Electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, recognized by design engineers as having the industry’s broadest selection of electronic components available for immediate shipment, today announced the addition of Altera’s MAX® V CPLDs to its vast product line.

MAX V CPLDs feature a unique, non-volatile architecture with densities ranging from 40 to 2,210 logic elements (LEs). The family provides robust features at up to 50 percent lower total power compared to competitive CPLDs. The devices are ideal for use in general-purpose and power sensitive designs in a wide variety of applications, including I/O expansion, interface bridging, power management control, configuration control and analog control. The MAX V family is fully supported in Altera’s latest release of its Quartus® II software version 11.0.

Altera’s MAX V CPLDs are available for purchase now on Digi-Key’s global websites.

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RS extends FPGA portfolio, adding 150 devices including new Cyclone and
Spartan families from Altera and Xilinx

RS Components is adding more than 150 products to its FPGA portfolio for mainstream industrial, scientific and medical applications, providing more options for system-on-chip designers seeking fast, convenient access to established, price-competitive device families and supporting development tools.

For RS, Paul Webster, Head of Product Management, Electronics said: “Today’s mid-range FPGAs and highly-featured CPLDs help designers meet aggressive cost and power targets, as well as speeding up time to market and increasing design agility. They are often chosen in preference to a microcontroller or ASIC-based design in projects where a variety of sensing, networking, signal processing, Gigabit-I/O and general-purpose capabilities are required”.

The broad range of devices now available from RS Components includes Altera’s APEX, Cyclone®, FLEX® and Stratix® architectures including APEX 20K, Cyclone II, Cyclone III and Stratix II families. Xilinx device families include CoolRunner™-II, Virtex®-4, Virtex-5 and multiple Spartan® families including Spartan 3E/3A/3AN and Spartan 3A DSP. A dramatically extended portfolio of devices from Lattice Semiconductor will also be announced shortly.

“The ever-increasing choice of competitively priced FPGAs targeting mainstream industrial applications is an extremely important trend, often overshadowed by news of leading-edge innovations,” continued Webster. “As the leading European distributor offering one-stop-shop catalogue facilities, we provide the easiest possible access to this technology, including convenient, rapid delivery free of restrictions such as minimum order quantities.”

Supporting the company’s strategy offering convenient access to low-cost, low-power custom-programmable design is a comprehensive range of development boards and kits. These enable designers to familiarise themselves with device features and design techniques and take advantage of application examples and reference designs that help accelerate project completion.

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Electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, recognized by design engineers as having the industry’s broadest selection of electronic components available for immediate shipment, announced today the expansion of its global distribution agreement with Altera® Corporation to include the Asia Pacific region.

“We are very excited to extend our relationship with Altera to the Asia Pacific region,” said Dave Doherty, Digi-Key’s vice president of semiconductor product. “Altera’s accelerated growth with Digi-Key in Japan and Europe gives us confidence that we can reach an expanded customer base with Altera’s leadership products in Asia as well.”

Digi-Key stocks Altera’s FPGAs, CPLDs, cable programming accessories, general embedded development boards and kits, and more. Products in stock are featured in Digi-Key’s print and online catalogs and are available for purchase on Digi-Key’s global websites.

“Altera is excited to extend its product offerings through Digi-Key to customers across the globe,” said Steve McMinn, Altera’s vice president of worldwide channel sales. “Altera’s partnership with Digi-Key is based on each company’s commitment to provide high-quality products and outstanding service to our customers.”

With the invention of the world’s first programmable logic device in 1983, Altera has become the pioneer of programmable logic solutions. Altera products are offered in conjunction with software tools, intellectual property and customer support to provide high-value programmable solutions to customers worldwide.

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Premier Farnell and Altera are proud to join forces on element14 to give an overview of the new FPGA family recently realeased by Altera

Cyclone IV FPGAs bring an unprecedented combination of low power, high functionality, and low cost to high-volume, power- and cost-sensitive applications. Extending the Cyclone family’s leadership in providing the industry’s lowest cost, lowest power FPGAs, the new Cyclone IV family also includes integrated transceivers. In this webinar, Theresa Vu from Altera will give an overview of the family and take questions from interested registrants.

http://www.element-14.com/community/events/2308

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