Altera Showcases Its Broadcast Solutions at IBC 2009

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Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 3, 2009—Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) will be showcasing its programmable logic solutions for broadcast technologies at IBC 2009 at RAI Congress Amsterdam, September 11 to 15. Altera's participation includes in-booth demonstrations showing the widest range of FPGAs available for the broadcast industry. Altera's programmable solutions enable a custom fit for each application and offer industry-leading scalability.

What: IBC 2009

When: September 11–15, 2009

Where: RAI Congress Amsterdam, Netherlands, Visit Altera in Hall 10, Booth A10

Product and Solution Demonstrations

• Altera's award-winning 40-nm FPGAs
  • Audio/video development kits featuring Altera's Stratix^® IV GX FPGAs and Arria^® II GX FPGAs: joint solutions with OmniTek, including specialized video IP 
• Video processing
  • 1080p customizable, broadcast-quality up/down/cross format conversion with high-efficiency external memory access which supports all 1080p requirements 
• Video capture and playback over PCI Express
  • 4-channel, SD-/HD-/3G-SDI video streaming over PCI Express (Gen1/Gen2) on Altera's Arria II GX and Stratix IV GX FPGAs
• High-bitrate JPEG2000 video transfer over IP
  • A future-proofed, efficient and scalable JPEG2000 CODEC solution
  • 1080p over IP end-to-end
• DisplayPort 1.1a on Altera's Arria II GX and Stratix IV GX FPGAs
  • An all-digital video interface integrated solution (DisplayPort, dual-mode and triple-rate SDI)

For additional information on Altera's participation at IBC 2009, visit IBC2009: Be Captivated by Altera.

About Altera

Altera^® programmable solutions enable system and semiconductor companies to rapidly and cost-effectively innovate, differentiate and win in their markets. Find out more about Altera's FPGA, CPLD and ASIC devices at www.altera.com. To subscribe to Altera's RSS/XML news feeds, visit Altera RSS Feeds.

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