Motorola
"I have been a long time Xilinx user, but I began using Altera Cyclone™ FPGAs and Quartus® II software for my Keystone project developing a high-definition video decoder for commercial broadcast applications. I am particularly impressed with how well the entire Quartus II package, including Verilog synthesis, ModelSim verification, and compilation, runs on a low-end PC. Quartus II also allows me to easily combine schematics, hardware description language (HDL), and Megafunctions in a single hierarchical design, which I can’t do in Xilinx tools. The quality of synthesis results from Quartus II is also quite high, rivaling the results I have seen from synthesis tools I have used. Even though the Quartus II development tool is very simple to use, I would strongly recommend it for both advanced and beginning designers. Altera's Quartus II software is such a superior development environment that I am quickly forgetting about any other PLD design tool."
Can Nguyen
Principal Staff Engineer
Broadband Communications Sector
Intrinsix
「私は過去 10 年間、FPGA のデザインを行っています。Actel Designer Series、Synario、Xilinx ISE、Synplicity Amplify & Synplify_Pro、Synopsys FPGA Compiler、Leonardo Spectrum™ ツールなどの多数のツールと共に、アルテラの MAX+PLUS® II ソフトウェアを使用してきました。私は、Quartus II ソフトウェアの使い勝手の良さ、スピード、得られる結果の卓越した品質に強い感銘を受け、私の最初の Stratix 高性能デザインを素早く機能させることができました。Quartus II ソフトウェアと Stratix® FPGA は、手頃な価格、高性能、および迅速な「time-to-market」ソリューションを実現する優れた組み合わせです。Quartus II ソフトウェアは、すべての競合製品よりもデザイン環境の統合化（例えば、合成、シミュレーション、ロジック・アナライザ、および配置配線）に優れています。Quartus II フロア・プランナは、入力ピンと接続されているすべてのロジックの信号を簡単にトレースできる点で卓越した性能を持っています。統合化された SignalTap® II ロジック・アナライザは簡単に使用でき、Xilinx ISE のようにサードパーティ製ツールを購入する必要はありません。Quartus II ツールの統合化された機能と使いやすさは、すべての競合製品を圧倒しています。」
Alfredo Mendez
Principal Consultan
Vytek
「私は 1993 年以来、MAX+PLUS II ソフトウェアを使用しており、アルテラの CPLD および FPGA によって 40 以上のデザインを完成させました。アルテラの CPLD は、プロセッサ用のグルー・ロジックおよびダイナミック・ランダム・アクセス・メモリ (DRAM) コントローラを設計するのに非常に便利でした。また、FPGA の残りの部分を使用して、グラフィック・コントローラを CPU にインタフェースするための PCI（Peripheral Component Interconnect）バスの必要な部分を実装しました。これにより、デザインから PCI ブリッジ・チップをなくすことができました。高速カメラからの画像のリアルタイム画像修正を行って大規模なデザインを実装したこともあります。このデザインには、システムの速度要求を満たすために、10 個を超える CPLD および FPGA を使用する必要がありました。 MAX+PLUS II ソフトウェアから Quartus II ソフトウェアへの切り替えは非常に簡単でした。今では、新しいアルテラ・デザインにはすべて Quartus II ソフトウェアを使用しています。Quartus II ソフトウェア・アップデートは非常に便利で、トラブルとは無縁でした。また、デザインを完成させるために古いバージョンに戻る必要は一度もありませんでした。Quartus II ソフトウェアに移行した主な理由の 1 つは、タイミング・クロージャを提供する卓越した能力があり、それは最も困難といえるプロジェクトには不可欠のものでした。私は何度か、アルテラの CPLD または FPGA 内のロジック・リソースを 100% 使用したことがありますが、それでも速度要求は満たされました。Xilinx など他の PLD ベンダのツールを使用した経験もありますが、最も使いやすいのは Quartus II ソフトウェアでした。」
Bill Swanson
Principal Engineer
Tektronix
"We’ve used Altera's Quartus II software to help develop a Stratix FPGA-based design for the WVR7100 Digital and Composite Waveform Rasterizer, a product that requires high performance for the confidence monitoring of high-definition, standard-definition, and composite video signals. The LogicLock™ tool in Quartus II enabled us to achieve an internal clock rate of over 125MHz in a large and complicated Stratix design using the slowest speed grade device. LogicLock is the most powerful and easy-to-use fitting and timing closure tool I’ve seen for programmable logic design."
