ALTERA

Altera Corporation is the world's pioneer of system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) solutions. Altera was founded in 1983 by Robert Hartmann, Michael Magranet, Paul Newhagen, and Jim Sansbury, visionaries who capitalized on the research of the day, stating that semiconductor customers would benefit from a user-programmable standard product alternative to gate arrays. To address these market needs, Altera's founders pioneered the first programmable logic device (PLD), the EP300, giving birth to an entirely new market segment in semiconductors. This new, flexible solution beat traditional standard products to market and launched Altera's reputation as a semiconductor innovation leader. Altera's portfolio of industry-leading FPGAs, structured ASICs, and CPLDs together with Altera's flexible digital signal processing and embedded processor solutions, deliver value to a much broader market than was previously addressed by programmable logic. These products are uniquely positioned to replace costly, high-risk solutions such as ASICs and ASSPs or simple discrete logic functions such as 74FCTxxx-series standard digital logic.