SAN JOSE, Calif., March 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Altera Corporation
(Nasdaq: ALTR) today announced delivery of the industry's first
high-performance 28-nm FPGAs in production. Stratix® V FPGAs are
the only FPGAs manufactured using TSMC's 28HP process, delivering a
one-speed grade advantage over competing solutions. The performance
benefits offered by Altera's high-end FPGA combined with its
leading-edge process technology and features advantage enables
Stratix V FPGAs to displace ASIC and ASSPs and win over competitive
FPGAs in a variety of markets. Eight Stratix V FPGA family members
are in production.
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Altera started shipping engineering samples of the industry's
first high-end 28-nm FPGAs in April
2011 and moved to production in less than a year – the
industry's fastest 28-nm FPGA production roll out. Altera also
continues to be the only company to ship FPGAs featuring 28-Gbps
transceivers. Customers developing the highest performance systems,
including the world's top communications, broadcast, military, test
and medical companies, have selected Altera's high-end FPGA for use
in their next-generation systems due to the device's performance
advantage and aggressive production schedule.
Companies like Huawei, a leading global information and
communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, realize
firsthand the performance advantage offered by Stratix V FPGAs and
have selected Altera's high-end product family for use in their
latest 400G high-capacity OTN system. Huawei will be demonstrating
this Stratix V FPGA-based system in their booth at the Optical
Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition/National Fiber Optic
Engineers Conference 2012 (OFC/NFOEC) in Los Angeles the week of March 5. By providing the industry's first
high-end 28-nm production FPGAs, Altera enables the evolution of
communications infrastructure like 400G systems and other
high-performance systems in a variety of markets.
"There is a constant push in the financial markets for the
highest performance at the lowest latency. AdvancedIO's products
combined with Altera's latest 28-nm FPGA technology provide the
ideal solution," said Mohammad
Darwish, President and CEO at AdvancedIO Systems.
"Leveraging Altera's Stratix V FPGAs in our network cards enables
us to deploy the most reliable, error-free and rugged products in
the market. The scalable density offered by the Stratix V family
opens new possibilities for more sophisticated financial services
with FPGA technology."
Altera offers the industry's broadest, most complete 28-nm FPGA
portfolio, which is tailored to meet customer's system performance,
system power and system cost requirements. In addition to Stratix V
FPGAs, the 28-nm portfolio includes Altera's low-power/low-cost
Cyclone® V and Cyclone V SoC FPGAs, its mid-range Arria® V and
Arria V SoC FPGAs and development kits. The Stratix V FPGA family
includes an E variant which is rich in logic resources and GX, GS
and GT variants which include integrated transceivers operating up
to 28 Gbps. Stratix V FPGAs are the only FPGAs to feature
variable-precision DSP blocks, high-performance floating-point DSP
capability and are the only FPGA shipping today that feature hard
PCI Express® (PCIe®) Gen3 x8 IP blocks and 28-Gbps
transceivers.
"Production availability of our high-end 28-nm silicon comes at
an exciting time, as companies are aggressively building higher
performance systems or upgrading existing infrastructure to keep
pace with their end customer's demands," said Vince Hu, vice president of product and
corporate marketing at Altera. "Offering the first high-performance
FPGA in production puts us in a great position to allow customers
to differentiate and get to market quickly with their end system.
The advantage we have with our tailored 28-nm portfolio is
resulting in us solidly winning two out of every three 28-nm
designs in the marketplace. We are also winning applications that
were traditionally served by ASSPs and ASICs in optical networking,
high-speed packet processing and other communications
applications."
Availability
Production units of 28-nm Stratix V FPGAs are shipping now and
are supported in the latest release of the Quartus® II 11.1
software. Engineering samples of 28-nm Arria V FPGAs are shipping
now, and engineering samples of 28-nm Cyclone V FPGAs will be
shipping this month. For ordering information on Altera's 28-nm
portfolio or for questions regarding pricing, contact your local
Altera sales representative. To learn additional information about
Stratix V FPGAs, visit: www.altera.com/pr/stratix5.
About Altera
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companies to rapidly and cost-effectively innovate, differentiate
and win in their markets. Find out more about Altera's FPGA, CPLD
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