Editing Altera (section)

==Products==
===FPGAs===
[[File:Mainboard-fb4ceiling (14309408349) Cyclone III (cropped).jpg|thumb|Cyclone III FPGA]]
[[File:Embedded World 2016, Altera Cyclone-V SE (02).jpg|thumb|FPGA Developer-board with Altera Cyclone V SE FPGA]]
[[File:Altera MAX II die shot - etched - stitched (33460784978).jpg|thumb|[[Die shot]] of an Altera Max II FPGA]]

The main product lines from Altera are the [[Agilex]] FPGA product lines, and their predecessors: the high-end [[Stratix]] series, mid-range Arria series,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/programmable/us/en/pdfs/literature/hb/arria-10/arria_10_aib.pdf | title=Arria 10 Device Overview | publisher=[[Intel]] | date=September 4, 2013}}</ref> and lower-cost Cyclone series; as well as the MAX series non-volatile FPGAs.

=== Semiconductor intellectual property cores ===
Altera and its partners offer an array of [[semiconductor intellectual property core]]s that serve as building blocks that design engineers can drop into their system designs to perform specific functions. IP cores eliminate some of the time-consuming tasks of creating every block in a design from scratch. In 2000, Altera acquired Designpro and Northwest Logic, providers of IP cores, in order to expand its design capabilities and move towards delivery of complete system-on-chip solutions.<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 12, 2000 |title=Altera Buys System Design Firm |url=https://www.eetimes.com/altera-buys-system-design-firm/ |work=[[EE Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=May 2, 2000 |title=Altera Acquires Designpro |url=https://www.eetimes.com/altera-acquires-designpro/ |work=[[EE Times]]}}</ref>

=== System on a chip FPGAs ===
Beginning in December 2012, the company announced the shipment of its first [[system on a chip]] FPGA devices using a fully depleted [[silicon on insulator]] (FDSOI) 28&nbsp;nm chip manufacturing process. These are the Cyclone V SoC devices, which have a dual-core [[ARM architecture]] Cortex-A9 processor system with FPGA logic on a single chip.<ref>{{cite news |first=Toni |last=McConnel |work=Embedded |url=https://www.embedded.com/altera-ships-its-first-cyclone-v-soc-devices/ |title=Altera ships its first Cyclone V SoC devices |date=December 12, 2012}}</ref> These devices integrated FPGAs with full hard processor systems based around [[ARM architecture]] onto a single device.<ref>{{cite news | first=Clive |last=Maxfield |url=https://www.eetimes.com/alteras-shipping-its-first-soc-fpgas/ |title=Altera's shipping its first SoC FPGAs |work=[[EE Times]] |date= December 12, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Peter |last=Clarke |url=https://www.eetimes.com/altera-eyes-fdsoi-process-for-fpgas/ |title=Altera eyes FDSOI process for FPGAs |work=[[EE Times]] |date=December 15, 2012}}</ref> As of 2024, the majority of Altera's FPGA devices are available as an SoC variant with an ARM hard processor system integrated with the FPGA as a single system on a chip.

These SoCs are targeted for use in wireless communications, industrial, video surveillance, automotive and medical equipment markets. With these SoCs devices, users were able to create custom field-programmable SoC variants for power, board space, performance and cost optimization.<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://www.arm.com/company/news/2012/12/altera-and-arm-announce-industrys-first-fpga-adaptive-embedded-software-toolkit |title=Altera and ARM Announce Industry's First FPGA-Adaptive Embedded Software Toolkit |publisher=[[Arm Holdings]] |date=December 12, 2012}}</ref>

Cyclone V SoC, Arria V SoC and Arria 10 SoC product families are system on a chip FPGAs based upon a hard [[ARM Cortex-A9]] dual-core processor system.

Stratix 10 SoC and Agilex 7 SoC product families are system on a chip FPGAs based upon a hard [[ARM Cortex-A53]] quad-core processor system.

The Agilex 5 SoC product family are system on a chip FPGAs based upon a hard [[ARM Cortex-A76]]/[[ARM Cortex-A55|A55]] quad-core processor system.

===Soft Processor cores===
Altera offers the [[Nios V]] embedded soft processor cores based on the [[RISC-V]] instruction set architecture. Previously Altera had offered their own proprietary [[Nios II]] embedded soft processor, the Freescale [[ColdFire]] v1 core, and the [[ARM Cortex-M1]] processor.

===Design software===
{{main|Quartus Prime}}

All of Altera's devices are supported by a common design environment, the [[Quartus Prime]] design software, which is a multi-platform development environment that includes various tools needed to design FPGAs, SoC FPGAs, and CPLDs.<ref>{{cite news | first=Clive | last=Maxfield | url=https://www.eetimes.com/alteras-quartus-ii-design-software-features-qsys-system-integration-tool/ | title=Altera's Quartus Prime design software features Qsys System Integration Tool | work=[[EETimes]] | date=May 9, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | first=Clive  | last=Maxfield | url=https://www.eetimes.com/latest-and-greatest-quartus-ii-design-software-from-altera/ | title=Latest and greatest Quartus II design software from Altera | work=[[EETimes]] | date=November 7, 2011}}</ref>

In May 2013, Altera made available SDK for OpenCL, enabling software programmers to access the high-performance capabilities of programmable logic devices.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.eetimes.com/altera-opens-the-fpga-world-to-software-programmers/ |title=Altera opens the FPGA world to software programmers |first=Clive |last=Maxfield |work=[[EE Times]] |date=May 6, 2013}}</ref>

Altera also support high-level synthesis using [[SYCL]] extensions to ANSI C/C++.