What Customers Are Saying About Altera's Stratix Series FPGAs
Agilent EEsof EDA Division
"Agilent's ADS provides a powerful EDA software system which delivers industry-leading simulation technology that helps customers obtain the most accurate results. Altera's Stratix® FPGA multi-gigabit-per-second transceiver models achieve accuracy by building the model from the actual netlist. Customers leveraging ADS in their Stratix IV FPGA designs can expect to achieve faster, more accurate designs ensuring signal integrity."
Joe Civello
ADS Product Marketing Manager
Cadence Design Systems
“We are pleased to enable design-in support for Altera’s Stratix IV FPGAs with our industry-leading Allegro PCB design and analysis solution. Altera’s 40-nm Stratix IV FPGAs raise the bar for programmable logic devices. While their high-end transceivers are among the fastest in the industry, customers will face new analysis challenges. With our unique constraint-driven PCB design solution combined with simulation-ready transceiver models from Altera; our joint customers will be on the path to first time design success.”
Brad Griffin
Product Marketing Director
XtremeData, Inc.
“Over the years, Altera’s Stratix FPGAs provide us with the density and memory bandwidth that our database system requires. With its latest 40-nm Stratix IV FPGAs, Altera is delivering a device that offers the industry’s highest density and highest bandwidth, while also featuring transceiver blocks capable of operating at up to 8.5 Gbps. We are confident the use of Stratix IV FPGAs in our next-generation Decision Support Systems (DSS) will enable us to exceed our aggressive system performance goals.”
Geno Valente
Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Synopsys, Inc.
“The Synplicity Business Group’s long-standing partnership with Altera allows us to provide synthesis support for new devices such as Stratix IV FPGAs upon introduction. Early access to new device architecture details lets us optimize our software for these new devices so our mutual customers can start designing to them right away and achieve great performance with low-power consumption. The combination of Altera® Stratix IV FPGAs and Synopsys’ Synplicity synthesis solutions gives designers more value, more quickly and at less cost.”
George Zafiropoulos
Vice President of Solutions Marketing
IntelliProp
“IntelliProp provides SAS and SATA IP to its customers. Working with Altera as our partner we are committed to delivering development solutions that bring Altera’s performance, density and power advantages to ASIC, SoC and IP designers. The use of Altera’s Stratix IV FPGAs will enable us to provide designers advanced tools that enable high-performance system development.”
Hiren Patel
President and CEO
Mentor Graphics
“Leveraging 40-nm technology, Altera’s new Stratix IV device family delivers a high-density, high-performance solution that should allow FPGAs to make greater penetration in many key markets. We are pleased to continue our commitment to high-performance synthesis solutions for Altera devices to benefit our mutual customers.”
Simon Bloch
Vice President and General Manager
Mentor Graphics Design and Synthesis Division
SRC Computers, Inc.
“We use Altera’s Stratix family of FPGAs because they consistently deliver the density and performance our systems require. With Stratix IV FPGAs, we know we will be getting the most advanced FPGA solution that will provide us with a worry-free roadmap to 40-nm technology.”
Jon Huppenthal
President and CEO
GiDEL
“Through our continued collaboration, Altera and GiDEL remain committed to delivering leading-edge solutions that bring Altera’s performance, density and power advantages to high-performance computing system applications. The use of Altera’s Stratix IV FPGAs will also enable us to provide engineering teams advanced, cost-effective verification solutions for ASIC, SoC and IP designs.”
Reuven Weintraub
Founder and CTO
BittWare
“The Stratix IV GX FPGA raises the bar in transceiver-based FPGA technology performance. Our S4 family of COTS products leverages the chip’s unparalleled support for serial I/O applications by enabling customers to easily and quickly deploy their high-performance FPGA designs, while also retaining the ability to modify, update, and enhance their designs in the future.”
Darren Taylor
Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing
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
Anue Systems, Inc.
“Altera’s Stratix family of FPGAs is the cornerstone of our product development because they consistently deliver the performance and density that our cutting-edge systems require. With the new Stratix IV FPGAs, we know we are getting the most advanced FPGA solution available and a straight-forward migration path to 40-nm technology. These new FPGAs allow Anue Systems to deliver the complex solutions and capabilities that our customers demand.”
Hemi Thaker
President and CEO
Fairlight
“The Stratix III family represents an excellent direction for high-capacity, full-featured FPGAs. The architecture is well suited to the performance-intensive DSP processing that is required by our industry. Also, the unique power-reduction capabilities that the family offers will be a valuable asset for developing the highest speed designs while making it easier to meet thermal management and power budget requirements. Stratix III devices are well-positioned for the needs of our next-generation products in every aspect.”
