Altera Corporation
(
ALTR
) recently announced that one of its early customers in the
Open CL for FPGAs program - goHDR has achieved successful results
with the same.
Altera Corporation manufactures a wide array of products such as
programmable logic devices (PLDs) which consist of
field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and complex programmable
logic devices (CPLDs). These are standard semiconductor integrated
circuits or chips which customers program to execute required logic
functions in their electronic systems.
The company achieved a significant reduction in development time
and a dramatic increase in performance leveraging Altera's OpenCL
for FPGAs.
In tandem with Altera, goHDR ported its proprietary C-code to
the OpenCL standard and implemented the code in an FPGA in less
than a week. Generally, this process requires 3-6 months using a
traditional HDL flow.
Meanwhile, last month, Altera announced that it started shipping
its 28-nm Cyclone V FPGAs.
The FPGA family consist of Stratix, Cyclone, Arria, APEX, FLEX
and ACEX series. Altera has designed its Cyclone product
families using advanced CMOS process technology and enable
programmable flexibility to cost-sensitive applications in all its
markets.
The Cyclone IV and Cyclone V FPGAs use low-power process
technology to meet market requirements for low power consumption.
The shipment of the Cyclone V family from Altera completes Altera's
release of its 28-nm tailored product portfolio. These
products meet a wide range of customer requirements from the
highest bandwidth to the lowest power.
Altera, which competes with
Xilinx, Inc
(
XLNX
) introduced its 28nm FPGAs in 2011. Backed with the success of
40nm products, the company continues to gain momentum in its 28nm
products.
We continue to maintain an Underperform recommendation on
Altera. Our recommendation is supported by Zacks #4 Rank, which
translates into a short-term rating of Sell.
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