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News Release from: Altera Europe
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 24 November 2006
FPGAs to don military uniforms
Partnership will enable military and aerospace customers to access a broad variety of packaging options for FPGAs that meet the rigorous requirements of defence applications.
Altera and White Electronic Designs Corp have announced a partnership that will give military and aerospace customers access to a broad variety of packaging options for FPGAs that meet the rigorous requirements of defence applications This is the first co-operative packaging agreement of its kind in the programmable logic industry
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 24 Dec 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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White Electronic Designs Corporation will package Altera FPGA die in packaging types that will include small form-factor monolithic plastic and ceramic, chip-onboard, multichip modules, stack and system-in-a-package (SiP).
The packaging options will support Altera's 90nm Stratix II and Cyclone II FPGA families.
Support for Altera's next-generation, 65nm FPGAs is also planned.
WEDC's secure facilities and technologies for defence-related programs will ensure the security of customers' designs when they send their die for packaging.
"This relationship further demonstrates Altera's commitment to defence electronics OEMs", said Jack Bogdanski, Director of Marketing for Defence Microelectronics Products at White Electronic Designs Corporation.
"It brings FPGA capabilities to military systems designers in smaller form-factor packaging for applications requiring greater density and design flexibility than standard packaging allows".
The relationship with WEDC is an important component of Altera's commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) strategy.
Altera goes beyond normal COTS requirements when addressing the unique needs of the military and aerospace market.
This approach to the military/aerospace market includes providing devices that support a wide range of temperature gradients, bare die business support, long-term obsolescence protection and a consistent supply chain.
"Altera's relationship with White Electronic Designs expands our range of packaging options well beyond the competition's and is a further demonstration of our enhanced COTS initiative", said Don Faria, Senior Vice President of Altera's Business Groups.
"Offering small form-factor monolithic packaging more effectively aligns us with the needs of our military and aerospace customers".
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