Altera has announced that Ricoh Group has chosen Altera Cyclone IV FPGAs to power its recently introduced line of printers, the RICOH SP 3600DN Series. Altera’s Cyclone IV FPGAs power the image processing capability of the RICOH SP 3600 Series printers, helping implement features such as 1200dpi image quality improvements, serial print speeds, and fast print speed.

Altera has announced availability of the 2nd gen Nios II Embedded Evaluation Kit (NEEK), which features Altera’s non-volatile MAX 10 FPGA and Nios II soft-core embedded processor. The MAX 10 NEEK is a feature-rich platform that provides a fast and simple way for embedded designers to experience the capabilities of a custom embedded processor in a non-volatile FPGA.

Altera Corporation has joined the Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV), a community-led, industry-supported, open-source reference platform for Network Function Virtualisation (NFV). NPV uses IT virtualisation technologies to virtualise entire classes of network node functions into building blocks that may be connected, or chained, to create communication services.

  Based on the company's Arria 10 SoCs, a storage reference design that doubles the life of NAND flash has been introduced by Altera. It can also increase the number of programme-erase cycles by up to seven times compared to current NAND flash implementations.

  Altera has announced that its Arria 10 FPGAs have been chosen by Silkan, a provider of real-time data transmission, for its deterministic real-time high-speed Ethernet interconnection technology.

The architectural and product details of Altera's Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs, which deliver breakthrough levels of performance, integration, density and security, have been revealed. The high-end programmable logic devices leverage Altera’s revolutionary HyperFlex FPGA fabric architecture built on the Intel 14nm Tri-Gate process to provide twice the core performance compared to previous-gen FPGAs.

Altera has announced that its 28nm Cyclone V FPGAs have been chosen by Harris for its latest Falcon III wideband tactical radio. The radio, currently in production, has been designated by the U.S. NSA to be NSA Type-1 certified, enabling Harris to field the radio for secure voice and data communications.

Altera has announced the availability of the latest version of its Industrial Functional Safety Data package (Ver. 3) for systems designers using its FPGAs. The safety pack provides TÜV Rheinland-certified toolflows, IP and devices including Cyclone V FPGAs, enabling faster time-to-market for industrial safety solutions to IEC 61508 up to Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL3).

Altera has unveiled its Spectra-Q engine, a technology at the heart of the company’s Quartus II software, to accelerate design productivity and time-to-market for next-gen programmable devices. The Spectra-Q engine extends Altera’s Quartus II software leadership with added capabilities that deliver unprecedented compile time improvements, versatile and fast-tracked design entry, and drop-in IP integration.

Altera has joined the Industrial Internet Consortium, a collaborative industry organisation facilitating development of a global IoT ecosystem.  Altera is working alongside the consortium on technical roadmaps to build the Industrial Internet, a network of intelligent devices and sensors between which data can be exchanged via different connectivity protocols to drive productivity across a range of end-market applications.

At the 2015 National Association of Broadcasters convention (NAB), which takes place from 13th to 16th April at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Altera will demonstrate its Ultra HD (UHD) end-to-end solutions. Featured for the first time will be the company’s multichannel, real-time H.265 hardware codec delivering a high quality full HD experience by implementing the Altera H.265 IP on a single chip with unprecedented quality and efficiency...

An UBM-free WLCSP technology that provides enhanced quality, reliability and integration for Altera’s MAX 10 FPGA products has been developed by Altera and TSMC. This approach results in a thin package height of less than 0.5mm (including solder ball), which is suitable for applications where space is at a premium. 

  Based on Eutecus' MVE video and fusion analytics technology and Altera’s Cyclone V SoC and Enpirion PowerSoC devices, Altera and Eutecus announce the ReCo-Pro Multi-channel HD Video Analytics platform for intelligent lighting, traffic monitoring and building security.

In booth #413 at OFC 2015, March 24th to 26th In Los Angeles, Altera is demonstrating two products for optical transport networks designed with Arria 10 FPGAs: the Altera SoftSilicon 400G Transponder/Muxponder (TPO516) and the Altera SoftSilicon single-chip 20-channel any-rate mapper (TPOC226) with segmentation and reassembly.

The Avaya Scopia XT7100, a videoconferencing system developed by Avaya, utilises Altera’s H.265 video codec solution, which is capable of handling full duplex encoding and decoding on a single FPGA. Alongside managing 4K video, the codec enables multi-channel support for today’s 1080p60 resolutions on a single, low-power chip.

Altera is adding a 30A PowerSoC DC/DC step-down converter to its growing portfolio of Enpirion power solutions for FPGAs. The 30A EM1130 is the first in a family of integrated digital DC-DC step-down converters that will provide power management for Altera’s Generation 10 FPGAs, specifically for Arria 10 and Stratix 10 FPGA core and transceiver power supply rails.

  Altera and Escape Communications today announced the availability of a high-performance, cost-effective and scalable microwave modem solution that enables rapid system development and accelerates production shipments for microwave backhaul and fronthaul applications.

At the Mobile World Congress 2015, Altera and China Mobile have jointly demonstrated a Centralised/Coordinated/Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) platform targeting next-gen virtualised 5G wireless networks. This approach will dramatically improve the user experience at the edge of cells, achieving much higher channel capacity and spectrum efficiency, reduce the network power consumption and support flexible and agile network deployments.

Altera has announced its 2nd gen family of Arria 10 SoCs, the industry’s only programmable devices that combine ARM processors with a 20nm FPGA fabric. Arria 10 SoCs bring across-the-board improvements to enable higher performing, lower power, and more feature rich embedded systems compared to previous generation SoC FPGAs.

  Microsoft is using Altera's Arria 10 FPGAs, to achieve compelling performance-per-Watt in data centre acceleration based on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) algorithms, which are frequently used for image classification, image recognition and natural language processing.