performance FPGA available. The kit provides users with a comprehensive design environment that includes the hardware and software needed to immediately begin prototyping their high-density designs.

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 released today the latest version of its industry-proven Quartus II development software, the industry’s number one software in performance and productivity for FPGA design. Quartus II software version 12.0 provides customers additional productivity and performance advantages, such as up to 4X faster compile times for high-performance 28-nm designs.

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 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.

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...

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.