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May 14, 2013
Altera to Deliver Breakthrough Power Solutions for FPGAs with Acquisition of Power Technology Innovator EnpirionAltera 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) |
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May 06, 2013
Altera Opens the World of FPGAs to Software Programmers with Broad Availability of SDK and Off-the-Shelf Boards for OpenCLAltera 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) |
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May 06, 2013
Altera Quartus II Software v13.0 Enables World’s Fastest FPGA DesignsAltera 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) |
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April 22, 2013
Altera Announces Availability of Cyclone V SoC Development KitAltera 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) |
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April 15, 2013
Altera and TSMC Collaborate on 55 nm EmbFlash ProcessAltera 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) |
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April 15, 2013
Altera and AppliedMicro will Cooperate on Joint Solutions for High Growth Data Center MarketAltera 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) |
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April 15, 2013
Altera Expands OTN Solution Capabilities with Acquisition of TPACKAltera today announced it has agreed to acquire TPACK, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Applied Micro Circuits Corporation. TPACK delivers complete FPGA-based OTN products targeting packet and optical networking equipment suppliers. The acquisition enables Altera to accelerate and expand its OTN solutions roadmapto support the increasing pipeline of customer designs resulting from Altera’s successful acquisition in 2010 of Avalon Microelectronics, a leading OTN IP provider. (more) |
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April 10, 2013
Altera Demonstrates Industry’s First QPI 1.1 FPGA Home Agent for Enhanced Server CapabilitiesAltera today announced the industry’s first demonstration of an FPGA Home Agent enabled by the Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) protocol 1.1. Connecting to Intel’s Sandy Bridge XEON processors, the demonstration leverages an Altera® Stratix® V FPGA configured as the Home Agent, and it supports both the Caching Agent and Home Agent in a Pactron Vigor Development Platform. This solution is ideal for designers of low-latency signal-processing, packet processing and embedded applications, such as high-frequency trading and big data that need higher computation performance-per-watt than traditional CPU configurations can deliver. (more) |
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