Altera Corporation [ALTR]

Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) is a leading company in innovative custom logic solutions.It is headquartered in Silicon Valley and invented the world’s first reprogrammable logic device in 1984.ALTR has already developed into a company who has over 2,600 employees in 19 countries. Meanwhile, it is  providing even more ingenious custom logic solutions and addressing a range of concerns, from power consumption to performance to cost for customers in a wide variety of industries which includes automotive, broadcast, computer and storage, consumer, industrial, medical, military, test and measurement, wireless, and wireline.Besides, Altera’s product ranges also contain fully integrated software development tools, versatile embedded processors, optimized intellectual property (IP) cores, reference designs examples, and a variety of development kits,etc.

Actually, the products and services of ALTR can be divided into six series. The first series is devices such as Stratix® IV FPGAs, Stratix III FPGAs, Arria GX FPGAs, etc.The second series is Intellectual Property (IP) such as DSP IP, Communications IP,Nios II Embedded Processor ,etc. The third series is Dev. Kits & Programming Hardware such as Daughter Cards,Download Cables,Partner Development Kits,etc.The forth series is design sofrware such as DSP builder,Quartus® II Design Software,Quartus II Web Edition,tec. The fifth series is design services such as Certified Design Center Partners, Consultant Alliance Program Partners, etc.The sixth series is literature such as  Stratix IV Device Documentation,Stratix III Device Documentation,Cyclone III Device Documentation, etc.At the same time, ALTR also devoted itself to active innovation to develop new and advanced technology. It has occupies the technology such as digital signal processing, embedded processing,parallel I/O, system intergration, external memory interfacing, signal intergrity, etc.ALTR is also building the industry’s most advanced FPGA, CPLD, and ASIC technologies by working with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).