Are you looking for a way to speed up the design process for your low-power FPGA applications? This 10-minute video will give you a closer look at the Cyclone® III LS FPGA Development Kit, particularly two utilities that accelerate the design cycle – the Board Test System and the Board Update Portal. You’ll see the Cyclone III LS FPGA Development Kit in action and find out how this device can support your cost-sensitive, bandwidth-intensive applications.

Need very high device density and performance levels for your 100G wireline applications? In this 9-minute video you’ll learn about the design advantages of 40-nm Stratix IV GT FPGAs and see an Altera Interlaken solution running on our 100G demo board. You’ll also find out how you can use Altera’s 10G Transceiver Signal Integrity Kit, Stratix IV GT Edition, to evaluate signal integrity as well as generate and monitor PRBS patterns.

Need to support multiple Industrial Ethernet protocols in your factory or process automation system? This 10-minute video features three demos integrating motor control and Industrial Ethernet into a single FPGA. You’ll learn how you can easily change protocols on the same FPGA platform and add any Industrial Ethernet communication to existing industrial equipment.

Do you have to continually provide more design functionality while keeping up with new standards and lowering costs and power? Watch this 7-minute video to see the Arria II GX transceiver running PCI Express, XAUI and 3G-SDI protocols and learn about an FPGA that offers a high-performance fabric at half the power and lower cost than competing high-end FPGAs. You’ll see the transceiver’s eye diagram and learn how you can use the Arria II GX FPGA Development Kit to speed up your development cycle.</ … Read More → "See PCIe, XAUI, and 3G-SDI on an Arria II GX Transceiver FPGA"

In today’s digital studio, video format conversion is challenging and time consuming, yet necessary. Learn about an easy method for up-conversion, down-conversion, and cross-conversion of SD and HD video streams.

Watch this 8-minute … Read More → "Accelerate Your Video Format Conversion Using 1080p Framework"

Altera’s new Transceiver Signal Integrity Development Kit, Stratix® IV GX Edition, enables a thorough evaluation of the transceiver’s interoperability and SERDES signal integrity.  This 8-minute video demonstrates the performance differences between 3-inch and 40-inch board traces and how pre-emphasis dramatically improves signal quality.  You’ll also learn what a “bit-error ratio” is and why it’s important as well as how to monitor power consumption through the kit’s GUI.

In this 4-minute video, check out Altera’s 40-nm Stratix IV FPGA demos showcasing 1.5-Gbps LVDS performance and an 8.5-Gbps transceiver operating with excellent signal integrity. You’ll watch eye diagrams demonstrating very low jitter, and how pre-emphasis and equalization improve signal integrity and allow for very long traces.

In this 6-minute video you’ll see how Stratix III FPGAs support SGMII GigE operation on LVDS I/O pins at 1.25 Gbps. With Stratix III FPGAs, you can build communications systems requiring single or multiple (up to 96) Ethernet links quickly and simply while meeting jitter and tolerance requirements. SGMII GigE operation is available on fast, mid-range and industrial speed grade devices.

Altera’s proprietary Programmable Power Technology enables the Stratix® III logic fabric to consume less core power than Virtex-5 when implementing the same design. In this 4-minute video, you’ll see a side-by-side comparison and how Stratix III FPGAs allow for the lowest possible power consumption without compromising performance.