Ken Ivers
Principal Engineer
Harman Music Group
"The Quartus development tool II is the most advanced PLD design software I have used, and it is years ahead of the competition. I have been using programmable logic since the early days of Palasm, and have since used both Altera's MAX+Plus II software and Xilinx tools to develop PLDs for professional audio equipment. Most recently I have designed several large Xilinx FPGAs, but for my next project, I am happily returning to Altera's tools. Quartus II software offers much better ease-of-use, and a terrific development environment for the Nios embedded processor."
Carlos Morales
Hardware Designer
STS Technologies
「アルテラの Quartus II ソフトウェアは、インストール、ライセンス取得、そして起動が即座に完了します。瞬時に使用できるQuartus II と違って、Xilinx ISE はインストールも動作も遅い。」
Scott Chaney
President
Honeywell International
"The LogicLock feature in the Quartus II software makes it easier to achieve your required performance. In my latest design, I was able to lock in critical timing areas early in development, allowing me to proceed with confidence knowing that I would meet speed requirements in the final design."
Stan Hodge
Senior Design Engineer
Moving Pixel
"I have used devices from both Altera and Xilinx, and Altera's Quartus II is the most complete and well-integrated tool for developing programmable logic designs I have ever experienced. Its powerful integrated synthesis feature is a great asset in getting designs done quickly and efficiently. I have most recently used Quartus II to develop Stratix II and Cyclone designs for the High Dynamic Range (HDR) display. Stratix II FPGAs deliver the high-performance digital signal processing functions needed to produce the most crisp and detailed visuals, and Cyclone series FPGAs provide the lowest cost, broadening the appeal of this leading-edge display technology."
Scott Silver
Principal Engineer
Covaro Networks, Inc.
"I have used Lattice tools with their ispMACH 4000 parts, but I found the Quartus II software and Cyclone FPGAs to be a better combination. Using Quartus II software with Cyclone FPGAs provides more speed, more logic and memory resources, and a very quick and easily learned design flow. The Quartus II software is especially good at making that device speed achievable with minimal effort. I recently converted a Lattice design to an Altera Cyclone FPGA with the Quartus II software, and after only a few mouse clicks, I had nearly doubled my speed compared to the Lattice device while achieving a nearly 2x cost reduction."
Matt Vea
Hardware Engineer
Talia Sound & Vision
"With historical experience with a range of FPGA products, we have been impressed by the quality and functionality of the Altera tools and FPGAs, overcoming many of the frustrations experienced with other products. Currently we are designing a range of standard definition (SD) and high-definition television (HDTV) video processing products for the broadcast industry. After careful consideration of the competition, we found both the Stratix and Cyclone™ FPGAs, both based on a 0.13-micron, all-copper process parts, to be the only product capable of sustaining the high speeds that our designs require.
We found the Quartus II software to be simpler, more powerful, easier, and faster than other FPGA tools—an advantage in helping us bring our products to market more quickly. The Quartus II software's fully integrated design approach is intuitive. The MegaWizard® plug-ins integrated into the Quartus II software are excellent, making it very easy to add FPGA-specific blocks such as phase-locked loops (PLLs), digital signal processors, and memory to my designs in no time at all.
As the size and complexity of the design increase, the maximum speed of the Altera products remains consistent with the stated specifications, unlike some other FPGAs we have tested. In fact, the Stratix multiplier specification of 250 MHz has been proven and exceeded, when we managed to push an 18 x 18 multiplier past the 300 MHz mark. We have had trouble breaking the 100-MHz barrier in other FPGAs. We greatly appreciate the accuracy of Altera's data sheets and the performance of their FPGAs."
