Fairlight
「Stratix® III ファミリは、完全機能を備える高性能FPGA の進むべき好例です。Stratix III アーキテクチャは、我々の業界で必要とされる高性能DSP処理に最適です。また、Stratix III ファミリが提供する独自の消費電力削減機能は、最高速度を必要とするデザインを開発する一方で、熱管理および低消費電力制限の要件を容易に満たすことができる価値ある機能となるでしょう。Stratix III FPGA は、すべての面において当社の次世代製品のニーズを満たしています」
Tino Fibaek
CTO
Andrew Corporation
"The OneBase family of Base Station Systems offers network operators a range of techniques and deployment technologies to meet build-out requirements and deliver coverage, capacity and high-quality service to end-users. The Stratix and HardCopy families have been key enablers of Andrew’s success in this space. And Stratix III, with its lower power consumption, higher integration, and path to HardCopy III structured ASICs remains at the heart of our design plans.”
Bob Suffern
Vice President, Research and Development
El Camino GmbH
「当社は、広範なエンド・マーケットにエンジニアリング・サービスを提供する確立された企業として、アルテラの業界をリードする Stratix II FPGA を多数の先進アプリケーションで活用してきました。現在は、こうした先進アプリケーションの次世代製品プロジェクトで、最も厳しい性能およびコスト要件を低消費電力で達成するために Stratix III FPGA を活用します。新製品を予定通りまたは予定より早く出荷するというアルテラの卓越した実績により、当社は顧客のこれまで以上に厳しい製造スケジュールに対応できるという自信を一層深めています」
Wolfgang Loewer
Managing Director
Gleichmann Electronics Research
「業界最大集積FPGA のStratix II ファミリは、当社のFPGA 開発システムおよびハードウェア・アクセラレータ／コシミュレータ製品の基盤として成功をもたらしてきました。Stratix III ファミリのFPGA 性能化により、当社は顧客に最高水準のファンクションを提供できるようになります。また、Stratix III ファミリは、最も正確なダイナミック・トレース補正およびダイナミック・オンチップ・ターミネーションを含む、最先端の I/O 機能とメモリ・インタフェースを提供し、最高性能のマルチFPGA デザインの開発に非常に有効となるでしょう」
Dieter Scheurer
Managing Director
Gidel
“We have had the opportunity to review the architecture and design of the Stratix III FPGAs from Altera and believe they will be well accepted in the marketplace. We will definitely use them within our next generation of Reconfigurable PROCessor™ systems used by electronics companies around the world for algorithm verification and in-system coprocessors, as well as ASIC emulation and debug.”
Reuven Wientraub
President and CEO
Heidelberg Digital
"The Stratix II family is a testament to Altera's commitment to invest significantly in R&D. Speed and density improvements with new FPGA products are always expected, but the increases in the Stratix II family are above my expectations.
First, the architectural innovations in Stratix II will give me an additional boost in usable gates. For example, the rounding feature in the DSP blocks enables me to use fewer logic resources for the imaging functions in our printer products. Also, the added flexibility in the Stratix II PLL circuits expands their usefulness, allowing me to reduce or eliminate the need to allocate logic resources for these functions. With continued support for 3.3-volt I/O and the ability to drive 5.0-volt TTL, I can avoid the additional cost and complexity of external components to shift voltage levels.
These and other features provided by the Stratix II family will keep Altera at the top of my FPGA list. As our customers demand more features and faster products, I think the Stratix II family will help us meet or exceed those expectations while keeping our development and product costs in check."
Brian Mix
Senior Staff Engineer
Ericsson Labs, Italy
「クロック・スイッチオーバやダイナミックPLLリコンフィギュレーションなど、アルテラのStratixファミリ独自の機能により、 当社は冗長機能を利用して高い信頼性を得ることができるようになりました。Stratixファミリは当社のネットワーク同期アプリケーションに最適と言えます。」
Roberto Teodori
Senior Hardware Designer
「当社のパケット通信用アプリケーションにおいて、当社は多くのメモリ・バッファに加えて、複雑なステート・マシンを実行するために大きなデータ帯域を持つメモリを必要としていました。当社に出荷されたStratix EP1S80デバイスは、単一チップ上にさまざまなメモリ構造を備えており、当社の要件を満たしています。」
Osvoldo Simonelli
Senior Hardware Designer
NetEffect
"We chose the Stratix II family for our ASIC prototyping efforts because it includes the industry's highest-density FPGAs. In addition, the advanced architecture of Stratix II devices provides clear performance advantages which aids our prototyping and helps to accelerate our time-to-market."
Terry Hulett
Vide President of Engineering
Siemens Information and Communication Networks, Inc.
"We at Siemens ICN chose Stratix FPGAs because they offer a combination of significant DSP capabilities and a large amount of internal memory. Also, Altera has done an impressive job of meeting their announced delivery dates for this family."
Jens Tiedemann
Director
FPGA Design Division
Videotek—A Division of Leitch Technology
"We have received our first Stratix II EP2S130 and EP2S60 devices, and will be incorporating them into our next-generation video test equipment. The extra logic capacity, higher performance, and DSP blocks in Stratix II devices are a great fit for implementing the high-performance signal processing functions that our products deliver."
