Altera Solution Acceleration Partner (ASAP) Program
An initiative designed to help companies accelerate innovation and time-to-market, while growing their businesses more efficiently with support from Altera and partners.
About ASAP
Altera's Partner Program unites experts from diverse end markets, including data centers, communications, and embedded systems. The program offerings span a comprehensive range of products and services, from foundational training and IP development to simulation, emulation, hardware manufacturing, and full turnkey system design. This ensures end-to-end support for every aspect of the FPGA deployment process. The ASAP Program provides the necessary resources and support to help companies tackle complex design challenges and stay competitive in today's rapidly evolving market, driven by artificial intelligence.
Partner Types
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Boards
Devlopment Kits, Production-Ready Boards, SOC (System on Chip), and Daughter Cards.
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IP
A wide variety of horizontal and vertical market Intellectual Property (IPs) solutions.
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Software
Design tools, simulators, operating systems (OS), hypervisors, and other related software solutions.
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Design Services
HW design, SW development, PCB, simulation, debug, verification, manufacturing, certification
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Education & Training
Customer training for Altera FPGA, design tools, and software
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Manufacturing
Contract manufacturers to quickly scale HW production
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Thermal
Thermal Design, heatsink, thermal simulation, TIM
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AI & Cloud
Data training/inference, scale in/out, computer vision, model optimizing & performance, production transition.
Program Benefits
| Member | Select | Preferred | Premier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Presence on Altera.com Partner Listing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Presence on Altera.com Offering Listing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Altera Brand / Marketing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Access to Partner Sales Enablement Resources | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Access to online Technical Training / Certification | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Participation in Program webinars / meetings | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Quartus Development Tools | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| IP Licensing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Technical Support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ‘Special’ Device Pricing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Joint Marketing Opportunities | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Access to Internal Technical / Training / Events | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Program Levels
Member
Member-level partners are in development with complementary products and services for Altera devices, which are not yet ready for customer engagement
Select
Select partners have at least one Altera-based offering that is ready for customer engagement. Membership at this level encourages awareness building through public offering listing and co-marketing.
Preferred
Preferred partners are scaling to a broad set of customers with at least one Altera-based offering. They have a proven track record with customer engagements and co-marketing.
Premier
Premier partners are enjoying broad, high-volume success with their Altera- based offerings and tight alignment with Altera’s own go-to-market strategy.