Siemens Medical Systems, Inc.
"Our transition to the APEX™ 20KE family gave us a substantial boost in the performance of our maximum frequency. We saw performance increase by better than 20 percent when we switched to the APEX 20KE devices. This latest release of Quartus® software, version 2000.09, delivered another 20 to 40 percent boost in maximum frequency on my design. An unexpected bonus, though, was compile times, which actually dropped by a factor of 2.5, allowing for faster design iterations."
Steve Marquis
Senior Staff Engineer
Silicon Light Machines
"APEX 20K devices provide us with a programmable system integration solution at a performance level that is unmatched by any other PLD supplier. The flexibility of the APEX 20K MultiCore™ architecture, which integrates the functionality of look-up table logic, product-term logic and memory, enables us to meet our high bandwidth HDTV requirements on a single device."
Joe Berger
Vice President of Engineering
Diamond Lane Communications/Nokia
"Next-generation products from Diamond Lane Communications (now Nokia High Speed Access) will make good use of emerging I/O standards such as LVDS. We appreciate seeing these standards incorporated in Altera's new products. Having programmable logic devices with these new I/Os built in will really help our migration to systems based on these new I/O standards."
James Martin
Director of Hardware Engineering
VMLabs
"Altera's APEX 20K family coupled with Quartus software can greatly improve our design and verification methods. SignalTap® logic analysis allows us to verify device functionality on large system-sized designs in real time and to capture and analyze any internal signal in Altera's APEX 20K PLD family, thus reducing the need for time-consuming board level debug."
Richard Miller
Chief Executive Officer
