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For Release: August 24, 1998
Altera & Integrated Silicon Systems Celebrate Successful Implementation
of Intellectual Property for PLDs
- 24 ISS DSP Megafunctions Optimized for Altera PLDs
- Customers Confirm Performance and Integration Benefits
San Jose, Calif., August 24, 1998—Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) and Integrated
Silicon Systems (ISS) today celebrated a milestone of three years of continuous
success providing their mutual customers with megafunctions, intellectual property
(IP) cores optimized for Altera's industry-leading programmable
logic devices (PLDs). From the inception of the Altera
Megafunction Partners Program (AMPPSM) in August 1995 - the first
program of its kind in the PLD industry - ISS has afforded Altera's customers
with highly-customized megafunctions which are optimized for digital signal
processing (DSP) applications.
"Altera salutes Integrated Silicon Systems' groundbreaking work in the area
of DSP intellectual property for PLDs," said Craig Lytle, senior director of
Altera's IP business unit and product planning. "Our long-standing partnership
has resulted in a number of positive implementations by our mutual customers.
This relationship is a testament both to the potential of intellectual property
in PLD-based designs, and to the importance of the AMPP program."
"Integrated Silicon Systems is proud to be a founding partner in Altera's AMPP
program," said J.G. Doherty, president and CEO of ISS. "Our customized DSP megafunctions
have enabled customers, such as Rockwell Semiconductor Systems, to realize time-to-market
advantages. Altera's low-cost PLD solutions ensure that PLD-based designs using
ISS cores are easily and seamlessly implemented in Altera devices for high-volume
production." ISS has been especially successful in delivering high-performance
Error Control Coding functions such as Reed-Solomon and Viterbi to the Altera
customer base.
Megafunctions from Altera and its AMPP partners enable designers to integrate
increasingly complex functions onto a single programmable logic device, providing
significant savings in design time and board space while increasing the efficiency
and performance of designs for a wide variety of applications. All megafunctions,
whether MegaCore™ products
provided by Altera or megafunctions provided
by AMPP partners, can be customized by the user.
In addition to providing mutually beneficial services to their customers, participants
in Altera's AMPP program are afforded with advance information on a wide variety
of Altera products and tools, including the new FLEX®
10KE and Raphael programmable
logic device families. Customers, of course, also benefit from the program through
a wide selection of megafunctions, which are parameterized for customization
to suit individual customer needs. Each core is specifically optimized for use
with Altera's PLD product families and is supported by a robust development
environment including support of tools from leading third-party
EDA vendors.
About ISS
Integrated Silicon Systems supplies specialist intellectual property (IP)
for digital signal processing (DSP) in the form of highest performance soft,
firm and hard cores to the telecommunications, wireless, digital broadcasting
and multimedia sectors of the electronics industry. The company is recognized
for the high quality of its synthesized implementations for ASIC, FPGA and PLD
technologies. ISS is unique among IP providers in this respect, using a proprietary
technology based on many years of specialist research into VLSI architectures
for high-performance DSP. The technology also permits very rapid core development
and customization. ISS is an approved third-party supplier of IP to the worldwide
customer bases of Altera and other vendors. ISS is an inaugural member of the
Virtual Socket Interface Alliance (VSIA), and a founding member of RAPID, the
IP developers' business association.
About Altera
Altera Corporation, The Programmable Solutions Company™, was founded in 1983
and is a worldwide leader in high-performance, high-density programmable logic
devices and associated computer aided engineering (CAE) logic development tools.
Programmable logic devices are semiconductor chips that offer on-site programmability
to customers. The chips are programmed using tools that run on personal computers
or engineering workstations. User benefits include ease of use, lower risk,
and fast time-to-market. The company offers the broadest line of CMOS programmable
logic devices that address high-speed, high-density, and low-power applications.
Altera products serve a broad range of markets, including telecommunications,
data communications, computers, and industrial applications. Altera common stock
is traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol ALTR. More information
on Altera can be obtained on the worldwide web at http://www.altera.com.
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