Tino Fibaek
CTO
Andrew Corporation
"The OneBase family of Base Station Systems offers network operators a range of techniques and deployment technologies to meet build-out requirements and deliver coverage, capacity and high-quality service to end-users. The Stratix and HardCopy families have been key enablers of Andrew’s success in this space. And Stratix III, with its lower power consumption, higher integration, and path to HardCopy III structured ASICs remains at the heart of our design plans.”
Bob Suffern
Vice President, Research and Development
El Camino GmbH
“As an established provider of engineering services to a broad range of end markets, El Camino has used Altera’s industry-leading Stratix II FPGAs in many advanced applications. For the next generations of these projects, we are leveraging Stratix III FPGAs to meet the most aggressive performance and cost targets with lower power consumption. Altera’s excellent track record of delivering new products on or ahead of schedule reinforces our confidence that we can meet our customers’ ever-tighter production schedules.”
Wolfgang Loewer
Managing Director
Gleichmann Electronics Research
"The industry's biggest FPGAs in the Stratix II family have proved to be a successful foundation for our FPGA development systems and hardware accelerator/cosimulator products. By pushing the FPGA capacity envelope even further, the Stratix III family will enable us to deliver the most functionality to our customers. Also, the Stratix III family offers the most advanced I/O features and memory interfaces, including the most precise dynamic trace compensation and dynamic on-chip termination, which will be a great help in developing the highest performance multi-FPGA designs."
Dieter Scheurer
Managing Director
GiDEL
“We have had the opportunity to review the architecture and design of the Stratix III FPGAs from Altera and believe they will be well accepted in the marketplace. We will definitely use them within our next generation of Reconfigurable PROCessor™ systems used by electronics companies around the world for algorithm verification and in-system coprocessors, as well as ASIC emulation and debug.”
Reuven Weintraub
President and CEO
Heidelberg Digital
"The Stratix II family is a testament to Altera's commitment to invest significantly in R&D. Speed and density improvements with new FPGA products are always expected, but the increases in the Stratix II family are above my expectations.
First, the architectural innovations in Stratix II will give me an additional boost in usable gates. For example, the rounding feature in the DSP blocks enables me to use fewer logic resources for the imaging functions in our printer products. Also, the added flexibility in the Stratix II PLL circuits expands their usefulness, allowing me to reduce or eliminate the need to allocate logic resources for these functions. With continued support for 3.3-volt I/O and the ability to drive 5.0-volt TTL, I can avoid the additional cost and complexity of external components to shift voltage levels.
These and other features provided by the Stratix II family will keep Altera at the top of my FPGA list. As our customers demand more features and faster products, I think the Stratix II family will help us meet or exceed those expectations while keeping our development and product costs in check."
Brian Mix
Senior Staff Engineer
Ericsson Labs, Italy
"Unique features in Altera's Stratix family, such as clock switchover and dynamic PLL reconfiguration fit our network synchronization applications perfectly by allowing us to use redundant functions to achieve high reliability.
Roberto Teodori
Senior Hardware Designer
"In our packet-oriented applications, we need lots of memory buffers, as well as memories with a large data width to implement complex state machines. The Stratix EP1S80 devices we have received meet this need by offering a wide range of useful memory structures on a single chip."
Osvoldo Simonelli
Senior Hardware Designer
NetEffect
"We chose the Stratix II family for our ASIC prototyping efforts because it includes the industry's highest-density FPGAs. In addition, the advanced architecture of Stratix II devices provides clear performance advantages which aids our prototyping and helps to accelerate our time-to-market."
Terry Hulett
Vide President of Engineering
Siemens Information and Communication Networks, Inc.
"We at Siemens ICN chose Stratix FPGAs because they offer a combination of significant DSP capabilities and a large amount of internal memory. Also, Altera has done an impressive job of meeting their announced delivery dates for this family."
Jens Tiedemann
Director, FPGA Design Division
Videotek—A Division of Leitch Technology
"We have received our first Stratix II EP2S130 and EP2S60 devices, and will be incorporating them into our next-generation video test equipment. The extra logic capacity, higher performance, and DSP blocks in Stratix II devices are a great fit for implementing the high-performance signal processing functions that our products deliver."
