Altera introduces low cost FPGA

Bangalore, Mar 15 (UNI) Altera Corporation today announced the availability of Cyclone III family, the industry's first 65 nm low cost Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA)s.

The new FPGAs consume 75 per cent less power than competing products and deliver 5000 to 120,000 logic elements, upto four Mbits of memory and upto 288 digital signal processing multipliers, Altera Marketing manager for Asia Pacific Razak Mohammadali told newsmen here.

He said more than 80,000 products are currently developed using FPGAs and over the next few years the number was expected to cross 120,000 he added.

Altera's programmable solutions enabled system and semiconductor companies to rapidly and cost effectively innovate, differentiate and win in their markets, he added.

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