Emerson Climate Technologies
“We have received our first Cyclone III devices and are adopting them for our high-performance embedded motor control programs. The compelling architecture innovations in Cyclone III FPGAs, such as performance and abundant memory, enable us to cost-effectively deliver greater functionality compared to conventional microcontroller and DSP solutions."
Eric Wildi
Chief Electronics Officer
Let It Wave
“With the Cyclone III family, Altera has provided the first memory- and DSP-rich FPGAs that are ideal for cost-sensitive applications. Using Cyclone III FPGAs enables Let It Wave to deliver our advanced video processing at price points that are attractive for the consumer market.”
Professor Stéphane Mallat
CEO
Navman
"The low power consumption and low cost of Cyclone III FPGAs make them attractive for many of our products. We have received our first devices and will be using them for video processing and driving the displays in our next-generation marine navigation products. Also, the abundant memory and multiplier resources in Cyclone III devices enable us to use FPGAs in applications that would have previously required DSP processors or ASSPs."
Fabio Galli
Hardware Development Manager
Marine Electronics Division
AMX
"Cyclone FPGAs provide cost-effective video processing and graphics generation for several models of our Modero touch panels. With Cyclone III FPGAs, we can take advantage of the lower power, lower cost, and display-optimized features to deliver even greater capabilities in our products."
Robert Noble
Chief Technology Officer
Tait Electronics
"The low cost, high functionality, and low power consumption of Cyclone III FPGAs make them the right choice for our upcoming digital base station projects. The generous memory and multiplier resources in Cyclone III devices enable us to implement more DSP functions in programmable logic to achieve the best price-performance combination. With this Altera FPGA-based approach, we can create transmit and receive signal processing chains that incorporate complex filtering, linearization schemes, IF processing, and control functions in the most cost-effective manner."
Dr. Stephen Mann
DSP Team Leader; Infrastructure Division
Panasonic AVC Networks Company
“Altera has contributed extraordinary value to many of our broadcast products. Their low-cost Cyclone series devices help us to achieve the highest value in our camcorders, and their Stratix devices deliver the high-performance digital signal processing functionality needed for our AJ-HD3700B Studio Mastering System.”
Akihiko Nakatsukasa
Purchasing Department Manager
Professional AV Systems Business Unit
Pinnacle Systems
"In our next-generation video-to-USB product, we chose Cyclone devices over other FPGAs for a number of reasons. First, Cyclone devices provide us with the lowest cost and are available in production quantities, which is critical for the consumer market. Cyclone devices also deliver the right combination of on-chip memory and exceptional performance, exceeding our expectations for a low-cost FPGA family. Also, Altera offers complete development support for their latest low-cost products, which can be lacking in competitive solutions. With Altera's solution, we are able to enjoy the highest degree of design flexibility while still delivering the most capable and lowest cost product for our customers."
Bernd Riemann
Director of Hardware Engineering
Gibson Guitar
“Replacing a more expensive FPGA and microprocessor with a single Cyclone FPGA running a Nios processor enabled us to develop a smaller, lower-priced Universal MaGIC Module that allows MaGIC connectivity to be added to any instrument or piece of equipment easily and efficiently. The availability of this simple, cost-effective means of integrating MaGIC into existing instruments and equipment will accelerate its adoption in the music industry, and potentially into video and smart home networking applications as well.”
Henry Juszkiewicz
Chairman & CEO
National Instruments
"Cyclone FPGAs are impressive, and we are using them to replace standard products and low-end ASICs. The Cyclone family allows us to add functionality and retain flexibility while still keeping our costs to a minimum, and we now have many Cyclone designs completed or in progress.”
Keith Odom
Director of Engineering, Architecture & Technology
Sumitomo Electric Networks
“Altera shipped tens of thousands of Cyclone FPGAs to us within three months of our receiving initial units. Altera’s ability to reliably deliver volume quantities of their Cyclone devices helped us to satisfy the production schedule for our ADSL modem."
