Altera upgrades Quartus II

Bangalore

October 8th, 2007

Altera Corporation has launched its Quartus II software version 7.2.
Designers using Quartus II software version 7.2 can expect their Stratix III
FPGAs compile-time advantage to grow to three times that of competing high-end
65-nm FPGAs.

"With our latest Quartus II software, our productivity advantage has
improved from 2X to 3X compared to our competitor's solutions, enabling our
customers to compile their designs faster and meet their aggressive
time-to-market goals," said Louie Leung, marketing director at Altera.

Quartus II software version 7.2 includes productivity and performance-focused
enhancements that enable designers to achieve faster compile times and meet
performance requirements. A Quartus II software user working with a
multiprocessor computer will experience, on average, a 20 percent reduction in
compile times over single-processor computers.

Enhanced place-and-route algorithms enable Stratix III customers to meet
their high-performance requirements and offer a two-speed grade advantage versus
competitors.