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. Forging the next evolution in electronic design, Altera® reprogrammable solutions deliver fast time to market and an advantage over costly, high-risk ASIC development and inflexible ASSPs and digital signal processors. Altera offers value to a much broader market than was previously addressed by programmable logic products.
White Paper: In telecommunications transport infrastructure, Optical Transport Network (OTN) and Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) protocols are being combined to create Packet-Optical Transport Networks (P-OTNs). Telecom equipment manufacturers provide these new P-OTN systems and, naturally, are now looking to the... more
Development Board/Evaluation Kit: The Altera® Arria® II GX FPGA Development Kit delivers a complete system-level design environment that includes both the hardware and software needed to immediately begin developing FPGA designs. With this PCI-SIG-compliant board and a one-year license for Quartus® II design software... more
Product Literature: Altera’s second 40-nm FPGA delivers the capabilities of a high-end FPGA at the price of a low cost FPGA. Arria® II GX FPGAs are based on a full-featured 40-nm FPGA fabric that includes adaptive logic modules (ALMs), rich digital signal processing (DSP) resources, embedded RAM, and built-in PCIe... more
Video: Learn about the FPGA that offers a high-performance fabric at half the power and lower cost than competing high-end FPGAs. Watch the Arria II GX transceiver running PCI Express, XAUI, and 3G-SDI, and see the transceiver's eye diagram. See the new development kit you can use to evaluate Arria II GX... more
Webcast: View the Arria® II GX FPGA webcast to learn how you can use the lowest power, cost-optimized FPGA to build a working PCIe design in 45 minutes with a single design environment, proven intellectual property (IP), and design examples to minimize development time and costs... more
Webcast: In today's tough economic times, managers need to get products to market faster, deliver the latest technology, and reduce development budgets. Watch the webcast to see how Altera Quartus II FPGA software can help boost your global team's productivity, reduce development time and minimize... more