Minoru Kuramoto
Deputy General Manager, Development Group
Sumitomo Electric Networks, Inc.
Motorola
"The price/performance ratio of Cyclone FPGAs allows us to keep PLD flexibility for the cost of an ASIC. Our adoption of Cyclone FPGAs has enabled us to implement unparalleled product programmability while still meeting our cost goals."
Tom Freeburg
Director & Corporate Vice President
Broadband Wireless Technology Center
Harmonic, Inc.
“The exceptional value provided by Cyclone devices was a contributing factor in making our DiviCom Ion Multichannel MPEG-2 Encoder a very cost-effective product. Cyclone devices are a great solution thanks to the competitive price and availability in high volumes.”
Tom Lattie
DiviCom Ion Product Manager
Pro Broadband, Inc.
“Altera’s comprehensive, first-to-market video-over-IP solution provides us with a significant competitive advantage, and we have adopted it and their Ethernet-to-ASI solution for our next-generation digital head-end product. The low-cost Cyclone FPGAs, combined with the flexible Nios II processor and Altera’s considerable expertise in broadcast solutions, enables us to reduce our costs via elimination of an ASSP and shorten our design cycle.”
Yu Zhi Wi
Project Manager
Pleora Technologies, Inc.
“Altera’s Cyclone FPGAs have been a great asset in our effort to drive down the cost of our high-performance iPORT engines for video-over-Gigabit Ethernet. Cyclone devices are the first FPGAs we've found that not only win on price, but also deliver the flexible memory architecture we need to improve design efficiencies.”
Alain Rivard
Vice President, Research & Development
Texas Memory Systems
“For our products, high performance translates into customer satisfaction, and Altera’s Cyclone devices offer the optimal combination of speed, design flexibility, and cost we require to meet our performance needs. We had previously used FPGAs from other providers, but Cyclone devices have provided us with superior performance and value. We intend to continue relying on multiple Cyclone FPGAs for many years by leveraging our existing Cyclone design work in future product development.”
Holly Frost
Chief Executive Officer
Polycom Video Conferencing Systems
"Cyclone is the first FPGA that offers the right density, features, and performance to rival ASICs for high-volume applications. At these prices, we don't have to look at ASICs anymore."
Peter Voldstad
Senior Design Engineer
Intevac
“Replacing an off-the-shelf DSP processor allowed us to reduce five separate boards of components to a single board occupied mainly by a Cyclone device running an embedded Nios processor. The Altera-based approach reduced our component costs by at least 20 percent and decreased our power consumption to a fifth of what it had been. In addition, we are enjoying lower manufacturing costs and higher product reliability due to much simpler product architecture. These results, combined with the excellent support we are getting from our Altera distributor, Arrow Electronics, confirm that we made best choice by going with Altera.”
David Main
Engineering Group Manager
Wireless Reading Systems
"Offering a compact, low-cost solution is critical to the success of our product. Choosing an Altera programmable solution allowed us to replace a competitive FPGA and an off-the-shelf processor with a single Cyclone FPGA hosting a Nios processor at one-fifth the cost. In addition, the Altera solution provided us with greater integration, a smaller overall form factor, lower power consumption, and flexibility that was not possible in the prior solution."
Martin Lie
Software Architect
Siemens A&D AS
"We will use the low-cost Cyclone FPGAs in the development of our next-generation high available and fail-safe programmable logic controller. Cyclone FPGAs are a great fit for industrial applications, and using them will reduce our costs, reinforcing our leadership position in the industrial automation market."
Matthias Metzler
R&D Engineer
Trans-Lux Corporation
"We needed an FPGA vendor that allows us to develop our visual communications systems in the shortest amount of time and at the lowest cost. We selected Altera for a number of reasons. First, they provide superior tools that allow us to quickly complete our designs. Second, with their Stratix devices that offer DSP blocks and the highest memory density, Altera has the advantage as far as FPGA features are concerned. Finally, with the new Cyclone devices, Altera now has the price advantage as well. We have lots of applications that are a good fit for these devices."