Joe Talia
President
Lumagen
「当社はXilinxユーザーでしたが、最近のホーム・シアター・プロセッサ製品では、価格、性能面で明らかに優位性を持つアルテラのCyclone FPGA製品を採用しています。また、アルテラのQuartus II がXilinxツールと比べてより優れたVerilog開発フローを提供していることを痛感しました。さらに、当社デザインへの制約を適用するにあたり、Quartus II は非常に操作性に優れています。」
Patrick Harkin
Vice President of Development
Alesis
"I first used Altera FPGAs for the design of Alesis' HD24 multi-track digital audio hard disk recorder. The Altera solution had the right combination of price, performance, logic density, and I/O to allow us to achieve the feature set we needed at the lowest price point in the industry for the product category. Since then, we have expanded our use of Altera devices into our Ion and Micron audio synthesizers.
In our most recent project, we required even more speed, density, and I/O, and Cyclone devices have been the perfect fit. I am very impressed by the flexibility of Cyclone devices, particularly with the ability to assign current drive strengths on a per-pin basis and support for different I/O standards, which is immensely valuable in providing the kind of system integration we expect from an FPGA.
Additionally, the Quartus II software offers great advances over MAX+Plus II software in terms of quality of results and timing closure features. The Quartus II software updates have steadily improved the quality of the tools, shortening compile times and helping me to get the most out of our chosen Altera devices. In particular, both the simulation and timing closure features in the Quartus II software have helped me to reduce design time while increasing my confidence in the design performance."
Robert F. Schmanski
Design Engineer
Parthus Ceva
"I have used various FPGA devices over many years, including offerings from Lattice and Xilinx, but the Altera Cyclone family has superior performance and an excellent price position which made my last project the easiest and most successful yet. The Quartus II development tool's ease of installation, stability, and functionality made the implementation of my Cyclone project fast and painless. Altera's Cyclone devices and Quartus II tools are such an unbeatable combination that my last project beat both its time-to-market and budgetary targets by over 30 percent. The continual advances made in the Quartus II software mean that my future designs can always remain on the leading edge. The ability to mix design input methods and the unsurpassed compilation speed means that both the front-end preparation and back-end processing outperforms even the latest offerings from Xilinx. The lifeblood of this company is the creation of Intellectual Property (IP) and its implementation in digital signal processing (DSP) cores. Without the power and flexibility of the Altera offerings, we could not have succeeded in the creation and proving of our Bluetooth, 802.11, and GPS product offerings. There simply is no better toolset or silicon solution than Altera's offering for my increasingly complex and time-critical designs."
Martin Hall
Senior Hardware Engineer
Doremi Labs
｢Doremi では、広帯域幅ビデオ製品の実装でアルテラ FPGAに大きく依存しています。かねてよりサードパーティの合成ツールを使用してきましたが、Quartus II バージョン 2.0 を採用して以来、ビルトイン Quartus シンセサイザを活用して大きな成果をあげています。また、100K ゲートを超える設計では LogicLock 機能も活用しています。 LogicLock では、設計、デバッグ、タイミング調整、および主要なデザイン・ブロックのロック・ダウンが可能であるため、以降のコンパイル時間が短縮されデザイン・ブロック間の干渉が軽減されました。｣
Camille Rizko
Technical Director
Sigma Instruments
“I have used programmable logic for many years to develop products for measurement and control of vacuum processes, such as film deposition and monitoring. In the past, I used the MAX+Plus and MAX+Plus II software, but today I rely strictly on the Quartus II software for all of my development. One of the great advantages of moving from MAX+Plus II software to Quartus II software is the improved synthesis and resource utilization efficiency we see in Altera’s latest development software. We had used third-party synthesis tools in the past, but the great results we get with the Quartus II software have caused us to drop them. Also, the compilation speeds are very good—with the Quartus II software, I can compile a 3,000 logic cell Cyclone design in less than four minutes using a $400 PC. I have used Cyclone FPGAs and the Nios processor in several of my projects, most recently with our EM-100D Optical Emission Monitor. The combination of Altera FPGAs, the Nios processor, and the Quartus II tools allows me to easily achieve unprecedented levels of integration in our products.”
