Altera's Stratix IV GT FPGAs Take Top Honors at EDN China's 2009 Innovation Awards

Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced its 40-nm Stratix® IV GT FPGAs were recognized by EDN China with its prestigious "Best Product Award." Altera was presented with the award at EDN China's Innovation Award ceremony, which took place during the 2009 Innovation Conference held in Shenzhen, China on November 18. The Stratix IV GT FPGA is the only single-chip device available today that meets the high-speed bandwidth requirements for next-generation framer, MAC, bridging and switching applications for 100-Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and 100-Gigabit Optical Transport Networks (OTN).

"As the only programmable devices with integrated 11.3-Gbps transceivers, Stratix IV GT FPGAs are uniquely suited to meet the demands of today's high-bandwidth applications and we are pleased to present Stratix IV GT FPGAs with our Best Product Award," said Jeff Lu, editor-in-chief of EDN China. "This leading-edge device delivers several innovative features that will enable design teams to bring the industry's next-generation communications systems to market."

EDN China's annual Innovation Award honors the products and people that shape the electronics industry. Finalists are nominated by a panel of judges that includes technical experts from industry, universities and institutes, as well as EDN China editors. The final award winners are selected by EDN China's 40,000 readers and website users. Altera's Stratix IV GT FPGAs received the most votes and won EDN China's "Best Product Award" in the programmable logic devices category.

"Our Stratix IV FPGA family has received broad industry recognition since its introduction in 2008 and we are honored that EDN China and its readers selected Stratix IV GT FPGAs for such a prestigious award," said Vince Hu, vice president of product and corporate marketing at Altera.

Stratix IV GT FPGAs are optimized specifically for the latest generation of 40G and 100G applications used in communications systems, high-end test equipment and military communications systems. Stratix IV GT FPGAs feature up to 48 integrated transceivers with 32 that operate up to 11.3 Gbps, delivering the industry's highest bandwidth available on a programmable device. Stratix IV GT FPGAs feature up to 530K logic elements (LEs), 20.3-Mbits internal RAM and 1,288 18x18 multipliers.

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