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News Release from: Altera Europe | Subject: Quartus II
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 02 July 2004
Software supports latest budget FPGA
family
Leading EDA vendors have rolled out support for the new Cyclone II FPGA family - billed as the industry's lowest ever cost FPGAs.
Leading EDA vendors have rolled out support for the new Cyclone II FPGA family - billed as the industry's lowest ever cost FPGAs Altera's collaboration with its EDA partners ensures that customers who traditionally target ASICs can now start Cyclone II designs immediately without learning new tools
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 May 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Customers using the 8.0 release to design Altera's 65nm Stratix III FPGAs on Windows platforms will see compile times reduced by up to 50%.
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A Quartus II software user working with a multiprocessor computer will experience, on average, a 20% reduction in compile times over single-processor computers.
Cyclone II devices offer 30% lower cost and more than three times the logic density than its predecessor, offering designers a unique combination of density, price and performance.
"Cyclone II devices extend the power and density range of our low-cost FPGA family and offer our customers a low-cost advantage to ASICs", said Tim Southgate, Vice President of Software and Tools Marketing, Altera.
"The support from these vendors guarantees that our customers can quickly target Cyclone II devices with their existing tool set for those applications where a low-end ASIC would traditionally be required".
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Low-cost FPGAs released
To immediately start designing with Arria GX devices, customers can use Quartus II design software version 7.1.
FPGA design software doubles productivity
Altera claims its latest software helps designers achieve more than 2x faster compile times and half the memory footprint of the nearest high-end FPGA.
Design and development software for 65nm FPGAs
Quartus II software version 7.0 supports the entire 65nm Cyclone III FPGA family and is available in both subscription and free web editions.
"All customers need to get started is to download the free Quartus II web-edition design software".
"The Cadence Incisive unified simulator and Allegro system interconnect design platform, coupled with Altera's Cyclone II FPGAs, allow design teams to increase their productivity early on in the design cycle", said Charlie Giorgetti, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Silicon-Package-Board Business Unit at Cadence.
"Cyclone II customers using Cadence technology will be able to compress verification time and overcome the inherent challenges of high-speed system interconnect design, achieving faster time-to-market and competitive pricing".
"Altera's new Cyclone II high-density/low-cost FPGAs are further expanding the market for programmable logic devices", said Simon Bloch, General Manager, Design Creation and Synthesis Division, Mentor Graphics.
"They are a viable alternative for medium-volume production applications and as such benefit from a tightly integrated development environment".
"Mentor Graphics and Altera have collaborated to align silicon and software tool capabilities and provide a highly efficient and productive design solution".
"We believe the new Cyclone II family delivers price and performance that will open up new applications previously only served by ASICs", said Jeff Garrison, Director of FPGA Products at Synplicity.
"We have collaborated closely with Altera on the Cyclone II product in order to deliver full support upon its release".
"For the Cyclone II family we developed new area optimisations which translate directly into cost savings for our customers".
"Through our strong relationship with Altera, we have ensured that our Discovery verification and Galaxy implementation platforms, especially DC FPGA synthesis, will provide full support for Altera's PLDs, including the new Cyclone II family", said Lonn Fiance, Director of Strategic Alliances at Synopsys.
The Cyclone II device family is supported by the Cadence NC-Sim version 5.1; Mentor Graphics Precision RTL Synthesis version 2004a update 1 and ModelSim version 5.8c; Synopsys VCS version 7.1.1, Scirocco version 2002.06, and PrimeTime version 2003.03; and Synplicity Synplify and Synplify Pro version 7.6.1 software.
Quartus II version 4.1 design software is now available to all customers on active subscription.
The annual subscription for the Altera design software is $2000 for a node-locked PC licence, which includes full-featured Quartus II design software, OEM simulation tools from Mentor Graphics, and 12 months of software upgrades.
New or existing customers may obtain a software subscription at the Altera e-store on the Altera website or from Altera distributors worldwide.
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