Editing Altera (section)

=== 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.