Altera

About Altera

Altera Corporation is the pioneer of programmable logic solutions, enabling system and semiconductor companies to rapidly and cost-effectively innovate, differentiate, and win in their markets. Altera offers FPGAs, SoC FPGAs, CPLDs, and ASICs in combination with software tools, intellectual property, embedded processors, and customer support to provide high-value programmable solutions to more than 13,000 customers worldwide. Altera was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in San Jose, California, with additional offices in 19 countries.

Altera Product Highlights

Altera offers a broad suite of design resources through Arrow, including the Quartus® II and DSP Builder design software. The Nios® II soft processor delivers flexibility for cost-sensitive, real-time, safety-critical, and applications processing needs. Altera also provides industry-leading Intellectual Property (IP) and development kits for faster system development.

The Stratix® FPGA series enables you to deliver high-performance, state-of-the-art products to market faster with lower risk and higher productivity. By combining high density, high performance, and a rich feature set, Stratix series FPGAs allow you to integrate more functions and maximize system bandwidth.

• Stratix IV FPGA
• Stratix III FPGA
• Stratix II FPGA

Altera's Arria® FPGA series is designed for cost- and power-sensitive transceiver-based and embedded applications. The Arria FPGA series has a rich feature set of memory, logic, and digital signal processing (DSP) blocks combined with the superior signal integrity of up to 10.3125-Gbps transceivers to allow you to integrate more functions and maximize system bandwidth.

• Arria II FPGA

The Cyclone® FPGA series is built to meet your low-power, cost-sensitive design needs, enabling you to get to market faster. Each generation of Cyclone FPGAs solves your technical challenges of increased integration, increased performance, lower power, and faster time to market while meeting your cost-sensitive requirements.

• Cyclone IV FPGA
• Cyclone III FPGA
• Cyclone II FPGA

Altera offers the MAX® II family of CPLDs, utilizing their groundbreaking architecture to produce the lowest-power, lowest-cost CPLD on the market today.

• Max V CPLD
• Max IIz CPLD
• Max II CPLD

Altera's HardCopy ASIC series allows designers to bring their products from prototype to volume production faster and with less risk, using one tool, one methodology, and one trusted partner throughout the development cycle.