June 10, 2013

Altera Announces Breakthrough Advantages with Generation 10

Altera today 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® 10and Stratix® 10 FPGAs and SoCswith embedded processors. Generation 10 devices leverage the most advanced process technologies in the industry, including Intel’s 14-nm Tri-Gate process and TSMC’s 20 nm process. (more)

May 21, 2013

Altera Stratix V GX FPGAs Achieve PCIe Gen3 Compliance and Listing on PCI-SIG Integrators List

Altera today announced its 28 nm Stratix® V GX FPGAs have achieved inclusion on the latest PCI-SIG® Integrators Listfor the PCI Express® (PCIe®) 3.0 specification (Gen3).  At the most recent PCI-SIG workshop, Stratix V GX FPGAs 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 on the 1.1 (Gen 1) and 2.0 (Gen2) lists, Altera’s entire 28 nm portfolio is now certified by the PCI-SIG as PCIe compliant for all three generations.   (more)

May 14, 2013

Altera to Deliver Breakthrough Power Solutions for FPGAs with Acquisition of Power Technology Innovator Enpirion

Altera today announced it has signed a definitive merger agreement to acquire Enpirion, Inc., the industry’s leading provider of high-efficiency, integrated power conversion products known as PowerSoCs (power system-on-chip). The combination of Altera’s FPGAs with Enpirion’s PowerSoCs will offer customers higher performance, lower system power, higher reliability, smaller footprint and faster time-to-market.  (more)

May 06, 2013

Altera Opens the World of FPGAs to Software Programmers with Broad Availability of SDK and Off-the-Shelf Boards for OpenCL

Altera today announced the broad availability of its SDK for OpenCL and supported third-party production boards. Availability of the SDK for OpenCL enables software programmers to access the high-performance capabilities of programmable logic devices. Also part of today’s news, 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. (more)

May 06, 2013

Altera Quartus II Software v13.0 Enables World’s Fastest FPGA Designs

Altera today announced the release of its Quartus® II software version 13.0, which 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 by 50 percent on average compared to the previous software release. (more)

April 22, 2013

Altera Announces Availability of Cyclone V SoC Development Kit

Altera Corporation today announced the availability of its Cyclone® V SoC Development Kit, a development platform that enables hardware and software developers to accelerate their embedded systems design development. Developed in collaboration with ARM, this kit features the recently announced ARM® Development Studio 5 (DS-5™) Altera® Edition Toolkit software, the industry’s only FPGA-adaptive debugging software that enables designers to view the processor and FPGA portions of the device simultaneously. (more)

April 15, 2013

Altera and TSMC Collaborate on 55 nm EmbFlash Process

Altera and TSMC today announced a technology collaboration using TSMC’s 55 nm leading-edge Embedded Flash process technology. Programmable devices based on TSMC’s 55 nm EmbFlash target a wide range of low-power, high-volume applications in a variety of markets, including automotive and industrial. (more)

April 15, 2013

Altera and AppliedMicro will Cooperate on Joint Solutions for High Growth Data Center Market

Altera and Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, today announced they have signed a memorandum of understanding designed to result in the joint development and marketing of optimized solutions for data center applications. The strategic cooperation initiative will enable the two companies to combine advanced Altera FPGAs with silicon solutions from AppliedMicro, including the company’s full line of connectivity and ARM® 64-bit X-Gene Server on a Chip products. (more)