Enea Realtime Now an Altera Certified Design Center
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 5, 2001--To meet the
increasing demand for design services in communications applications,
Altera Corporation (Nasdaq:ALTR - news) today announced a partnership with
Enea Realtime. As the newest Altera Certified Design Center (CDC),
Stockholm's Enea Realtime will provide Altera customers with in-house
system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) design services that involve
intellectual property (IP) integration and Altera's Excalibur(TM)
embedded processor solutions.
"Altera is partnering with industry-leaders such as Enea Realtime
to provide customers with best of breed system-on-a-programmable-chip
(SOPC) design services," said Hugh Durdan, vice-president of Altera's
Technical Services Group. "Through this partnership our customers now
have access to Enea Realtime's design expertise in communications
applications, such as Bluetooth."
"Our expertise, in conjunction with Altera's Excalibur embedded
processor solutions, IP and software, allows us to provide for the
integration of an entire system-on-a programmable-chip solution
(SOPC)," said Erik Waesterberg, president of Enea Realtime. "SOPC
reduces time to market for our mutual customers, who will now get the
high quality of design services they are looking for. With OSE Systems
as a subsidiary of the Enea Group we can offer a complete SOPC
solution portfolio by including the OSE realtime operating system."
About the Certified Design Center (CDC) Program
As the migration of ASIC designs moves toward programmable logic,
Altera's CDC program brings world-class system-on-chip (SoC) designers
into the world of system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) applications.
The CDC program provides the thousands of Altera customers who are
looking to integrate Altera's new Excalibur embedded processor
solutions, IP, and their own customized logic into a single
programmable logic device. Access to the SoC design expertise often
required in today's most complex SOPC applications.
Enea Realtime
Enea's tradition of being a leader in realtime technology is
continued by Enea Realtime, which develops advanced systems for
telecom, medicine, industry and other integrated applications. The
systems include everything from user interfaces and complex system
interoperability to realtime kernels, frequently based on Enea's
realtime operating system OSE. For more information about Enea
Realtime, visit http://www.enea.se.
About Altera
Altera Corporation, The Programmable Solutions Company®, was
founded in 1983 and is a leading supplier of programmable logic
devices (PLDs). Altera's CMOS-based PLDs are user-programmable
semiconductor chips that enhance flexibility and reduce time-to-market
for companies in the communications, computer peripheral, and
industrial markets. By using high performance devices, software
development tools, and sophisticated intellectual property cores,
system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) solutions can be created with
embedded processors, memory, and other complex logic together on a
single PLD. Altera common stock is traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market
under the symbol ALTR. More information on Altera is available on the
Internet at http://www.altera.com.
Altera, The Programmable Solutions Company, the stylized Altera
logo, specific device designations and all other words that are
identified as trademarks and/or service marks are, unless noted
otherwise, the trademarks and service marks of Altera Corporation in
the U.S. and other countries. All other product or service names are
the property of their respective holders.
Contact:
Altera Corporation
Bruce Fienberg, 408/544-6866
bfienber@altera.com