George Diehl
Engineering Manager
Acorn Packet Solutions
"I have used both Xilinx and Altera products during my 20 years as a communications system designer. I used to be a fervent Xilinx supporter, but once I started using Altera products, I have used them exclusively and not looked back. In my current work on IP network connection and monitoring products, the combination of Altera's software tools and devices have consistently given me superb performance and results. The capabilities of the Quartus II software are a distinguishing factor. For example, Altera integrates high-quality HDL synthesis into the Quartus II software that delivers very efficient utilization. Also, the amount and organization of compilation results are excellent; resource utilization is right there, so you can easily see where improvements can be made. The integration between report messages, source files, and the floorplanner is second to none, making problem resolution very quick. Constraints are easy to add, and also to fix when they are not met. Finally, the help menus are the most complete of any product I have ever used. It is amazing to me that Altera gives all of this away free in their Quartus II Web Edition software."
Mike Skerrit
CTO & Founder
SKB Prominform
“My firm has over 10 years of experience in the development of wireline telephony products. For most of that time, we were exclusively Xilinx customers, but recently we decided to try Altera’s products in our new Universal Digital Platform product. We used the Web Edition of Quartus II software to develop MAX CPLD designs and found it much more intuitive and easy to use than Xilinx ISE tools. The Quartus II software is a very well thought-out development environment, so much so that we practically did not have to refer to the user’s guide to use it. Based on our positive experience and the better value that Altera devices deliver, we will be using Altera for our projects going forward.”
Golovatenko Andrey
Senior Engineer
Escape Communications
"At Escape, we've been using the Quartus II software and Cyclone FPGAs to build leading-edge signal processing products at ASIC-killer prices. The Quartus II software is a well-integrated tool that yields impressive synthesis results, and the floor-planning and place-and-route tools consistently allow us to reach greater-than-90 percent utilization while meeting challenging timing constraints. We have come to rely on the detailed Resource Usage Summary in the Quartus II software to rapidly identify portions of our designs requiring further attention. While the Quartus II software makes this critical information easily available with a single step, other programmable logic tools require multiple compilation iterations to extract it. The Quartus II software is superior compared to other programmable logic tool offerings and allows us to focus our time on meeting customer needs, rather than laboring over tool usage."
Dr. Greg Caso
Vice President, Engineering
CalAmp
"I have been a long-time user of Altera products for many different applications. Using Altera's tools, like the Quartus II software, is a snap, and when a design works okay in simulation, I know that the Altera device will work, too.
Unfortunately, I have also had to work with Xilinx tools and devices. We have had trouble reaching our performance targets with Xilinx devices because of the confusing way they specify their devices. I find Xilinx especially hard to work with because of the poor performance of the tools. After recently going through the trouble of updating to the latest Xilinx tools with installations and multiple reboots, I found that I had lost some capabilities that I had before. Xilinx tech support was absolutely no help whatsoever. Altera updates and support are much better by comparison.
One of my more challenging designs required some fairly hefty formatting and encoding for custom serial data channels for magnetic recording, and as usual, the Altera tools worked well and the design worked right away as expected. Many of our designs are portable, so they require low power consumption, and I look forward to using MAX II CPLDs to better address that need."
Robyn Baur
Senior Hardware Engineer
Ulyssix Technologies
"I have been designing FPGAs and ASICs since 1989, with experience using products from several programmable logic vendors. In 1999, I was tasked to move my DSP intellectual properties from standard cell ASICs to FPGAs and I chose Altera as the superior solution because of their parallel-processing speed capability and the ease with which I could implement mathematical algorithms (i.e., parallel multipliers and dividers) using the MegaWizard plug-ins within their development environment. Based on the capabilities of the Altera product families and the support I received from them, I decided to start my own company focused on providing DSP-oriented telemetry products.
