Altera Corporation is a Silicon Valley manufacturer of PLDs . The company offered its first programmable logic device in 1984. PLDs can be reprogrammed during the design cycle as well as in the field to perform multiple functions, and they support a fairly fast design process. Altera's main products are the Cyclone, Arria GX and Stratix series of FPGAs , the MAX series of CPLDs , the HardCopy series of ASICs and Quartus II design software. The Stratix series FPGAs are the company's largest, highest bandwidth devices, with up to 1.1 million logic elements, integrated transceivers at up to 28... Gbit/s, up to 1.6 Tbit/s of serial switching capability, up to 1,840 GMACs of signal-processing performance, and up to 7 x72 DDR3 memory interfaces at 800 MHz. Cyclone series FPGAs and SoC FPGAs are the company's lowest cost, lowest power FPGAs, with variants offering integrated transceivers up to 5 Gbit/s.
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| NASDAQ symbol: | ALTR |
| Founded: | 1983 |
| Headquarters: | San Jose, California |
| Annual revenue: | $1,367,220,000 |
| Net income: | $359,650,000 |
| Operating income: | $330,800,000 |
| Market cap: | $6,700,000,000 |
| Employees: | 2,760 |
| Industries: | Semiconductor Manufacture |