Providing Industry-Leading DSP Solutions
Code:DSP is a major Altera® technology initiative to provide industry-leading solutions for the next generation of digital signal processing (DSP) applications. Featuring leading-edge devices, software tools, intellectual property (IP) cores, and development platforms, Altera's line of DSP products are enabling designs that demand premium performance in areas such as video and image processing and high-speed digital communications while delivering the lowest-cost per channel.
The Altera DSP Solutions Center has comprehensive, up-to-date information and resources for DSP designers who want to reap the benefits of programmable logic. Additionally, Altera offers training courses targeted to DSP designers who want to get up to speed quickly on the latest tips and techniques for creating efficient, high-performance DSP designs. Altera's DSP support network includes internal and partner organizations from all over the world who are experts on Altera products and can provide localized DSP application expertise.
Price and Performance Leadership
Altera overturned the DSP community's conventional wisdom about what is possible with FPGA-based DSP solutions. Compelling third-party benchmarks show that Altera devices provide 10x the DSP performance per dollar compared to the industry’s most widely used digital signal processor solutions.
Enabling FPGA Coprocessor Designs to Boost System Performance
System architectures with FPGA coprocessors can offload a digital signal processor and efficiently execute the computationally-intensive blocks of DSP algorithms, greatly boosting system-level DSP performance. Altera provides an industry-leading software development flow that allows you to quickly create coprocessor designs and integrate them into the overall system.
Maximum DSP Performance
High-density Stratix® IV FPGAs push the envelope of DSP performance. Featuring embedded DSP blocks running at 550 MHz, these devices can provide over 700 giga multiply-accumulate operations per second (GMACS). Combined with a revolutionary logic architecture and speed-optimized interconnect, Stratix series FPGAs are ideal for enabling the highest performance DSP applications.
Lowest Cost per DSP Function
Low-cost Cyclone® III FPGAs provide the benefits of DSP performance, flexibility, and faster time-to-market, all at ASIC prices. The least expensive member of the family, the EP3C5 device, has enough embedded multipliers and logic resources to perform real-time 7 x 7 pixel filtering on HDTV 1080p video. The Cyclone III family is the right choice for cost-sensitive DSP applications compared to digital signal processors and other FPGAs.
Industry's Only Scalable DSP Solution
For higher volume applications, Altera offers a simple, turnkey migration from Stratix FPGAs to pin-compatible HardCopy® ASICs. You are guaranteed functionally equivalent drop-in replacements for your DSP system designs.
