Altera FPGA & Semiconductors

• CPLDs
• Low-Cost FPGAs
• High-Density FPGAs
• Structured ASICs

• Lowest CPLD cost & power consumption
• Highest CPLD density & performance
• Instant-on, non-volatile
• User flash memory
• 1.8-V, 2.5-V & 3.3-V supply voltages

Altera’s 3.3-V MAX® 3000A devices are based on the Altera® MAX architecture and are cost-optimized for high-volume applications. Manufactured on an advanced 0.30-µm CMOS process, the electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM)-based MAX 3000A family provides instant-on capability and offers densities from 32 to 512 macrocells. MAX 3000A devices support in-system programmability (ISP) and can be easily reconfigured in the field. Each MAX 3000A macrocell is individually configurable for either sequential or combinatorial logic operation.

• Low to moderate density
• Instant-on, non-volatile
• 5-V I/O support
• Deterministic timing
• 2.5-V, 3.3-V or 5.0-V supply voltages

Applications

• Automotive
  
  With Altera’s automotive products, you can reduce system costs, improve reliability, and simplify design complexity to accelerate time to
• Broadcast
  
  Altera’s broadcast portfolio of products includes programmable devices with optimized broadcast-related intellectual property (IP) cores, powerful design software, and development kits.
• Computer & Storage
  
  Intel® FPGAs (formerly Altera® FPGAs) can be used to accelerate the performance of large-scale data systems.
• Consumer
  
  Using Altera’s low-cost FPGAs in your systems enables a fast, risk-free path to high volume and helps you handle nearly continuous change while still maintaining project deadlines.
• Embedded Vision
  
  The ability to incorporate high-definition (HD) video, image processing, and analytic tools has become an essential feature of embedded systems.
• Industrial
  
  Learn how FPGAs, such as Altera’s low-cost, low-power Cyclone® series, can help you address some of your toughest industrial application design challenges.
• Medical
  
  Altera provides a comprehensive product and tool portfolio to accelerate medical application development.
• Military / Aerospace / Government
  
  Intel FPGAs enable designers to meet the requirements of the aerospace and military markets by supplying enhanced off-the-shelf FPGAs.
• Test and Measurement
  
  Regardless of the end market, all products have to be tested before being shipping to the end-customer. Learn how Altera’s FPGAs can help.
• Wireless
  
  Altera provides a complete portfolio of high-performance, low-cost FPGAs delivering the processing bandwidth and flexibility for wireless applications.
• Wireline
  
  With a complete portfolio of high-performance, low-cost FPGAs and Altera’s programmable logic devices (PLDs) deliver the processing bandwidth and flexibility required for wireline infrastructure designs.

Altera introduces the CycloneT II FPGA family, the latest in the Cyclone series of low-cost FPGAs. Altera forever changed the FPGA industry with the introduction of the Cyclone device family in 2002-bringing to market the first and only FPGA family designed from the ground up for the lowest cost. Altera took the same approach and built the Cyclone II family with each member individually optimized for minimum die size. The Cyclone II FPGA family offers the same benefits as its predecessor-a customer-defined feature set, industry-leading performance, and low power consumption-but with much more density and features-at dramatically lower costs. Cyclone II devices extend the low-cost FPGA density range up to 68,416 logic elements (LEs) and up to 1.1 Mbits of embedded memory.

• Nios® II embedded processor support
• Embedded 18×18 digital signal processing (DSP) multipliers
• Moderate on-chip memory
• Moderate-speed I/O & memory interfaces
• Broad intellectual property (IP) portfolio support

Quartus® Prime Standard Edition Handbook Volume 1

Cyclone II Device Handbook

Cyclone IV FPGA Device Family Overview

V-Series Transceiver PHY IP Core User Guide

Introduction to the Altera Nios II Soft Processor

Introduction to the Quartus II Software

Altera’s CycloneT series of FPGAs provides the benefits of programmable logic at price points competitive with ASICs and ASSPs. Built from the ground up based on extensive input from hundreds of customers, these low-cost devices provide high-volume, application-focused features such as embedded memory, external memory interfaces, and clock management circuitry. Cyclone series FPGAs are the optimal solution for high-volume, price-sensitive applications that previously required the use of fixed solutions such as gate arrays and standard cells.

• Nios II embedded processor support
• Low to moderate on-chip memory
• Low to moderate-speed I/O & memory interfaces
• Broad IP portfolio support