Intel just acquired fellow chip maker Altera - plans to leverage its know-how for smarter chips
29 December, 2015
Intel just completed the biggest acquisition in its corporate history – a $16.7 billion deal to buy the US-based Altera. We doubt that the former requires any formal introduction, the latter, on the other hand is largely unknown in the end-user realm and understandably so, as it specializes in delivering programmable logic devices (PLDs) and mostly what is knowns as field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
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- 30 Dec 2015
I still remember using altera 13 years ago to design usb hub controller.
Their simulator was very accurate. On Pentium 3 with 128 MB RAM, the vhdl codes took 5 minutes to compile and 10 minutes to simulate then transfer the code to the altera board and press the start button to test. If things is not ok, adjust the code and redo the cycle.
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- 30 Dec 2015
Altera is a pretty popular chip supplier for test equipment (more specifically test boards or load boards) of semicon companies.
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- 29 Dec 2015
AnonD-416078, 29 Dec 2015Never heard of it beforeAltera FPGA kits is pretty popular in IT School, mainly because of its use as a basic (to advance) tools to understand how computer work. Not just theoretically, but also practically.
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- 29 Dec 2015
Never heard of it before