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Solving Industry Challenges with Altera® FPGAs

Altera delivers solutions enabling innovation from edge to cloud in industrial automation. With our FPGAs, industries can develop safe, reliable, and optimized designs.  We provide a wide range of FPGAs and ARM core integrated SoC devices, tools, IPs, reference solutions, etc., catering to diverse application use cases, including artificial intelligence, edge computing, and robotics.

Why FPGAs

Real-Time Control with FPGAs

Industrial applications run on the notion of a tight control cycle. From PLCs to robotic actuators to sensor sampling, the workload follows the sense-decide-act paradigm at frequencies of up to 30 Hz. FPGAs provide the ability to process multiple streams of data in parallel and enable decision making within real-time constraints while minimizing jitter. “Hard” real-time is uniquely suited to programmable logic implementation as it avoids the variations of software-based processing

Adaptive Industrial Connectivity

Connectivity amongst industrial systems, particularly at the “Field-level” argues in favor of FPGA. The multitude of nodes in the automation domain and the varying needs of interconnecting them – power, latency, cost, and bandwidth – demand a very high degree of flexibility in terms of signaling, voltage levels and frequency that FPGAs are uniquely provisioned with. For extremely high rates of traffic, on-board transceivers seamless map to multiple protocols for back-haul connectivity

Functional Safety with Altera FPGAs

Functional Safety requirements are de-facto requirements in industrial automation. The ability to perform machine-machine and human-machine interactions at high frequencies within tight tolerances demands the ability to detect, deflect or tolerate defects in the processing electronics. Altera FPGAs , tools, and IP meet the rigorous requirements of IEC61508 for Safety Integrity levels providing the perfect complement to mission-critical workloads.

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High-Speed MAX® 10 FPGA-based 800-volt eFuse

Improve high-voltage industrial and transportation system reliability and lower operating costs with a reprogrammable FPGA-based solution.

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