Watch this demo video to see how Stratix® II GX FPGAs give you the ability to change the position of backplane cards on the fly with total preservation of signal integrity at high data rates.  With Plug & Play Signal Integrity, Stratix II GX FPGAs eliminate the painstaking process of manually reconfiguring your backplane equalization.Using transceivers equipped with an Adaptive Dispersion Compensation Engine (ADCE), Stratix II GX FPGAs allow … Read More → "Plug & Play Signal Integrity for High-Performance FPGAs with Transceivers"

You may know about the cost and performance advantages of designing systems on a programmable chip. But did you know how easy it is to do? Learn how by watching this new 8-minute video. You’ll learn, step by step, how to build your microcontroller functionality into an FPGA in just minutes and see the compact, low-cost BeMicro FPGA-based MCU Evaluation Board in action. You’ll also find out how easy it is to design with the configurable 32-bit Nios® II embedded processor.</ … Read More → "5 Easy Steps to Building an Embedded Processor System Inside an FPGA"

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.