Milo Whitehead
Senior Electrical Engineer
Moving Pixel
"I have used devices from both Altera and Xilinx, and Altera's Quartus II is the most complete and well-integrated tool for developing programmable logic designs I have ever experienced. Its powerful integrated synthesis feature is a great asset in getting designs done quickly and efficiently. I have most recently used Quartus II to develop Stratix II and Cyclone designs for the High Dynamic Range display. Stratix II FPGAs deliver the high-performance digital signal processing functions needed to produce the most crisp and detailed visuals, and Cyclone series FPGAs provide the lowest cost, broadening the appeal of this leading-edge display technology."
Scott Silver
Principal Engineer
Sigma Instruments
"The low-cost combination of Nios processors in Cyclone devices allows us to integrate all of our needed processor and peripheral functions into a single Altera device, saving engineering time and board space. The Altera solution enables us to avoid problems with component obsolescence, since our product lifecycles are fairly long. Going forward, we intend to replace all of our microprocessor designs with a Nios processor in a Cyclone device."
George Diehl
Engineering Manager
Oilfield Electric Marine
"Our company had not used programmable logic before, but the Cyclone family convinced us that we could achieve a high degree of design flexibility at the lowest possible cost. Even though it is a new product family, Altera's successful track record of shipping Stratix devices demonstrated to us that they could deliver Cyclone devices in a short amount of time, and the fact that we now have them in-hand proves that we made the right decision."
Gary Pace
Principal Engineer
TCL Multimedia Electronics
"Our products target consumer electronics markets that require the lowest possible prices. With Altera's Cyclone devices, we can meet our low-cost goals and use programmable logic in plasma display panel solutions where it wasn't possible before."
Dr. Xiaolin Yan
Director
Institute of Flat Display Technology
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
"Because of its flexibility, programmable logic is clearly the preferred solution for high-end AV broadcast equipment applications that require high performance, small quantities, and short development times. Until now, it has been too expensive for high-volume commercial-range applications. Cyclone devices are the first FPGAs that give us the advantage of programmable logic at the price of an ASIC. We believe Cyclone FPGAs will be the perfect solution for the development of our AG-DVX100 series commercial A/V equipment."
Kunihiko Miyagi
Group Manager, 1st Engineering Group
Professional AV Systems Business Unit, AVC Company
Efficient Channel Coding Inc.
"Our IPStar customer modem will be produced in volumes of 100,000 to 1 million units per year, so price is our bottom line. The Cyclone FPGA is the only PLD that hits the price points we need, and eliminates the need for us to consider an ASIC."
Frank Schossler
Chief Operating Officer
INNOS Co., Ltd.
"Altera's rapid ramp-up of the Cyclone family allows system developers to take advantage of its low cost immediately following the new family's introduction."
Chang Ho Lee
Research & Design Engineer
Precision MicroDynamics, Inc.
"In the industrial marketplace, Precision MicroDynamics specializes in providing motion control cards for the purpose of controlling motors with precision and efficiency. PMDi engineers looked to Altera's intellectual property cores to give them a time-to-market advantage. With Altera's PCI MegaCore logic function and new low-cost Cyclone device family, we see a great cost-effective solution that allows PMDi to get to market faster. PMDi's series controllers need to support multiple applications on a single design without hardware modifications. With Altera's Cyclone FPGAs, we will be able to add more functionality while reducing costs—something unattainable from any other FPGA vendor."
Andy Matkovic
General Manager
Nova Engineering
"We have used low-cost FPGAs in the past, but they were typically too slow for many applications. Cyclone devices are the first low-cost FPGAs that easily meet our performance requirements."
Paul Krotchen
Director of Wireless Networking
Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co. Ltd.
"Altera Cyclone FPGAs provide high flexibility to our medical equipment products. Cyclone devices are more cost-efficient than ASICs, which have high start-up costs and the barrier of minimum order quantities. Also, Altera's design software is quick and easy, providing us additional cost and time-to-market advantages."
Mu Le Min
Vice President & Director for R&D