I am currently using the Quartus II software and DSP Builder tool with Stratix devices to take my company to the next level of capability. The Quartus II software provides much better synthesis and place-and-route capabilities than the MAX+PLUS II software, and their DSP Builder tool is a very solid and capable tool for quickly implementing DSP functions. Further, the SignalTap® function in the Quartus II software is "magic" for allowing me to do an unprecedented amount of in-circuit debugging of my circuit designs. These design environment advances combined with the innovative DSP blocks in the Stratix family have taken Ulyssix’s designs to a much higher level than its competition, which is using mixed analog/digital solutions.
I have now completed three different telemetry application products within six months using the combination of MATLAB, the DSP Builder tool, and Quartus II software, using the same PC board. The ability to reconfigure the same PC board for very different applications is enabling Ulyssix Technologies, Inc. to become a leader in PCI solutions for the telemetry marketplace."
Glenn Rosenthal
President
Wytron
"I have been using programmable logic since the early days of Palasm, and have since used tools from both Altera and Xilinx. Altera’s Quartus II software is the most advanced PLD design software I have ever used, and it is years ahead of the competition. The Quartus II software offers much better ease-of-use and a terrific development environment for the Nios processor in the form of the SOPC Builder tool. We have relied on Quartus II software to develop Cyclone device designs for our DVD-199V duplicator product, and we plan to continue to use Altera solutions, including the Nios II processor, for our future products as well.”
Thomas Chou
General Manager
Electronics Consulting Services
“I have used Altera and Xilinx to develop many types of designs, including a digital video recorder, a point-to-point microwave modem, and an National Television System Committee (NTSC) video signal manipulator. Current FPGA-based projects include a toy with audio/video recognition capability, and a wireless video surveillance product. In my last project I used Xilinx FPGAs, but for my new projects I am returning to Altera because only they enable me to seamlessly transition from programmable logic to low-cost structured ASICs with minimal risk. Achieving the lowest cost is important to my customers, many of whom are consumer product manufacturers, and Altera’s Stratix FPGAs and HardCopy® structured ASICs enable me to reach that goal. In addition, Altera’s Quartus II software offers the LogicLock feature and the SignalTap II logic analyzer, which are much better timing closure and verification tools than what is available from Xilinx. Finally, Altera's customer support is superior to Xilinx's, and makes working with Altera's products a more pleasant experience.”
Richard Ivy
Consulting Engineer
PnP3 Electronics
“Over the past seven years, I have designed more than 30 CPLD and FPGA applications, ranging from the complex (radar simulation equipment and Internet video cameras) to simple (stepper motor control and CPU glue logic) using both Altera and Xilinx products. When I have the choice, I always use Altera simply because the Quartus II software is the best PLD development tool. With its fully integrated environment, including simulation, Altera’s Quartus II IDE gets me from concept to prototype faster than any other software available. In one particular application where I was designing a real-time geometric calculator, I was fumbling around for four or five days trying to figure out why the hardware wasn’t working properly. I decided to try the SignalTap logic analyzer tool in the Quartus II software, and in just a few hours, I tracked down the problem, fixed the code, did a recompile, reprogrammed the device, and it worked perfectly. Xilinx tools have never performed as well as that for me, and it was that moment when I decided that Quartus II software was the way to go.”
