Altera Showcases Efficient and Safety-Integrated Drive Systems at SPS/IPC/DRIVES 2011

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced it will demonstrate its latest industrial embedded solutions for energy-efficient and safety-integrated drive systems at SPS/IPC/DRIVES Electric Automation Exhibition and Conference in Nuremberg, Germany.

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Altera will highlight how its Cyclone® series of FPGAs enables integrated, high-performance industrial systems such as drive systems with a high-performance control loop in floating point. Visitors to the booth also can test drive the industry's first Virtual Target for software development on the new Cyclone V SoC FPGA with the integrated ARM® Cortex™-A9 MPCore™ processor.  Many designers use Cyclone FPGAs in a wide range of industrial applications including drives, PLCs, inverters and embedded control.

What: SPS/IPC/DRIVES 2011
When: Tues., Nov. 22 to Thurs., Nov. 24  
Where: Hall 6, Stand 111, Exhibition Centre, Nuremberg, Germany

Demonstrations

Altera's product and solution demonstrations include:

• "Drive-on-a-chip" solution through model-based design
  • Leveraging the FPGA industry's first variable-precision DSP architecture, Altera tools such as DSP Builder and Qsys take advantage of floating-point algorithms implemented in MathWorks Simulink to reduce control loop latency and extend intellectual property (IP) reuse
  • Building a drive on a single device by integrating the motor control algorithm, logic, encoder interface and Industrial Ethernet protocols
  • Using EBV Elektronik's FalconEye FPGA system with a brushless motor to deliver a flexible hardware reference platform that significantly reduces development time

• Support for multiple industrial networking protocols on a single device
  • The Industrial Networking Kit (INK), featuring the Cyclone IV E FPGA, expands support for the leading Industrial Ethernet protocols on a single FPGA

• Integrated FPGA control for 3-level IGBTs
  • A hardware reference system highlighting an efficient method for 3-level space-vector modulation for inverters and high-frequency drives
  • The latest in 3-level insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) with smaller output voltage steps that reduce potential issues with long power cables between the inverter and motor

• New software development tool for ARM-Based SoC FPGAs
  • FPGA industry's first Virtual Target for software development on SoC FPGAs designed to enable immediate device-specific embedded software development
• PC-based functional simulation of embedded development board for Cyclone V and Arria® V SoC FPGA devices
• Binary- and register-compatible, functional equivalent of SoC FPGA board ensures that software developed on the Virtual Target can be moved to the actual board with minimal effort

For additional information on Altera's participation at SPS/IPC/DRIVES, visit www.altera.com/spsdrives2011.

Free Workshops

In addition to the in-booth demonstrations, Altera will host two free workshops:

Seating for both workshops is limited. To reserve a seat, visit www.altera.com/spsdrives2011.

About Altera

Altera® programmable solutions enable system and semiconductor companies to rapidly and cost-effectively innovate, differentiate and win in their markets. Find out more about Altera's FPGA, CPLD and ASIC devices at www.altera.com. Follow Altera via Facebook, RSS and Twitter.

Editor Contact:
Yoko Okamura
Altera Corporation
(408) 544-7458

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