According to a Semico survey released in April 2003, Altera's MAX® devices remain the unchallenged leader of the CPLD market. With their ease-of-use, low costs, and high performance, MAX devices have earned a large and loyal following since their introduction in 1988 and continue to reign as king of the CPLD hill. MAX CPLDs recently achieved $3 billion in cumulative sales with the delivery of the 300 millionth device to Alcatel and lead the market for a wide variety of applications in the communications, consumer, industrial, and computing markets.
Figure 1 shows the Semico survey findings of the 2002 CPLD market.
Figure 1: 2002 CPLD Market (1)
Note 1: Source—Semico Research Corporation, 2003
Altera's general-purpose, non-volatile MAX CPLDs are supported by the industry-leading Quartus® II design software, which provides synthesis, place-and-route, design verification, and device programming. Using a free version of the easy-to-use Quartus II software (which can be downloaded at no cost) helps designers minimize their total development costs.