Kris Sielski
Design Engineer
Penguin Telecom
｢Joint Tactical Radio System Cluster 5 向けの Cyclone シリーズ・デザイン開発に Quartus II デザイン・ソフトウェアを使用しました。Quartus II デザイン・ソフトウェアでは、他の PLD ツールよりも迅速に設計を立ち上げることができます。また、デザイン・アシスタントが開発フローの早期段階でエラーを検出します。これらのエラーをシミュレーション段階で解決するには時間がかかるため、早期エラー検出により開発サイクルを短縮することが可能です。また、デザイン・スペース・エクスプローラも他の競合ツールより優れており、短期間で性能目標を達成することができます。私が現在取り組んでいるワイヤレス・ハンドヘルド・デザインは、スペースの制約が非常に厳しく、従来の外部プローブ・デバッグ手法を利用する余裕はありません。Quartus II デザイン・ソフトウェアの SignalTap II エンベデッド・ロジック・アナライザはこの問題を解決し、フル・スピードで動作する FPGA の内部信号を調査する機能をもたらします。｣
Brian D. Carlton
President
EZAN RAS
“I have used PLDs from Altera and Xilinx. I have found Altera’s Quartus II software to be much easier to learn and use than Xilinx’s tools. The Quartus II software also enables faster design development than Xilinx ISE. The LogicLock feature, the floorplanner, and the verification tools in the Quartus II software are especially important in shortening our development time. For our ENE-04 Multiplexer, designed for use with synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) equipment for optical networks, we chose Cyclone FPGAs and the Nios II processor. We had past experience using Xilinx Spartan devices and their Microblaze processor, but the Nios II product is a much better processor, and our development went very smoothly and quickly as a result. Altera provides us with excellent tools, high-value devices, and a superior embedded processor offering, and I simply do not see the necessity to use products from any other programmable logic vendor.”
Pavel Lugovskoy
Development Group Head
Quintessence Technologies Corporation
「私は、他のプログラマブル・ロジックや EDA ツールと比較して Quartus II ソフトウェアが使いやすいと強く感じています。 Quartus II ソフトウェアは、特にシミュレーション、ノード検出、およびピンアサインメントの領域では、MAX+PLUS II より信頼性が高く、使いやすくなっています。また、グラフィック・スティミュラス・クリエイタは、サードパーティの類似ツールよりかなり高速で効率的です。デザインの変換が非常に簡単だったので、非常に短い時間でターゲット・デバイスに適合させることができました。最後に、Quartus II のユーザ・ガイドは構成が優れており、質問への回答が簡単に見つかります。」
Hussein Moradi
President
Odyssey Technologies
「私が最初にアルテラの FPGA に切り替えたのは、アルテラが RAM のエンベデッド・ブロックを実装した最初のプログラマブル・ロジック・サプライヤだったからです。それ以来、アルテラは私のデザインに必要な FPGA 機能を常に最初に提供しています。アルテラは最先端の FPGA 機能を提供するだけでなく、開発ツールでも最先端を走っています。その結果、Quartus II ソフトウェアは世界で最も強力な使いやすい開発ソフトウェアとなっています。例えば、Quartus II ソフトウェアでは、MegaWizard® Plug-In を提供し、Verilog または VHDL での RAM モデルがインスタンス化しやすくなっていますが、これは、Quartus II ソフトウェアを Xilinx の ISE 6 ソフトウェアより優位に立たせる、さまざまな使いやすさの特長のうちの 1 つに過ぎません。 Odyssey では、最先端の洗練された通信システムの設計・開発を専門としており、「time-to-market」が常に重要であることから、アルテラの FPGA と Quartus II ソフトウェアを使用しています。」
Perry J. Brown
President
CalAmp
"I have been using MAX+Plus II software since 1993 and have completed over 40 designs with Altera CPLDs and FPGAs. I have found Altera CPLDs very useful to design glue logic and DRAM controllers for processors. Once a leftover portion of an FPGA was used to implement the needed parts of a PCI bus to interface a graphic controller to a CPU. This allowed the PCI bridge chip to be removed from the design. I have implemented large designs doing real-time image corrections of images from high-speed cameras. The design required using over 10 CPLDs and FPGAs to meet the speed requirements of the system. I found it very easy to switch from MAX+Plus II software to Quartus II software, which I now use for all of my new Altera designs.
The Quartus II software updates have been very useful and trouble-free, and I have never had to revert to an older version to finish a design. One of the main reasons I moved to the Quartus II software is its superior ability to deliver timing closure—it has been indispensable for my most difficult projects. On several occasions, I have used 100 percent of the logic resources in an Altera CPLD or FPGA and while still meeting my speed requirements. I have used tools from other PLD vendors, including Xilinx, but find Quartus II the easiest to use."
Bill Swanson
Principal Engineer
Measurements & Controls, Ltd.
