Altera Corporation today announced the availability of Quartus® II beta software and early access documentation for MAX® 10 FPGAs, Altera’s latest addition to its Generation 10 portfolio of FPGAs and SoCs. Using TSMC’s 55 nm embedded flash process technology, MAX 10 FPGAs revolutionize non-volatile FPGA integration by delivering advanced processing capabilities in a small-form-factor, low-cost, […]
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Altera Demonstrates FPGA Technology Based on Intel 14 nm Tri-Gate Process
Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) announced the demonstration of its FPGA technology based on Intel’s 14 nm Tri-Gate process. The 14 nm-based FPGA test chips incorporate key intellectual property (IP) components – transceivers, mixed-signal IP and digital logic – used in Stratix® 10 FPGAs and SoCs. Altera and Intel collaborated on the development of the industry’s […]
Altera Announces High-Efficiency Power Conversion Solution
Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) announced the availability of a new power conversion solution that makes it easy for board developers to design point-of-load power solutions and achieve the highest FPGA performance at the lowest system power. The new power conversion solution, a monolithic 40A driver plus synchronous MOSFET powertrain, is optimized to meet the core […]
Altera Introduces OTN Solutions for 400G and Beyond at OFC 2014
Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) announced two new SoftSilicon® FPGA platforms that provide optical equipment manufacturers with standards-based OTN solutions beyond 100 Gigabit/s (B100G). The platforms feature an FPGA in combination with a fully integrated IP solution that reduces design time, integration processes and test phases, allowing customers to focus more on value-add technology differentiation. The […]
Altera JESD204B Solutions Simplify Integration
Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) announced the availability of a broad range of JESD204B solutions designed to simplify the integration of Altera FPGAs and SoCs and high-speed data converters in systems using the latest JEDEC JESD204B standard. The interface standard is used across many applications, including radar, wireless radioheads, medical imaging equipment, software defined radios and […]
Altera Brings FPGA-based Acceleration to IBM Power Systems
Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) announced the latest release of the Altera SDK for OpenCL supports IBM Power Systems servers as an OpenCL system host. Customers are now able to develop OpenCL code that targets IBM Power Systems CPUs and accelerator boards with Altera FPGAs as a high-performance compute solution. FPGA accelerated systems can achieve a […]
Altera Accelerates Performance with Stratix V FPGAs and OpenCL
Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) announced the first successful demonstration of the Suricata Engine, an open-source Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDS/IPS) system. The demonstration shows an accelerated Suricata Engine on a Stratix® V FPGA developed with the Altera SDK for OpenCL™. By leveraging the high-performance capabilities of Stratix V FPGAs and the computing acceleration of […]
NEC Chooses Altera’s 28 nm FPGAs to Differentiate in Competitive LTE Marketplace
Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) announced that NEC will use Altera’s 28 nm FPGAs to bring new levels of performance to its Long-term Evolution (LTE) base stations and enable wireless service providers to more effectively manage their networks. Altera Stratix® V and Cyclone® V FPGAs drive the complex algorithms that allow NEC’s LTE base station infrastructure […]
Altera SDK is First in Industry to Achieve Khronos Conformance
Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) announced its SDK for OpenCL is conformant to the OpenCL 1.0 standard and is now included on the Khronos Group list of OpenCL conformant products. Altera is the only company to offer an FPGA-optimized OpenCL solution, allowing software developers to harness the massively parallel architecture of an FPGA for system acceleration. […]
Altera Extends Low-Cost Portfolio with Development Kits
Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) announced the addition of five new low-cost development kits based on its Cyclone V FPGAs. These new kits make it easy for designers to cost-effectively get started on FPGA development with an entry point of just $49. Altera provides the industry’s broadest portfolio of low-cost solutions that deliver optimal power and […]