All Reference Designs

Altera and its partners develop and deliver reference designs that show efficient solutions for common system design problems.

Refer to the Design Examples section for additional examples of code to help you address your design needs.

Available reference designs can be found in the table below. Click the link in the Product Name column to navigate to the product page for more details. Use the navigation on the left to list IP by function, or use the search box on the main Intellectual Property page to search product descriptions and keywords for IP and reference designs.

Product Name	Supported Devices	SOPC Builder Ready	Qsys Compliant	Provider
10 Gbps Ethernet Hardware Demonstration Reference Design	Stratix IV GX	-		Altera
10/100/1000 Ethernet Data Path Reference Design	Stratix II GX		-	Altera
3GPP LTE Turbo Decoder Reference Design	Stratix III E, Cyclone III, Stratix II GX, Arria GX, Stratix II	-	-	Altera
3GPP UMTS Turbo Decoder Reference Design	Stratix IV GX, Stratix III E, Stratix II GX, Stratix II, Arria II GX, Arria GX	-	-	Altera
4K Upscaling Video Conversion Reference Design	Stratix IV GX, Arria II GX	-	-	Altera
Active Parallel Remote Update Reference Design	Cyclone III	-	-	Altera
ADI Parallel Port SDRAM Controller Reference Design	Cyclone II, Cyclone, Stratix, Stratix GX	-	-	Altera
Automotive Graphics System Reference Design	Cyclone II, Cyclone	-	-	Altera
Control Plane Bridge Reference Design	Stratix II, Stratix	-	-	Quasar Systems, Inc.
Crest Factor Reduction Reference Design	-	-	-	Altera
DFT/IDFT Reference Design for 3GPP LTE	Stratix III E, Stratix II	-	-	Altera
Drive-on-a-Chip Motor Control Reference Design	Cyclone IV GX, Cyclone V GX, Cyclone V GT, 5CE	-		Altera
DTMB Reference Design	Stratix III E, Stratix II	-	-	Tsinghua University
EZDMA Reference Design for Cyclone IV FPGA	Cyclone IV GX	-	-	PLDA
Format Conversion Reference Design	Stratix IV GX, Stratix II GX		-	Altera
Format Conversion Reference Design V2	Stratix IV GX, Arria II GX		-	Altera
FPGA Design Security Solution Using Secure Memory Device Reference Design	Cyclone III, Cyclone II	-	-	Altera
FPGA Design Security Using MAX II	Stratix II GX, Cyclone II, MAX II, Stratix II, Cyclone, Stratix, Stratix GX	-	-	Altera
High Definition Video (UDX) Reference Design	Stratix IV GX			Altera
I2C Controller Reference Design	Cyclone II, Stratix II, Cyclone, Stratix		-	Microtronix Inc.
iPORT NTx-Pro Board Reference Design	Cyclone III	-	-	Pleora Technologies
Media Independent Interface Reference Design	Stratix II, Stratix		-	MaCo-Engineering
Multi-output scaler	Stratix IV GX, Arria II GX	-		Altera
PCI Express High Performance Reference Design	Stratix IV GX, Arria II GX, Stratix II GX, Arria GX, Stratix V GX	-	-	Altera
PCI Express to External Memory Reference Design	Stratix IV GX, Arria II GX	-		Altera
PCI to Local Bridge Reference Design	MAX II	-	-	Dexcel Electronics Designs
QR Matrix Decomposition Reference Design	Stratix III E	-	-	Altera
SDI PCIe Bridging Reference Design	Stratix IV GX	-	-	Omnitek
Serial RapidIO to PCI Bridge Reference Design	Arria II GX, Stratix IV GX	-	-	Jennic Ltd
Serial RapidIO to TI 6482 DSP Reference Design	Stratix II GX		-	Altera
Serial RapidIO to TI 6488 DSP Reference Design	Stratix IV GX, Arria II GX		-	Altera
Single-Port Triple-Speed Ethernet and On-Board PHY Chip Reference Design	Stratix IV GX, Arria II GX	-		Altera
SPI4.2 to XAUI Bridge Reference Design	Stratix II GX	-	-	Octera
TFT LCD Controller Reference Design	Cyclone III, Cyclone II, Cyclone			Digital Blocks
Triple Rate SDI Reference Design	Arria II GX	-	-	Altera
VGA Controller and Nios II Reference Design	Cyclone II, Stratix II		-	Altera
Video Over IP Reference Design	Cyclone II, Cyclone, Stratix, Stratix GX		-	Altera
Video Processing Reference Design	Cyclone III	-		Altera
WCDMA DUC and DDC Reference Designs	Stratix III E, Cyclone III	-	-	Altera
WiMAX DUC and DDC Reference Designs	Stratix II	-	-	Altera
XS4 10 Gigabit Ethernet and HiGig SPI4.2 Bridge	Stratix II, Stratix GX	-	-	MorethanIP

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