Polo Recuay
Vice President of Engineering
Nortel Networks
"In order to deliver unmatched scalable IP services, our market-leading Shasta products require high-performance components with premium memory bandwidth. Offering the most on-chip memory, processor blocks for accelerating complex functions, supporting single-ended and differential I/O standards, and dedicated serializer/deserializer circuitry for high-speed interfaces, Stratix devices meet our high-performance bandwidth-intensive system needs."
Dave Perri
Shasta IP Services
Stratus Technologies
"Stratus Technologies requires the highest degree of integration and fast time-to-market for our industry-leading fault-tolerant computing products. The Stratix II family offers us the opportunity to develop our largest FPGA designs to date, while keeping our development cycles to a minimum."
Jeff Somers
Director of Hardware Engineering
Siemens Medical
「当社Siemens ICNは、Stratix FPGA製品が優れたDSP機能と大容量内部メモリを兼ね備えていることから、 同製品を採用しました。その上で当社は、アルテラが自ら告知した同ファミリの製品出荷スケジュールを遵守している点も評価しています。」
David Finger
Senior Fellow
STS Technologies
"I have developed programmable logic device designs for the last decade. During that time, I’ve used tools from both Xilinx and Altera.
A customer recently contracted our services to develop a PCI-X board, insisting that I use Xilinx Virtex-II devices. I quickly did a cost comparison of the Xilinx solution with Altera’s Stratix II devices, which also met the customer’s needs, and determined that the Altera solution was far less expensive. For the first manufacturing run of 100 boards, the Altera solution was close to half a million dollars lower in cost than the Xilinx solution.
When a design opportunity arises, I look at offerings from both Altera and Xilinx to find the best fit. I evaluate device functionality, time-to-market (as reflected by tools), and cost of the completed device design. I have never found a case where the Xilinx offering would have been a better choice over the Altera solution. There is just no comparison."
Scott Chaney
President
Motorola Computer Group
"In our MXP multi-service packet transport platform, we need the highest performance devices to provide a high-speed link from network processing to the mesh fabric under emerging open standards, including the proposed CompactPCI Serial Mesh Backplane standard. Altera's portfolio of programmable logic solutions, including Stratix, APEX II, and Mercury devices, help meet our needs with compelling speed and on-chip memory features. Altera devices are also ideally suited to demonstrating the significant advantages of the CSMB standard for high-speed packet environments with the ability to connect to ATM, Frame Relay, and proprietary protocols associated with 3G wireless applications."
Jeff Rhodes
Business Manager
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 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
Legend Silicon
「当社は、ワイヤレス・デジタル転送機器開発に当たり、高度な集積化を必要としています。アルテラのStratix II ファミリは、市場で最も集積度の高いFPGA製品を提供し、また、Stratix II ファミリのアーキテクチャは優れたDSPおよびメモリ・リソースを実現します。当社は、すでに納入されたEP2S130デバイスで、これらの利点を活用することに期待しています。」
Dinesh Venkatachalam
Vice President of Engineering
Mango DSP, Inc.
"The DSP blocks in Stratix FPGAs provided the right combination of features, performance and flexibility for designing our products for the video security, surveillance, and imaging markets. By offering more than four times the number of DSP blocks in Stratix II FPGAs compared to the first Stratix family, Altera provides a very compelling product to us."
Mike Berlin
President
DigiVision
「Stratix FPGA製品は、当社のコンシューマ・エレクトロニクス・アプリケーション向けリアルタイム大規模カーネル画像強化技術を実証 する上で重要な役割を果たしました。Stratixデバイスの高速DSPブロックと豊富なメモリ容量により、当社のデザインは期待を大きく上回る100MHzで稼動するようになりました。Stratixデバイスは、当社のデザイン・サイクルを短縮し、開発期間を縮小することで、プログラマブル・ロジックとしての使命を全うしています。その結果当社は、標準ならびにHDTV、DVDプレーヤ、およびセットトップ・ボックス製造メーカに対して、画像品質を向上しコストを削減する技術を提供できるようになりました。」
Terry Coleman
ASIC Development Manager
EXFO, Inc.
"The Stratix family offered the only product in the market that could address our needs. The EP1S80 had the memory and programmable logic capacity to meet our needs both today and in the future, and it easily met our performance requirements for our newest multi-channel product family."
Jim Stevens
Vice President
EXFO Gnubi Products
Teleview
「当社がアルテラを選んだのは、Stratix デバイスがHDTVアプリケーションに最適なハイエンド・デジタル・シグナル・プロセシング（DSP）ならびにメモリ性能を提供する、唯一のFPGA製品であったためです。またそれに加えて、アルテラのツールとサポートにより、当社は開発リスクを低減しつつ、自社製品の迅速な開発と市場投入を実現することができました。」
Yim Jaewon
President
The Dini Group
"With the rise of ASIC mask costs and the associated risks of custom device development, it is more important than ever for product developers to prove their digital designs with advanced platforms like the DN5000k10. The EP1S80 provides great logic value, and the aggregation of flexible, high-performance Stratix FPGA-based resources and other desirable design development elements in our new platform make it a great fit for many complex applications."
