Use Altera® design utilities to make designing with Stratix® II devices even easier. See Table 1 for various design utilities and their descriptions.
| Table 1. Stratix II Design Utilities | |
| Design Utility | Description |
|---|---|
| Enhanced Configuration Devices | Learn about Altera's enhanced configuration devices, which provide fast configuration solutions for Stratix II devices. |
| Serial Configuration Devices | Learn about Altera's low-cost serial configuration devices, the lowest-cost configuration devices in the industry. Specifically engineered for maximum efficiency, Altera's serial configuration devices deliver an advanced feature set while minimizing costs. |
| Quartus II Design Software | Design with versions 4.0 and later of Quartus® II software for Stratix II FPGA support, the #1 software in performance and productivity for high-density FPGA design. |
| SOPC Builder | Read about Quartus II software's SOPC Builder, a system development tool that makes integrating intellectual property (IP) cores at the system level easier than ever before. |
| DSP Builder | Design with Altera's DSP Builder, a digital signal processing (DSP) development tool that interfaces The MathWorks' industry-leading Simulink system-level DSP tool with Altera's industry-leading Quartus II development software. |
| Signal Integrity Center | Access Stratix II signal integrity design resources to help you develop, layout, and verify your high-speed design. |
| Memory Technology Center | Learn about embedded memory in Altera devices as well as external memory interfaces. Altera offers programmable logic solutions with the latest memory technologies, abundant on-chip memory resources, and off-chip data storage, with support for external memory interfaces at up to 300 MHz to meet your high-speed system requirements. |
| DSP Technology Center | Discover the DSP solutions available from Altera, offering you a broad range of support services, tools, and development platforms for implementing reconfigurable DSP designs in leading-edge FPGAs. |
| Parallel I/O Technology Center | Explore I/O standards and interfaces supported in Altera devices. Altera provides a comprehensive I/O interface solution with support for a variety of single-ended and differential I/O standards, external memory, and high-speed interfaces to meet high-bandwidth system requirements. |
| Board Design Guidelines Solution Center | Find out guidelines for board design and manufacturing, and explore board design resources. |
| Stratix II Device Family Questions and Answers | Get answers to common questions about Stratix II devices. |
| Stratix II Backgrounder | Read more about the Stratix II device family features and capabilities. |
| HardCopy II Devices | Minimize risks, manage uncertainty, and lower costs with high-performance HardCopy® II ASICs for high-volume production applications. |
