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Altera Corporation, the world’s largest pure-play FPGA solutions provider, today announced collaborations with Mercury Systems and VadaTech to expand its Agilex® 9 FPGA ecosystem with new COTS-based solutions for next-generation defense platforms. By combining Agilex 9 medium-band Direct RF FPGAs with industry-standard, open-architecture systems, the companies are helping defense customers accelerate time to market, reduce SWaP, and enable more flexible, software-defined RF capabilities in mission-critical systems.

Through this collaboration, Altera is supporting solutions based on open architectures, including SOSA-aligned OpenVPX platforms, delivering greater interoperability and flexibility. These field-proven systems help reduce integration risk and accelerate deployment while enabling rapid adaptability to adjacent mission requirements. With its medium-band direct RF capabilities, Agilex 9 provides an optimal balance of bandwidth, performance, and power efficiency, making it well suited for next-generation software-defined RF systems across a range of defense applications.

Craig Goodwin, Senior Director of Mercury’s Mixed Signal line of business, said, “Integrating medium-band converters into a high-performance FPGA provides the SWaP benefits needed for our boards to deliver mission-critical processing to the edge. Altera’s ready-to-use hardware and software tools enabled faster evaluation of the product’s capabilities and helps us design solutions for our customers more quickly. We selected the Agilex 9 medium-band Direct RF FPGA because of its best-in-class data converters and compute resources for this RF spectrum, with up to 10x SWaP advantage versus other FPGA options.”

Saeed Karamooz, CEO at VadaTech, added, “Agilex 9 Direct RF Series FPGAs enable high-performance, standards-based VPX solutions that integrate seamlessly within larger system architectures. Working alongside Altera, we help customers accelerate integration and bring advanced RF capabilities into deployed platforms.”

Agilex 9 Direct RF Series FPGAs integrate RF, compute and high-speed transceivers into a unified, programmable architecture, enabling real-time processing of large volumes of RF data at the edge for applications such as adaptive radar, cognitive electronic warfare, and secure, software-defined communications. This high level of integration supports the shift toward distributed, multi-domain operations requiring rapid decision-making and adaptability, while delivering the bandwidth, performance, and I/O needed for the most demanding embedded applications.

“Defense systems must process more data, across wider bandwidths, with greater flexibility,” said John Sotir, General Manager of Altera’s Military, Aerospace, and Government business unit. “Our work with Mercury Systems and VadaTech reinforces Altera’s commitment to advancing Direct RF technology and enabling more agile, scalable, and software-defined defense systems.”

Availability
Agilex 9 Direct RF AGRM027 devices, along with development kits, Mercury Systems DRF5660 boards, VadaTech VPX540 boards and supporting software are available for order today. For more information, visit Altera’s Agilex 9 Direct RF-Series product page or contact your local Altera representative: https://www.altera.com/contact.html
 

About Altera 

Altera is the industry’s largest pure-play FPGA solutions provider, with an exclusive focus on delivering FPGA innovations to the broad market. The company provides a comprehensive portfolio of programmable hardware, software, and development tools that empower designers of electronic systems to innovate, differentiate, and execute with greater speed and efficiency. With industry-leading FPGAs, SoCs, and design solutions, Altera enables customers to achieve faster time-to-market, greater flexibility, and optimized performance across a wide range of applications, spanning physical AI, industrial automation, audio/video, robotics, aerospace, defense, data centers, telecommunications, and more. For more information, visit www.altera.com

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Altera Corporation
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