National Instruments
“National Instruments develops high-performance modular instrumentation based on the latest commercial technologies. We feel confident that Altera's Stratix IV GX FPGAs, featuring up to 530 thousand logic elements, 48 transceivers and 20.3 Mbits of internal memory, provide the density and performance necessary to meet our advanced design requirements. Also, with its HardCopy ASIC roadmap, Altera provides a compelling solution that delivers the lowest risk and lowest cost access to deep sub-micron ASIC benefits.”
Craig Conway
Principal Architect
Texas Instruments
“Altera solutions provide us with the flexibility to respond rapidly to changing market demands while maintaining the cost-effectiveness to address customer needs. By enabling TI to quickly deliver leading-edge display features, Altera’s FPGAs and HardCopy ASICs provide us with a critical time-to-market advantage, allowing our customers to offer the latest advances in television technology.”
John Van Scoter
Senior Vice President & General Manager of DLP Products
Motorola
“Our design goal for Horizon II was to incorporate support for multiple network technologies including GSM, GPRS, and EDGE, while keeping the product price competitive. We chose Altera HardCopy ASICs over several other component solutions, including other ASICs, because they enabled us to cost-effectively build in the functionality and flexibility to meet our customers’ needs. We have verified the operation of our HardCopy ASICs and are incorporating them into full production.”
Tom Hull
Director of Engineering
BTS Center of Excellence, Global Telecom Solutions Sector
Huawei Technologies
"HardCopy ASICs have several advantages compared with standard ASICs. The first is lower cost, the second is shorter development time and faster time-to-market, and the third is the seamless migration from FPGA to HardCopy. With these advantages, we have more options to increase the success of our products."
Jing Yangbao
Director
Fixed Network Hardware
Mercury Computer
"Altera’s HardCopy ASICs gave us FPGA-class flexibility and ASIC-class performance. We looked at the offerings from other vendors, but they could not meet the cost and performance goals. The fabrication for the HardCopy devices went very smoothly and the devices were better than advertised—it took us only half a day to verify their functionality and performance. The ability to prototype our designs in the FPGA and quickly get into the HardCopy device gave us a time-to-market advantage. Based on our experience of using the HardCopy devices, we would definitely use them again."
Richard Jaenicke
Director of Product Management
LG Electronics
"Altera HardCopy Stratix devices provide a low-risk, cost-optimized, high-volume solution for our next generation 3G basestation, eliminating the need for us to use an ASIC or standard product. By offering industry-leading density and a seamless migration path from Stratix FPGAs to HardCopy devices, Altera improves our time-to-market and lowers our costs, enabling us to penetrate new markets."
Bong-Bin Park
Senior Vice President of CDMA System Research Lab
ATEME
“Utilizing the digital signal processing block performance and on-chip memory of Altera’s Stratix II FPGAs for our encoder architecture provides great overall device efficiency. Also, aligning with Altera gives us access to HardCopy II ASICs, which provides us with an attractive, low-risk path to cost-reducing our solution.”
Francois-Xavier Parisot
Product Manager
Efficient Channel Coding, Inc.
"Altera's HardCopy solution delivered exactly what we had planned: a low-cost realization of our advanced satellite receiver technology. The day we received our HardCopy prototypes, we dropped them into the FPGA sockets on our iPSTAR satellite Internet modem product and they worked perfectly. The HardCopy process has enabled our team to quickly and cost-effectively get to low-cost volume production."
Mark Vanderaar
CEO
"Altera offers us a comprehensive solution of high-performance PLDs, intuitive yet powerful intellectual property, and excellent technical support, which is why we are using their SOPC products in all of the iPSTAR components we developed. Besides allowing us to quickly realize these complex products in a short amount of time, another reason for selecting Altera was their cost reduction path to HardCopy devices, which is unique among PLD vendors. Reducing production costs will become increasingly important to us, especially as the iPSTAR customer premise equipment is deployed in volume."
Frank Schossler
Chief Operating Officer
Inlet Technologies
“We chose Altera’s Stratix series of FPGAs to offload critical functions from the DSP processors in order to achieve high-quality, real-time HD video encoding. Besides high performance, the flexibility provided by Stratix devices allows us to rapidly develop industry-leading video compression products and respond to customer needs by adding hardware-based features upgrades. In addition, Altera offers a low-risk path to future increased cost optimization and higher performance via their HardCopy ASICs.”
Scott Labrozzi
Chief Technology Officer
Maranti Networks
"Altera's HardCopy solution offers significant differentiation from other products, which was a critical factor in our decision to partner with Altera. The HardCopy option allows Maranti to enter the market quickly and then migrate to HardCopy devices to manage costs. This solution eliminates much of the risk and significantly reduces our development cycles, giving Maranti a competitive edge."
Kuldeep Sandhu
Co-Founder, President & CEO
Extreme Networks
"As we converted some of the Altera APEX devices in our SummitPx1 into ASICs, we were faced with the difficulty of completely re-qualifying our product design. As a strategic partner, Altera recognized our objectives and offered a compelling solution with HardCopy, delivering the time-to-market advantage we were seeking, while eliminating the challenges of renegotiating IP licenses and major expense of converting to ASIC. While we envisioned having the reprogrammability of PLDs as a key component of our product, augmenting them with Altera's HardCopy devices gives us the best of both worlds. This powerful combination will give our customers optimized performance, lower overall cost, operational simplicity, and the flexibility to bring new levels of functionality to their network environments."
Herb Schneider
Vice President of Engineering
3D-Computing
"Altera FPGAs were invaluable in delivering high performance and shorter time-to-market in the development of the patent pending 3D-CBS technology. Each photon detection board in the 3D-CBS system utilizes 20 Altera FPGAs to accelerate digital signal processing functions, which play a crucial role in the system’s ability to reduce radiation to the patient, shortening examination times, and improving image quality. Each 3D-CBS system can have potentially over 100 boards, so another critical factor in our choice of Altera was their HardCopy device family, which allows us to significantly reduce our volume manufacturing costs."
Dario Crosetto
CEO
