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. […]
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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 […]
Altera Completes Latest Upgrade to IP Portfolio
Altera Corporation announced it has completed the latest upgrade to its portfolio of IP cores targeting 28 nm FPGAs and SoCs. Over the past year, Altera has released more than 15 new protocol interface IP cores that target a broad range of applications and markets. In addition, the IP cores in Altera’s expanded IP portfolio […]
Altera and Micron Lead Industry with FPGA and Hybrid Memory Cube Interoperability
Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) and Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MU) (“Micron”) announced they have jointly demonstrated successful interoperability between Altera Stratix® V FPGAs and Micron’s Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC). This technology achievement enables system designers to evaluate today the benefits of HMC with FPGAs and SoCs for next-generation communications and high-performance computing designs. The demonstration provides an early proof point […]
Altera Delivers Verified EtherCAT Protocol IP Free of Upfront Fees
Altera Corporation announced the availability of a fully verified EtherCAT (Ethernet for Control Automation Technology) protocol intellectual property (IP) for Altera FPGAs. This announcement is the latest offering from the collaboration between Altera, EtherCAT Technology Group (ETG) and Softing Industrial Automation GmbH, for a licensing structure that gives developers access to leading Industrial Ethernet protocols with […]
Next-gen FPGAs and SoC for increased power efficiency
Altera Corporation introduced its Generation 10 FPGAs and SoCs, offering system developers breakthrough levels of performance and power efficiencies. Generation 10 devices are optimized based on process technology and architecture to deliver the industry’s highest performance and highest levels of system integration at the lowest power. Initial Generation 10 families include Arria 10 and Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs with […]
Stratix V GX FPGAs
The 28 nm Stratix V GX FPGAs have achieved inclusion on the latest PCI-SIG Integrators List for the PCI Express (PCIe) 3.0 specification (Gen3). They have successfully passed all PCI-SIG compliance and interoperability tests, completing inclusion for Stratix V on all three generations of the Integrators Lists for PCIe. With Cyclone V and Arria V devices included […]
Altera Opens the world of FPGAs to software programmers
Availability of the SDK for OpenCL enables software programmers to access the high-performance capabilities of programmable logic devices. Altera announced a Preferred Board Partner Program, allowing third-party board vendors to work closely with Altera to design optimized production boards based on Altera’s programmable devices. The availability of supported third-party boards through the Preferred Board Partner […]
FPGA and SoC software reduces compile times
The release of the Quartus II software version 13.0, delivers the highest levels of FPGA and SoC performance and designer productivity. Users targeting 28 nm FPGAs and SoCs will experience on average a 25 percent reduction in compile times. The most difficult-to-close designs targeting high-end 28 nm Stratix V FPGAs will see compilation times slashed […]
