Altera Corporation

Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) is the world's pioneer in system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) solutions, featuring the industry's most advanced programmable logic devices, associated software tools, intellectual property software blocks, and state-of-the-art design services.

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Cyclone II FPGAs

Altera introduces the Cyclone™ II FPGA family, the latest in the Cyclone series of low-cost FPGAs. Altera forever changed the FPGA industry with the introduction of the Cyclone device family in 2002—bringing to market the first and only FPGA family designed from the ground up for the lowest cost. Altera took the same approach and built the Cyclone II family with each member individually optimized for minimum die size. The Cyclone II FPGA family offers the same benefits as its predecessor—a customer-defined feature set, industry-leading performance, and low power consumption—but with much more density and features—at dramatically lower costs. Cyclone II devices extend the low-cost FPGA density range up to 68,416 logic elements (LEs) and up to 1.1 Mbits of embedded memory.

Cyclone II devices are manufactured on 300-mm wafers using TSMC’s 90-nm low-k dielectric process, the same proven process used with Altera’s Stratix® II devices. This process technology will ensure rapid availability and low cost. By minimizing silicon area, Cyclone II devices can support complex digital systems on a single chip at a cost that rivals that of ASICs.

All Cyclone II devices are supported by the no-cost Quartus® II Web Edition software. Quartus II software is the industry’s most advanced design software for FPGAs and provides a comprehensive suite of synthesis, optimization, and verification tools in a single, unified design environment. Designers can select from a large portfolio of intellectual property (IP) cores, and download Altera's unique OpenCore® Plus version of the chosen core(s). The Quartus II software is used to integrate and evaluate the cores in Cyclone II devices. Quartus II software's advanced technology reduces development costs and helps bring products to market faster.

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• Cyclone II Home Page
• Cyclone II Overview
• Cyclone II Design Utilities
• Cyclone II Features
• Cyclone II Literature

MAX II: The Lowest-Cost CPLD Ever

Altera introduces the MAX® II device family, the lowest-cost CPLDs ever. MAX II devices are based on a groundbreaking new CPLD architecture that delivers the lowest cost per I/O pin and the lowest power of any CPLD family.

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Stratix II Devices: The Biggest & Fastest FPGAs

FPGA performance reaches new heights with the Stratix™ II device family -- the industry's fastest and highest-density FPGAs. Built on a new and innovative logic structure, Stratix II devices on average deliver 50% faster performance and offer more than twice the logic capacity of first-generation Stratix FPGAs. Stratix II devices extend the possibilities of FPGA design, allowing designers to meet the high-performance requirements of today's advanced systems and avoid developing with costly ASICs.

Based on the award-winning Stratix device family architecture, Stratix II devices are outfitted with a powerful set of system-level features and incorporate many significant enhancements and new capabilities. Stratix II FPGAs are manufactured on 300-mm wafers using TSMC's 90-nm, low-k dielectric process technology. Stratix II devices mark the debut of an innovative and efficient logic structure that maximizes performance while consuming fewer resources and provides full backward compatibility with previous-generation architectures. This logic structure increases device densities to never-before-seen levels, reaching up to 180K equivalent logic elements (LEs) and 9 Mbits of RAM, all at a significantly lower cost than prior-generation FPGAs.

Stratix II devices were designed in concert with the Quartus® II software to deliver unmatched performance and ease-of-use. The Quartus II software is the industry's most advanced development software for high-density FPGAs and provides a comprehensive suite of synthesis, optimization, and verification tools in a single, unified design environment.With support for migration to HardCopy™ structured ASICs, Stratix II FPGAs offer the industry's only seamless development path from FPGA prototype to high-volume, structured ASIC production. Designing with HardCopy devices allows you to reduce development costs and still get the flexibility and time-to-market advantages associated with FPGAs.

For More Information:

• Stratix II Home Page
• Stratix II Overview
• Stratix II Design Utilities
• Stratix II Features
• Stratix II Literature
• Quartus II 4.0 Design Software

HardCopy Devices: ASIC Gain without the Pain

Altera's HardCopy Stratix™ device family provides a comprehensive alternative to ASICs. While ASIC design involves expensive design tools, high development costs, and long lead times, Altera's mask-programmed HardCopy devices offer a low-cost solution. Today, Altera provides everything engineers need to design HardCopy™ devices in the quickest possible time. Fully supported by Altera's Quartus® II software, HardCopy Stratix devices are the ideal solution to take Altera's industry-leading Stratix™ FPGAs to high-volume production.

Based on the successful Stratix FPGA architecture, HardCopy Stratix devices offer an average of 50% higher performance and up to 40% lower power consumption compared to the equivalent Stratix FPGA. HardCopy Stratix devices are perfect for a variety of designs that target networking, wireless communication, high-end consumer electronics, industrial, test, and medical applications.

For More Information:

• HardCopy Stratix Devices Home Page

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