Cyclone III FPGAs • March 2007 • www.altera.com



The FPGA advantage gets you to

market first

You’re in a race and anything you can do to be

more efficient is going to positively impact your

bottom line. FPGAs give you the flexibility you

need because they are reprogrammable. Even

after your product is in the market, you can

make updates on the fly and adapt to market

changes fast. You can use Cyclone III FPGAs as

the heart of your system. If you already have an

ASIC in your system, you can use Cyclone III

FPGAs to coprocess and enhance your current

product with added features. Or, you can offload

functionality from the ASIC onto the Cyclone III

FPGA. You can use our devices for typical ASSP

functions and not be locked into keeping that

functionality in the future. The real benefit:

shorter development time and low cost. You’ll

cut your time from a year or more to just weeks.

You can continuously introduce feature

enhancements and respond to customer needs or

competitor threats. The risk is next to none.

We deliver what you need—

every time

We know you’re pressed to go to market in a hurry with premium quality, cutting-edge products.

We’re also aware that the days of deep pockets are over. At Altera, you drive our product definition.

We listen to you carefully to uncover your design and business challenges, making you the inspiration

for our next-generation products. And we’ll keep on listening—from product definition through

design to delivery. We defined, designed, and are delivering Cyclone III FPGAs with the ideal features

for your needs—nothing more, nothing less.

After product definition, Altera uses a very rigorous product design process, working hand in hand

with our foundry partner TSMC. We validate functionality with dozens of test chips to ensure quality

and on-time delivery so you can design with confidence.

industry’s first

low-cost

65-nm FPGA