Polo Recuay
Vice President of Engineering
Nortel Networks
"In order to deliver unmatched scalable IP services, our market-leading Shasta products require high-performance components with premium memory bandwidth. Offering the most on-chip memory, processor blocks for accelerating complex functions, supporting single-ended and differential I/O standards, and dedicated serializer/deserializer circuitry for high-speed interfaces, Stratix devices meet our high-performance bandwidth-intensive system needs."
Dave Perri
Shasta IP Services
Stratus Technologies
"Stratus Technologies requires the highest degree of integration and fast time-to-market for our industry-leading fault-tolerant computing products. The Stratix II family offers us the opportunity to develop our largest FPGA designs to date, while keeping our development cycles to a minimum."
Jeff Somers
Director of Hardware Engineering
Siemens Medical
"With its high-performance DSP blocks, large RAM blocks, rich logic resources, and I/O and clocking capabilities, Altera's Stratix family provides the functionality and performance levels that significantly boost the level of complex and computationally intensive signal processing functions that can be implemented in a programmable logic device."
David Finger
Senior Fellow
STS Technologies
"I have developed programmable logic device designs for the last decade. During that time, I’ve used tools from both Xilinx and Altera.
A customer recently contracted our services to develop a PCI-X board, insisting that I use Xilinx Virtex-II devices. I quickly did a cost comparison of the Xilinx solution with Altera’s Stratix II devices, which also met the customer’s needs, and determined that the Altera solution was far less expensive. For the first manufacturing run of 100 boards, the Altera solution was close to half a million dollars lower in cost than the Xilinx solution.
When a design opportunity arises, I look at offerings from both Altera and Xilinx to find the best fit. I evaluate device functionality, time-to-market (as reflected by tools), and cost of the completed device design. I have never found a case where the Xilinx offering would have been a better choice over the Altera solution. There is just no comparison."
Scott Chaney
President
Motorola Computer Group
"In our MXP multi-service packet transport platform, we need the highest performance devices to provide a high-speed link from network processing to the mesh fabric under emerging open standards, including the proposed CompactPCI Serial Mesh Backplane standard. Altera's portfolio of programmable logic solutions, including Stratix, APEX II, and Mercury devices, help meet our needs with compelling speed and on-chip memory features. Altera devices are also ideally suited to demonstrating the significant advantages of the CSMB standard for high-speed packet environments with the ability to connect to ATM, Frame Relay, and proprietary protocols associated with 3G wireless applications."
Jeff Rhodes
Business Manager
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
Legend Silicon
"We require the highest level of integration for the development of our wireless digital transmission products. Altera’s Stratix II family includes the largest FPGAs available in the market, and the family architecture offers an excellent mix of DSP and memory resources. We look forward to leveraging these benefits using the EP2S130 devices we have received."
Dinesh Venkatachalam
Vice President of Engineering
Mango DSP, Inc.
"The DSP blocks in Stratix FPGAs provided the right combination of features, performance and flexibility for designing our products for the video security, surveillance, and imaging markets. By offering more than four times the number of DSP blocks in Stratix II FPGAs compared to the first Stratix family, Altera provides a very compelling product to us."
Mike Berlin
President
DigiVision
"Stratix FPGAs have been the key to our ability to demonstrate our real-time, large-kernel image enhancement technology targeted for consumer electronics applications. The high-speed DSP blocks and generously-sized memories in Stratix devices have enabled our design to run at 100 MHz, which is well over our requirements. By shortening our design cycles and reducing our development time, Stratix devices are fulfilling the promise of programmable logic, allowing us to offer our technology for improving image quality and lowering costs for manufacturers of standard and high-definition TVs, DVD players, and set-top boxes."
Terry Coleman
ASIC Development Manager
EXFO, Inc.
"The Stratix family offered the only product in the market that could address our needs. The EP1S80 had the memory and programmable logic capacity to meet our needs both today and in the future, and it easily met our performance requirements for our newest multi-channel product family."
Jim Stevens
Vice President
EXFO Gnubi Products
Teleview
"We chose Altera because Stratix devices were the only FPGAs that provided us with the right combination of high-end digital signal processing and memory capabilities for HDTV applications. Also, Altera's tools and support enabled us to quickly design and bring to market our new products while minimizing development risks."
Yim Jaewon
President
The Dini Group
"With the rise of ASIC mask costs and the associated risks of custom device development, it is more important than ever for product developers to prove their digital designs with advanced platforms like the DN5000k10. The EP1S80 provides great logic value, and the aggregation of flexible, high-performance Stratix FPGA-based resources and other desirable design development elements in our new platform make it a great fit for many complex applications."
