Building a complete system solution with an FPGA requires not only the many resources available in Altera® FPGAs but also intellectual property (IP), ASSP, and complete system solutions. Altera works with partners and leverages their expertise to provide a full portfolio of solutions for end-market applications. See Table 1.
| Table 1. Altera Partners | |
| Partner | Product |
|---|---|
| MorethanIP | MorethanIP is a privately owned and profitable design and IP house concentrating on high-speed communications, serial backplane, and embedded system technologies. Their services include design, specification, and implementation of standard products, system architectures, and customer-specific solutions. |
| PLDA | PLDA designs and sells a wide range of FPGA interfacing solutions for the PCI market (PCI Express, PCI-X, CompactPCI, and PC104/PC104+). PLDA provides complete solutions including IP cores, hardware, software, consulting services, and comprehensive technical support provided directly by the IP designers. |
| Nuvation | Nuvation is one of the largest and most respected engineering design services firms in the industry. They provide IP core solutions for the storage market along with engineering services such as board design, signal integrity consulting, FPGA and HardCopy® ASIC design, firmware for digital signal processing (DSP), MCU, NPU, and GPU devices, RTOS, device drivers, APIs, and turnkey product realization. |
| Helion Technology | Helion Technology is a specialist provider of data security and encryption IP, with a particular emphasis on high-performance solutions. Helion offers an extensive range of innovative and product-proven security IP cores. |
| XtremeData | XtremeData develops innovative solutions for high-performance computing. Target markets include imaging, communications, bio-informatics, and enterprise computing. |
| SRC | SRC developed an architecture that provides orders of magnitude increases in performance over conventional microprocessors. |
| Impulse Accelerated Technologies, Inc. | Impulse Accelerated Technologies, Inc. serves the needs of software and hardware developers through the development and distribution of software-to-hardware compilation. Impulse products are used worldwide for applications that include embedded systems, video and image processing, digital signal processing, security, communications and high-performance, FPGA-accelerated computing. |
| Vreelin Engineering | Vreelin Engineering develops cutting-edge FPGA IP for Altera with a special emphasis on USB IP. Vreelin provides not only the IP HDL, but the supporting firmware and software, including Windows device drivers where appropriate. Vreelin's goal is to provide FPGA designers with a complete solution. |
| Silicon Spectrum | Silicon Spectrum supplies the only line of FPGA graphics solutions for Linux and Microsoft Windows. They offer a range of products from basic VGA controllers to 3D accelerated graphics adapter functionality in a configurable IP core. |
