Altera

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Altera Corporation () is a leading manufacturer of programmable logic devices. It is a member of the NASDAQ-100 group of technology stock market and the S&P 500.

Altera is one of the pioneers of Programmable Logic, following notable early leaders Signetics and Monolithic_Memories in introducing PLDs. Altera develops many features that are geared towards system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) capability. Some of the more recent examples include embedded memory, embedded processors, and high-speed transceivers. The success in 130nm and 90nm product launches are good case studies. Altera's Nios II and Nios_embedded_processor soft core processors and HardCopy II & HardCopy devices are extending Altera's reach in addressable markets, and put Altera in the world of embedded processors and structured Application-specific_integrated_circuits respectively. Among its chief competitors are Xilinx, Lattice Semiconductor, Actel, Quicklogic and Atmel.

Altera also offers the software suite Quartus II, aimed at the design and simulation of logic circuits. Although their software suite extensively supports VHDL and Verilog as primary languages, Altera is the developer of the Hardware Description Language known as AHDL.

Device Family Lines CPLD

MAX 3000A: EPM3032A,EPM3064A,EPM3128A,EPM3256A,EPM3512A
MAX 7000: EPM7032B,EPM7064B,EPM7128B,EPM7256B,EPM7512B
MAX II: EPM240,EPM570,EPM1270,EPM2210

FPGA

Stratix: announced February 11, 2002
Stratix GX: announced November 4, 2002
Stratix II: announced February 2, 2004
Stratix II GX: announced October 24, 2005
Stratix III: announced November 8, 2006

FPGA

Cyclone: announced September 23, 2002
Cyclone II: announced June 28, 2004
Cyclone III: announced March 19, 2007
Arria GX: announced May 8, 2007

(an Altera product)

Structured ASIC

HardCopy Stratix: announced February 4, 2002
HardCopy II: announced January 24, 2005

Semiconductor intellectual property core Royalty-Free

Nios II software embedded processor core.

Design Software Products

Quartus II
Quartus II Web Edition
SOPC Builder
DSP Builder
MAX+PLUS II
MAX+PLUS II BASELINE

Competition

Altera's major competitor are Xilinx and Lattice Semiconductor.
Further noteable Competitors in the field of FPGAs are Actel and QuickLogic.

While CPLDs and classic FPGAs were strictly Logic-Devices, with their newest devices the bigger FPGA-Vendors go more and more into high throughput Digital signal processing applications. This trend is also driven by the so called Electronic system level Design. It's not really new, but it is gathering momentum, not only in Marketing and PR like the last 10 Years, but in real use out in the Industry. With todays Multi-Million-Gate Devices and their System-on-a-chip-Architectures, and high-level synthesis tools combined with IP(-Reuse) one can implement complex systems competely in a single FPGA instead of using a large PCB with various chips and busses on it.So in the future Vendors like Altera and Xilinx will compete more and more with companies like Texas Instruments or Analog Devices.

External links

Altera official website
Cornell ECE576 uses Altera FPGAs
Nios processor community
Altera Support

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