Cyclone III FPGAs • March 2007 • www.altera.com



The complete answer for your design challenges

Your creative energy can bring about the next blockbuster

product. Altera’s suite of complete, easy-to-use, free tools and

support assure you of a smooth and successful design process.

We give you a complete answer for your design challenges. With

Altera, you can focus your creative energy on the leading edge—

exactly where you belong.

Maximize productivity with Quartus II

design software

Quartus® II software is the industry leader in performance and

productivity for low-power, low-cost FPGA designs. Automatic

system-level integration and industry-leading compile times will

help you close timing faster. You will also benefit from our

automated power analysis and optimization features. Quartus II

software makes designing easy and fast, so you can move more of

your designs to production sooner.

Get started now.

Download your free Quartus II

Web Edition software to design

with Cyclone III FPGAs today.

Video and image

processing

Game, set, match point. You’ll

catch all the action clearly in both

standard-definition and high-

definition transmissions. Our

devices are a perfect fit for DSP,

video system I/O, video compression

encoding and decoding, and other

video and image processing tasks.

Drive these cost-sensitive applica-

tions and others with the parallel

processing capability of DSP-rich

and memory-rich Cyclone III FPGAs.

The ball keeps moving faster. With

us, you’ll stay a step ahead.

Displays

Picture perfect. That’s what you want

to achieve, whether it’s liquid crystal

displays, plasma display panels,

plasma low-profile, or liquid crystal

on silicon. Of course, you have to

reach your goals faster and cheaper

than the competition. And there’s a

lot of competition to beat. We help

you create a single platform that can

be used for multiple product lines

and image resolutions. You’ll be able

to deliver the latest feature set in no

time. Get to volume first using

display-optimized features to

seamlessly integrate designs, rapidly

update products, and lower costs in

your system so you’re crystal clear.

Wireless

Connecting on the go shapes our

world. People keep moving farther,

faster, in no time, and so does the

wireless technology that makes it

all possible. In areas such as digital

intermediate frequency (IF) and

baseband modems, you can achieve

high-bandwidth parallel processing.

Lower your cost and power con-

sumption with Cyclone III DSP-rich

and memory-rich FPGAs. Make the

world a better connected place.

Forging ahead in new applications

Due to their unprecedented combination of low power, high functionality, and low cost, you can use

Cyclone III FPGAs in an ever-expanding list of high-volume applications—many of which were previously exclusive

to ASICs and ASSPs. These are just a few of the many application areas where we can help you prosper.