Altera to Showcase How Its Latest Programmable Solutions are Enabling Next-Generation Embedded Industrial and Video Surveillance Applications at ESC Silicon Valley

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today announced it will showcase its embedded technologies and programmable logic solutions at the 2011 Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) Silicon Valley. Altera's participation includes sponsored technical sessions, in-booth demonstrations and conference paper presentations. Embedded designers will see how they can achieve a powerful competitive edge by leveraging Altera's embedded portfolio, including embedded processors, programmable solutions, embedded development tools and intellectual property.

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Altera's in-booth demonstrations:

• Embedded Video Solutions
  • Wide dynamic range video surveillance demonstration
  • Demonstration of Altera's video and image processing (VIP) suite
  • IP camera demonstration using Kontron's COM Express FPGA starter kit
• Embedded Industrial Solutions
  • Industrial Ethernet demonstration on Industrial Networking Kit (INK)
  • GigE vision demonstration
• Qsys System Integration Tool
  • Showing how Qsys improves productivity by automatically generating interconnect logic to connect IP functions and subsystems
• Altera Embedded Alliance
  • System Level Solutions demonstrating latest soft-core processors on an FPGA
  • Representatives from Arrow Electronics demonstrating the BeMicro SDK and the BeMicro robot
  • Intel® Atom™ Processor E6x5C Series, a multi-chip package that integrates the Intel Atom Processor E6xx Series and an Altera FPGA

For additional information on Altera's participation at ESC Silicon Valley, visit www.altera.com/education/events/northamerica/evt-esc-2011.html

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Altera Corporation
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