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Altera Establishes Industry's First Embedded Software IP
Partnership Program
New Program Enhances System-on-a-Programmable-Chip (SOPC)
Solutions by Offering Industry Leading Software Intellectual
Property (IP)
San Jose, Calif., October 23, 2001--Engineers designing
systems around integrated processors and programmable logic devices
(PLDs), such Altera Corporation's (Nasdaq: ALTR) ARM®-based Excalibur[tm] embedded
processor solution, now have direct access to the software required
for supporting complex system-on-programmable-chip (SOPC) solutions.
Today, Altera unveiled the Altera Megafunction Partnership Program
(AMPPSM) for Software. In
conjunction with its Excalibur embedded processor strategy, Altera
recognizes the need to provide its customers access to state-of-the
art application code, protocol stacks, and other embedded processor
software-based intellectual property (IP).
"Altera is addressing the complex engineering development needs
of customers as they develop a complete SOPC solution," said Craig
Lytle, vice president of the IP business unit at Altera. "The
addition of the AMPP Software program allows Altera to be a one-stop
shop for both IP and software applications."
Members of Altera's new AMPP for Software inlcude HelloSoft Inc.
(http://www.us.design-reuse.com/cgi-bin/TRACKING/exit.pl?url=http://www.hellosoft.com),
Future Software Ltd (http://www.us.design-reuse.com/cgi-bin/TRACKING/exit.pl?url=http://www.futsoft.com),
and Ncomm, Inc. (http://www.us.design-reuse.com/cgi-bin/TRACKING/exit.pl?url=http://www.ncomm.com).
The AMPP Software partners will augment the existing Altera AMPP
partners, which consist of Hardware Description Language (HDL)-based
IP providers. A customer utilizing the resources available through
both of these programs in conjunction with Altera's Excalibur
devices will be able to achieve faster time-to-market with their
end-systems by being able to easily implement software applications
IP as well as hardware IP.
"By working with Altera to bring HelloSoft's software expertise
and IP to the SOPC arena, we can accelerate the path from design
through implementation," said Krishna Yarlagadda, president and
chief executive officer of HelloSoft Corporation. "Among the many
benefits for our mutual customers is the significant reduction in
the time it takes to develop and deliver products to market."
Altera AMPP for SoftwareAlong with the ability to serve
worldwide customers, AMPP Software partners were selected by Altera
based on their strong track records in software development and
embedded processor knowledge. In addition, Altera will provide AMPP
Software partners with in-depth technical training on Altera's
entire portfolio of SOPC product solutions. Thus, AMPP Software
partners will enable SOPC designers to more smoothly deploy Altera's
Excalibur embedded processor solutions - which combine logic, memory
and a Nios[tm] and ARM-based processor core - in addition
to Altera's catalog of IP cores and APEX[tm], APEX II or
Mercury[tm] devices.
About AlteraAltera Corporation, The Programmable Solutions
Company®, was founded in 1983 and is
a leading supplier of programmable logic devices (PLDs). Altera's
CMOS-based PLDs are user-programmable semiconductor chips that
enhance flexibility and reduce time-to-market for companies in the
communications, computer peripheral, and industrial markets. By
using high performance devices, software development tools, and
sophisticated intellectual property cores,
system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) solutions can be created with
embedded processors, memory, and other complex logic together on a
single PLD. Altera common stock is traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market
under the symbol ALTR. More information on Altera is available on
the Internet at http://www.us.design-reuse.com/cgi-bin/TRACKING/exit.pl?url=http://www.altera.com.
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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. All other product or service
names are the property of their respective holders.
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