Leading EDA Vendors Support Altera's New Stratix GX Device Family
SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Leading EDA vendors
Mentor Graphics Corporation, Synopsys, Inc., and Synplicity, Inc. have
announced full support for Altera Corporation's (Nasdaq: ALTR) new Stratix(TM)
GX device family.
"Together with our EDA partners, Altera is able to provide a seamless
system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) design flow that maximizes performance of
the high-speed transceivers in our Stratix GX devices and allows designers to
focus on board-level issues rather than development tool interoperability,"
said Tim Southgate, Altera's vice president of software and tools marketing.
The new block-based design algorithms in the Quartus® II version 2.1 design
software, combined with advanced inference and optimization technology, allow
SOPC designers to easily utilize the 3.125 Gbps transceivers, DSP block,
TriMatrix(TM) Memory, and MultiTrack(TM) interconnect features of the Stratix
GX device family.
"Our industry-leading FPGA design solutions are tightly integrated with
Altera's Quartus II design flow, providing a comprehensive design and
verification platform for system-level engineers," said Simon Bloch, general
manager of the Mentor Graphics HDL and FPGA design division. "Through
Mentor's support for Altera's LogicLock(TM) design methodology, designers are
now able to integrate system-level building blocks, including multi-gigabit
transceivers available in Stratix GX devices, in an incremental manner without
compromising design performance."
OEM versions of the Mentor Graphics LeonardoSpectrum(TM) synthesis
software (version 2002e) and ModelSim (version 5.6a) simulation software are
included as part of the standard package in Altera's software subscription
program.
"Synopsys specializes in providing designers with an ASIC-like flow for
high-performance programmable logic devices (PLDs)," said Michael Jackson,
vice-president and general manager of FPGA Synthesis at Synopsys. "With the
increasing system-level functionality available in leading-edge FPGA devices
such as Stratix GX, our FPGA Compiler(TM) II is able to deliver Block-Level
Incremental Synthesis (BLIS) which automates the hierarchy management for
Altera's LogicLock(TM) design methodology and enables reduced design cycles
for our customers."
"We are pleased to provide our mutual customers with timely support for
Altera's new Stratix GX device family," said Jeff Garrison, director of FPGA
products at Synplicity. "We leveraged our extensive synthesis expertise in
mapping to complex programmable logic architectures in order to support these
devices. Besides supporting complex DSP and memory blocks in the Stratix GX
devices, our market-leading Synplify® and Synplify Pro® synthesis tools
provide a seamless flow for designs that instantiate the high-performance
gigabit transceivers in the RTL code, enabling our customers to obtain better
performance and area utilization for the Stratix GX devices."
Pricing and Availability
The Stratix GX device family is supported by Mentor Graphics
LeonardoSpectrum version 2002e and ModelSim version 5.6a, Synplicity Synplify
version 7.2, and Synopsys FPGA Compiler II version 3.8. Quartus II version
2.1 design software is now available to all customers on active subscription.
The annual subscription for the Altera design software is $2,000 for a
node-locked PC license, which includes full-featured Quartus II and
MAX+PLUS® II design software, OEM synthesis tools from Mentor Graphics, OEM
simulation tools from Model Technology, and 12 months of software upgrades.
New or existing customers may obtain a software subscription at the
Programmable eStore on the Altera web site, www.altera.com, or from Altera
distributors worldwide.
About Stratix GX FPGAs
The Stratix GX family is Altera's second-generation embedded transceiver
family based on a 0.13-um process technology with 1.5-V core voltage. Stratix
GX devices have up to 20 embedded 3.125-Gbps transceivers and up to 45
differential I/O pins with dedicated dynamic phase alignment (DPA) capability
supporting up to 1-Gbps source-synchronous data transfers. Stratix GX devices
also offer up to 41,250 logic elements (LEs), 3.27 Mbits of TriMatrix(TM)
memory, 14 DSP blocks, eight phase locked loops (PLLs), Terminator(TM)
technology for impedance matching and signal integrity and advanced I/O
buffers capable of interfacing with high-speed memory devices such as DDR
SDRAM, QDR SRAM, QDR II SRAM, ZBT SRAM, DDR FCRAM and SDR SRAM devices. More
technical information about the Stratix GX device family is available at
www.altera.com/stratixgx.
About Altera
Altera Corporation is the world's pioneer in system-on-a-programmable-chip
(SOPC) solutions. Combining programmable logic technology with software
tools, intellectual property, and technical services, Altera provides
high-value programmable solutions to approximately 14,000 customers worldwide.
More information is available at www.altera.com.
NOTE: 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. Arm
is a registered trademark of ARM Limited. LeonardoSpectrum is a trademark of
Mentor Graphics Corporation. Synplify and Synplify Pro are registered
trademarks of Synplicity, Inc. All other product or service names are the
property of their respective holders.
CONTACT: Ami Dorrell of Altera Corporation, +1-408-544-6397, or
newsroom@altera.com.
Source:
Altera Corporation