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For Release: September 27, 1999
Altera Announces System-on-a-Programmable-Chip Development Board
- Supports SOPC Development
- Features APEX™ 20K400 Device for
Implementing IP Cores
San Jose, Calif., September 27, 1999--Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today
announced it will offer a System-on-a-Programmable-Chip™ (SOPC) development board, which will feature a
high-density APEX 20K400 programmable logic device (PLD) on-board. The SOPC
board is designed as a prototyping platform that provides SOC designers with an
immediate and economical solution to hardware and software co-design and
co-verification. The SOPC board supports the development and debugging of a
multitude of microprocessor-based SOC designs by incorporating programmable
logic with a variety of memory devices, interface resources, and debugging
capability. The board will include physical interfaces for widely used standard
interconnects and a full-featured, configurable memory subsystem ideal for
prototyping embedded systems and SOPC designs. The board will support multiple
clocks, and a wide variety of high performance I/O ports for developing complex
communication systems.
"The Altera SOPC board is intended for users implementing microprocessor
cores, as well as bus interfaces, DSP, communications, and other
industry-standard intellectual property cores into an Altera APEX programmable
logic device," said Luanne Stechert, Altera's AMPPSM program manager. "The SOPC board will be supported
by Altera and a number of Altera Megafunction Partner Program (AMPP) partners
that will offer cores optimized for the board."
The APEX 20K400 device provides 16,640 logic cells and over 200,000 bits of
RAM. The APEX 20K400 is an optimum device for implementing IP cores from AMPP
partners such as ARC Cores, Lexra, Sican
Microelectronics, and Stargate Solutions.
"Altera's SOPC board is an essential platform which will allow our customers
to design and debug systems based on ARC's user-configurable 32-bit RISC
microprocessor," said Jim Turley, ARC Cores vice president of marketing. "With
our core utilizing only 30% of the APEX 20K400's available resources, the SOPC
board grants customers thousands of logic cells for implementing other IP or
custom logic."
Furthermore, the SOPC board supports extended JTAG (EJTAG) for development
and debug of MIPS-like microprocessor cores, as well as JTAG. The JTAG port can
be used in conjunction with the SignalTap™
embedded logic analyzer available in Altera's
Quartus™ development environment.
Pricing & Availability
The SOPC board is expected to become available in November 1999 and cost
$4950. The price of the SOPC board will include the board, schematics,
MasterBlaster™ cable, demonstration software,
and documentation. Free download programs will be available at IP MegaStore.
Safe Harbor Notice
This press release contains "forward looking statements" which are made
pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995. Forward looking statements are generally preceded by words
such as "expects," "believes," "anticipates," "projects," or "intends."
Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements in this release
involve risks and uncertainty, including without limitation the risks that the
Company's products will not satisfy customer demands or that the product will no
ship as scheduled. Please refer to the Company's Securities and Exchange
Commission filings, copies of which are available from the Company without
charge, for further information.
About Altera Corporation
Altera Corporation, The Programmable Solutions Company™, was founded in 1983 and is a leading supplier of
programmable logic devices and associated logic development software tools.
Programmable logic devices are semiconductor chips that can be programmed
on-site, using software tools that run on personal computers or engineering
workstations. User benefits include ease of use, lower risk, and fast
time-to-market. Altera's CMOS-based programmable logic devices address
high-speed, high-density and low-power applications in the telecommunications,
data communications, computer peripheral, and industrial markets. Altera common
stock is traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol ALTR.
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