Mike Dini
President
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
Marconi
"We are pleased to be receiving production-quality versions of Stratix devices. Our design required large amounts of embedded memory, and Stratix devices were the only FPGAs that could deliver what we needed."
Dave Blakeney
Vice President
Engineering for Broadband Routing and Switching Group
NEC System Technologies, Ltd.
"I have been using Quartus II software to develop our Stratix FPGA design for the past few months. Now that we have the Stratix FPGA, we look forward to taking advantage of the outstanding DSP performance."
Kenichi Hosoya
Manager, 2nd Engineering Department
Servers Platform Division
Extreme Networks
"We could not attempt our current project without Stratix FPGAs, so we were very happy to receive our first device shipment. We implemented an impressive portion of our system on a single Stratix FPGA using nearly all of its high-performance features, and Quartus II software made it easy."
Lorne Graves
Senior FPGA Designer
Pirus Networks
"Altera's rapid rollout of Stratix FPGAs enables us to bring new capabilities and higher levels of performance to our PSX-1000 intelligent storage switch product line. By offering the most on-chip memory in the PLD industry, Stratix FPGAs fulfill a great need for bandwidth-hungry applications in storage and other markets."
Doug Wood
Vice President of Engineering
Sensormatic/Tyco Safety Products, Tyco International
"We will utilize Stratix FPGAs to bring new levels of innovation and integration to our video product line. They will permit new and impressive features in our products."
Dan Fuoco
Senior Principal Engineer
Cadant
"Our cable modem termination systems require significant memory resources to meet the rigorous demands of the DOCSIS specification. By architecting Stratix devices to provide the most on-chip memory of any PLD, Altera acknowledges the importance of memory in today's multimillion-gate designs. Further, the TriMatrix memory structure allocates the on-chip memory resources into block sizes that make sense in system-level design."
Kevin Urban
Lead Hardware Engineer
Echotek
"Now that we have our first Stratix FPGAs, we are beginning to exercise many of their impressive features on our board. Stratix DSP blocks have allowed us to hit speeds that were not possible with earlier PLDs, and will be a great boost to our high-performance digital radio products."
Greg Carter
Hardware Design Engineer
Siemens Ultrasound
"With the introduction of embedded hard DSP blocks in the Stratix family, Altera now has the ammunition to compete with ASICs for signal processing designs that were once completely impractical in FPGA technology. The advantage of having access to 0.13μm multiplier and accumulator performance without the heavy ASIC NRE cannot be ignored."
Kevin M. Hubbard
Sr. ASIC Design Engineer
Seagate Technology, RSS, LLC
"We were very pleased to receive our Stratix devices. They meet our requirements for high bandwidth within a small footprint."
Derrick E. Burton
Staff Engineer
Cedar Point Communications
"With the introduction of the Stratix family, Altera continues to supply the advanced technology that allows small, leading-edge companies to stay ahead of the others by using programmable logic. The number of clock domains and the flexibility of the PLLs within Stratix devices will give us capabilities we couldn't previously get without an ASIC."
Dan English
Director of Hardware Engineering
Pirus Networks
"The combination of excellent performance and abundant memory resources intelligently allocated via the TriMatrix memory structure makes Stratix devices an attractive option for system-level design. The PSX-1000, our Storage Utility Switch based on a complex, memory intensive-architecture, demonstrates significant performance gains in Stratix devices when compared to other programmable logic offerings."
Rich Corely
Founder and Executive Vice President of Technology
D'Crypt
"D'Crypt has always been able to take advantage of Altera's leading-edge technology to deploy high-security assurance solutions to our customers. For example, Stratix DSP blocks deliver the fastest 36-bit multipliers in the programmable logic industry, enabling us to increase the performance of our cores. Furthermore, the volume of memory in Stratix devices, hierarchically organized via the TriMatrix memory structure, allows us to develop innovative products not possible with other PLDs, thus improving our offerings in symmetric and public-key cipher IP cores."
Antony Ng
Chief Executive Officer
Echotek
"The Stratix device architecture offers generous memory resources and other performance-related features that are ideal for the kind of real-time wideband signal processing that we do at Echotek. Also, due to their integrated MAC functions, Stratix DSP blocks efficiently implement complex arithmetic functions like FIR filters without using PLD logic resources, resulting in significant cost savings."
Ralph Kimball
President and Founder
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