Altera Corporation was a leading American manufacturer of programmable logic devices company, from 1984. Altera manufacturer programmable logic devices like PLDs, reconfigurable complex digital circuits.

The lead product lines from Altera (now Intel) are the Stratix, Arria and Cyclone series FPGAs, the MAX series CPLDs and non-volatile FPGAs, Quartus design software, and Enpirion PowerSoC DC-DC power solutions.

Altera’s largest competitor is FPGA founder and market share leader. The next closest competitors are LThis Semiconductor and Exel (now MicroSimy), representing less than 10% of each market. On June 1, 2015, Altera and Intel announced that Intel would acquire Ulterra in all cash transactions valued at approximately $ 15.73 billion ($ 16.7 billion). As of 28 December 2015, editing is complete.

Let’s deep down into the products they are providing:

FPGA

  • Stratix series FPGAs are the company’s largest
  • Cyclone series FPGAs and SoC FPGAs, which are manufactured with lowest cost and consume lowest power.
  • Arria series FPGAs, which provides a balance of performance, power, and cost for mid-range applications such as remote radio heads, video conferencing equipment, and wireline access equipment

SoC FPGAs

The company has been shipping Soc FPGAs since December 2012. These devices integrate FPGAs with full hard processor systems based around ARM processors onto a single device.

ASICs

Altera offered a publicly available ASIC design flow based on HardCopy ASICs, which was transitioned an FPGA design, once finalized, to a form which is not alterable.

IP cores

Altera and its partner offer an array of IP Cores (Intellectual property Cores) that serve as building blocks that design engineers can drop into their system designs to perform specific functions. IP cores help to eliminate some of the time consuming tasks of creating every block in a design from scratch.

Technology by Altera

40-nm technology

In May 2008, Altera introduced the industry’s first 40-nm programmable logic devices: the Stratix IV FPGAs and HardCopy IV ASICs. Both devices are available with integrated transceiver options. Since then, the company has also introduced Stratix IV GT FPGAs, which have 11.3 Gbit/s transceivers for 40G/100G applications, and Arria II GX FPGAs, which have 3.75 Gbit/s transceivers for power- and cost-sensitive applications.

Semiconductors manufactured on a 40-nm process node address many of the industry’s key challenges, including power consumption, device performance, and cost. Altera’s devices are manufactured using techniques such as 193-nm immersion lithography and technologies such as extreme low-k dielectrics and strained silicon. These techniques and technologies bring enhancements to device performance and power efficiency.

28-nm technology

In April 2010, Altera introduced the FPGA industry’s second 28-nm device, the Stratix V FPGA (to Xilinx’s Kintex-7 FPGA), available with transceivers at speeds up to 28 Gbit/s. This device family has more than 1 million logic elements, up to 53 Mb of embedded memory, up to 7 x72 DDR3 DIMMs at 800 MHz, 1.6 Gbit/s LVDS performance, and up to 3,680 variable-precision DSP blocks. In August 2011, Altera began shipping 28-nm Stratix V GT devices featuring 28-gigabits-per-second transceivers.

The devices also feature some unique features. Embedded HardCopy blocks harden standard or logic-intensive applications, increasing integration and delivering twice the density without a cost or power penalty. Altera has developed a user friendly method for partial reconfiguration, so core functionality can be changed easily and on the fly. And there is a path to HardCopy V ASICs, when designs are ready for volume production. Also, Altera’s 28 nm FPGAs aim to reduce power requirements to 200 mW per channel.

In December 2012, the company announced the shipment of its first 28 nm Cyclone V SoC devices, which have a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor system with FPGA logic on a single chip. The new SoCs are targeted for wireless communications, industrial, video surveillance, automotive and medical equipment markets. With these SoCs devices, users are able to create custom field-programmable SoC variants for power, board space, performance and cost optimization.

14-nm technology

In February 2013, Altera announced an agreement with Intel to use Intel’s foundry services to produce its 14-nm node for the future manufacturing of its FPGAs, based on Intel’s 14 nm tri-gate transistor technology, in place of Altera’s ongoing agreement with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (TSMC).

In October 2016, nearly one year after Intel’s integration with Altera, STRATIX 10 was announced, which is based on Intel’s 14 nm Tri-Gate process.

Industrial Applications:

Automotive With their automotive products, you can reduce system costs, improve reliability, and simplify design complexity to accelerate time to market.

Broadcast Media standards are continuously evolving to keep up with ever changing technology requirements driven by higher resolutions, faster frame rates, deeper color, and the move to IP networks.

Computer & Storage Thier ® FPGAs can be used to accelerate the performance of large-scale data systems.

Consumer Using their low-cost FPGAs in your systems enables a fast, risk-free path to high volume and helps you handle nearly continuous change while still maintaining project deadlines.

Embedded Vision The ability to incorporate high-definition (HD) video, image processing, and analytic tools has become an essential feature of embedded systems.

Industrial Learn how their FPGAs, such as our low-cost, low-power Intel® Cyclone® devices series, can help you address some of your toughest industrial application design challenges.

Medical They provide a comprehensive product and tool portfolio to accelerate medical application development.

Military/Aerospace/Government Their FPGAs enable designers to meet the requirements of the aerospace and military markets by supplying enhanced off-the-shelf FPGAs.

Test & Measurement Regardless of the market, all products must be tested before being shipping to the end-customer. Learn how their FPGAs can help.

Wireless They provide a complete portfolio of high-performance, low-cost FPGAs delivering the processing bandwidth and flexibility required for wireless applications.

Wireline Their complete portfolio of high-performance, low-cost FPGAs and programmable logic devices (PLDs) deliver the processing bandwidth and flexibility required for wireline infrastructure designs.

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