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Altera: FPGAs and the Transition to 40 nm

David Greenfield, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Altera, discusses FPGA technology and the move to 40 nm. The move to 40 nm is a significant step for the FPGA industry and this process offers clear benefits over prior nodes, including the 65-nm node and the emerging 45-nm node. With Altera at 40 nm, it's not about sacrificing one benefit to gain another. Altera’s 40-nm solutions give designers the benefits of high density, high performance, and low power. Culminating a multi-year effort of planning, development, and close collaboration with our foundry partner TSMC, Altera’s Stratix IV and HardCopy ASIC IV families enable early and broad access to 40-nm technology that would otherwise be out of reach for many customers. As a result, Altera customers gain access to the most advanced custom logic products delivering the capabilities, performance, density, and power consumption to address the most pressing needs of today’s system designers.

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Altera is the world's pioneer in system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) solutions. As a leading supplier of FPGAs, CPLDs, structured ASICs and embedded processors, Altera combines programmable logic technology with design software, IP, and design services to offer designers high-value programmable solutions. Central to Altera's embedded solutions is the Nios II processor, a user-configurable, general-purpose RISC embedded processor, and...

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