Altera Demonstrates Latest Portfolio of Industrial and Embedded Solutions at Embedded World 2011

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today announced it will showcase a suite of embedded and industrial FPGA solutions demonstrating the capabilities of FPGAs as coprocessors and system-on-chip solutions at Embedded World 2011 in Nurnberg, Germany. Show attendees will see a comprehensive range of Altera and third-party development tools, IP, and development boards with reference designs. This portfolio offers more features and increased system performance, while reducing development time.  

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Altera's in-booth demonstrations showcasing its FPGA technologies include:

• Altera's video framework, which accelerates time to market by combining an optimized video design tool flow with broadcast-quality hardware reference designs
  • Support for 3D processing and 4K resolution
  • Enables the highest picture quality by maximizing external memory bandwidth—1067-Mbps DDR3 support with 90 percent efficient multi-port memory arbiter
• Kontron's COM Express FPGA starter kit, which features the Intel® Atom™ Processor E600 Series and Altera's Cyclone® IV GX FPGA connected via PCI Express® (PCIe®)
  • Enables high-performance processing in application-specific markets such as industrial, automotive, and military
• Terasic's Industrial Networking Kit (INK), which supports multiple industrial Ethernet standards and I/O interfaces on a single hardware platform
  • Offers flexibility to adapt and support a variety of protocols including EtherCAT, EtherNet/IP, Ethernet Power link, Profinet, and SERCOS III
• Terasic's DE2-115 TPAD evaluation kit featuring Altera's Cyclone IV E FPGA
  • Enables a single integrated Cyclone IV development kit with I/O capabilities with touch-screen LCD
  • Provides a suite of demo applications that showcase the capabilities of Altera's Nios® II processor and Cyclone IV FPGA that enables low cost, low power applications

For additional information on Altera's participation at Embedded World 2011, visit www.altera.com/education/events/europe/evt-embedded-world.html.

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