Mike Dini
President
Trans-Lux Corporation
「当社は、画像通信システムの短期間かつ低コスト開発を実現するFPGAベンダを求めていました。当社がアルテラを採用するに至ったのには、いくつもの理由がありました。まず第一に、アルテラが、デザインを迅速に完成することを可能にする、優れたツールを提供していること。第二に、アルテラはStratix デバイスでDSPブロックと最高集積度メモリを提供し、FPGAの機能群において圧倒的な優位性を備えていること。さらに加えて、新しいCycloneデバイスの登場により、アルテラは価格競争力をも持っています。当社は、これらのデバイスを活用したアプリケーションに多数取り組んでいます。」
Milo Whitehead
Senior Electrical Engineer
Marconi
"We are pleased to be receiving production-quality versions of Stratix devices. Our design required large amounts of embedded memory, and Stratix devices were the only FPGAs that could deliver what we needed."
Dave Blakeney
Vice President
Engineering for Broadband Routing & Switching Group
NEC System Technologies, Ltd.
"I have been using Quartus II software to develop our Stratix FPGA design for the past few months. Now that we have the Stratix FPGA, we look forward to taking advantage of the outstanding DSP performance."
Kenichi Hosoya
Manager, 2nd Engineering Department
Servers Platform Division
Extreme Networks
"We could not attempt our current project without Stratix FPGAs, so we were very happy to receive our first device shipment. We implemented an impressive portion of our system on a single Stratix FPGA using nearly all of its high-performance features, and Quartus II software made it easy."
Lorne Graves
Senior FPGA Designer
Pirus Networks
"Altera's rapid rollout of Stratix FPGAs enables us to bring new capabilities and higher levels of performance to our PSX-1000 intelligent storage switch product line. By offering the most on-chip memory in the PLD industry, Stratix FPGAs fulfill a great need for bandwidth-hungry applications in storage and other markets."
Doug Wood
Vice President of Engineering
Sensormatic/Tyco Safety Products, Tyco International
"We will utilize Stratix FPGAs to bring new levels of innovation and integration to our video product line. They will permit new and impressive features in our products."
Dan Fuoco
Senior Principal Engineer
Cadant
"Our cable modem termination systems require significant memory resources to meet the rigorous demands of the DOCSIS specification. By architecting Stratix devices to provide the most on-chip memory of any PLD, Altera acknowledges the importance of memory in today's multimillion-gate designs. Further, the TriMatrix memory structure allocates the on-chip memory resources into block sizes that make sense in system-level design."
Kevin Urban
Lead Hardware Engineer
Echotek
"Now that we have our first Stratix FPGAs, we are beginning to exercise many of their impressive features on our board. Stratix DSP blocks have allowed us to hit speeds that were not possible with earlier PLDs, and will be a great boost to our high-performance digital radio products."
Greg Carter
Hardware Design Engineer
Siemens Ultrasound
"With the introduction of embedded hard DSP blocks in the Stratix family, Altera now has the ammunition to compete with ASICs for signal processing designs that were once completely impractical in FPGA technology. The advantage of having access to 0.13μm multiplier and accumulator performance without the heavy ASIC NRE cannot be ignored."
Kevin M. Hubbard
Sr. ASIC Design Engineer
Seagate Technology, RSS, LLC
"We were very pleased to receive our Stratix devices. They meet our requirements for high bandwidth within a small footprint."
Derrick E. Burton
Staff Engineer
Cedar Point Communications
"With the introduction of the Stratix family, Altera continues to supply the advanced technology that allows small, leading-edge companies to stay ahead of the others by using programmable logic. The number of clock domains and the flexibility of the PLLs within Stratix devices will give us capabilities we couldn't previously get without an ASIC."
Dan English
Director of Hardware Engineering
Pirus Networks
"The combination of excellent performance and abundant memory resources intelligently allocated via the TriMatrix memory structure makes Stratix devices an attractive option for system-level design. The PSX-1000, our Storage Utility Switch based on a complex, memory intensive-architecture, demonstrates significant performance gains in Stratix devices when compared to other programmable logic offerings."
Rich Corely
Founder & Executive Vice President of Technology
D'Crypt
"D'Crypt has always been able to take advantage of Altera's leading-edge technology to deploy high-security assurance solutions to our customers. For example, Stratix DSP blocks deliver the fastest 36-bit multipliers in the programmable logic industry, enabling us to increase the performance of our cores. Furthermore, the volume of memory in Stratix devices, hierarchically organized via the TriMatrix memory structure, allows us to develop innovative products not possible with other PLDs, thus improving our offerings in symmetric and public-key cipher IP cores."
Antony Ng
Chief Executive Officer
Echotek
"The Stratix device architecture offers generous memory resources and other performance-related features that are ideal for the kind of real-time wideband signal processing that we do at Echotek. Also, due to their integrated MAC functions, Stratix DSP blocks efficiently implement complex arithmetic functions like FIR filters without using PLD logic resources, resulting in significant cost savings."
Ralph Kimball
President & Founder
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