"Currently, we are designing a range of telecom transmission products using Altera devices. The SOPC Builder feature is a great tool for integrating our intellectual property, the Nios processor, and other system blocks into Cyclone FPGAs, which are an excellent fit for our needs. Compared to other FPGA tools, the Quartus II software is simpler, much easier to use, and more powerful, which shortens our time-to-market. In particular, the SignalTap verification tool that is a part of the Quartus II software is excellent, making it easy to do real-time debugging of our FPGA designs."
Rajaram Menon
Deputy General Manager
Design Services
"Over the last decade, I have used PLD tools from Altera, AMD, and Lattice, and only Altera's Quartus II software has been able to truly help me troubleshoot a design. In a recent design for an analytical X-ray system for scientific equipment, the SignalTap II feature in the Quartus II software helped me quickly discover and resolve design problems that I couldn't uncover during simulation. The SignalTap feature is very easy to use and has the look and feel of a real logic analyzer. I will be hard-pressed to use any other design software unless it includes a similar feature."
Greg Wachter
Electronic Hardware Engineer
Ken Crocker Engineering
"The Quartus II software gives me the power to solve tough engineering problems quickly and efficiently. As a consultant, my customers depend on me to provide reliable, robust solutions every time. I have used Xilinx tools, but I feel that the results obtained using the Quartus II software are superior in nearly every regard, especially when achieving timing closure. I recommend Altera CPLDs and FPGAs along with the Quartus II tool set exclusively to my customers based on a successful track record of completing over 95 demanding designs on time, on quality, and on budget. Of those, at least 21 have been completed using the Quartus II software.
These designs have helped advance the state-of-the-art in such varied fields as medical and biometric systems, low-noise, high-frame-rate charge-coupled device (CCD) cameras, and professional video networking such as video on demand (VoD) and long-haul transport. One of my current designs uses a Cyclone device running a Nios processor to control a CCD sensor clocked at over 10,000 fps. The design uses LogicLock to implement silicon delay lines, which provide programmable sub-nanosecond clock edge adjustment. Another recent design uses the DSP blocks in a Stratix device to perform image analysis for an airborne object tracking system."
Ken Crocker
Principal Engineer & President
BlueArc Corporation
“Altera's FPGAs offer ASIC-like complexity and density and have enabled BlueArc to implement a groundbreaking file server architecture with world-leading performance. These advanced FPGAs require correspondingly advanced development tools. Altera's Quartus II software provides the right features to enable system designers to achieve ASIC development flow efficiency while benefiting from the flexibility of FPGAs. The tool command language (Tcl) interface that allows designers to integrate and control memory functions via scripting, unavailable in competitive programmable logic tools, is especially welcome."
Shmuel Shottan
Senior Vice President of Engineering
Motorola Global Telecom Solutions Sector
"The LogicLock feature in the Quartus II design software is a valuable tool for development of large-scale programmable logic designs. By using the LogicLock feature flow with our designs, we have been able to reduce compile times significantly as well as achieve our clock frequency performance targets."
George Powley
Principal Staff Engineer
Echotek
"In the past, we spent a great amount of time optimizing designs to meet our high performance requirements. With Quartus II software, we're easily meeting all of our timing requirements at the push of a button. The Quartus II software enables me to do in one week what it took two weeks to accomplish in the competitor's tool."
Ed Richardson
Design Engineer
Lowrance Electronics, Inc.
"The Quartus II software allows us to complete our FPGA designs in the shortest amount of time, which is key to getting our sonar, GPS, and mapping products to market quickly. Now that the Quartus II software supports Linux, we enjoy significant productivity gains resulting from the combination of the greatest ease-of-use and an extremely stable, low-cost development environment."
Jeff Hanoch
Principal Design Engineer
The Appcon Group
"I have found the Quartus II software to be extremely fast and reliable. In my recent projects, Quartus II has been able to deliver my targeted fMAX clock frequencies in even the most complex of designs in the largest devices. As a systems design consultant, I have to keep abreast of the latest offerings from all PLD vendors, and none of the other programmable logic vendors can come close to what Altera offers."
Mark Leveto
Principal Engineer
