Altera has announced that its two Cyclone devices, the EP1C6 and EP1C20 devices, have moved from sampling to production-qualified status six weeks ahead of schedule.
According to the company, the move to volume production is a result of significant engineering accomplishments driven by the success of TSMC's robust 0,13-µ process technology, and Altera's new '24/7' test methodology.
"Altera Cyclone FPGAs provide high flexibility to our medical equipment products," said Mu Le Min, vice president and director for R&D of Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics. "Cyclone devices are more cost efficient than ASICs, which have high start-up costs and the barrier of minimum order quantities. Also, Altera's design software is quick and easy, providing us additional cost and time-to-market advantages."
Altera harnessed the power of the Internet to develop a new, continuous, massively parallel product test methodology. Involving several teams in various Altera locations around the world, engineers work on different areas of testability and user check out, and seamlessly hand-off from one group to another in different time zones. This '24/7' test methodology results in shorter development times that in turn accelerates customers' time to market, says Altera.
"Cyclone device's target markets have a quick lifecycle ramp, so we know that our customers are just as sensitive to time-to-market pressures as they are to cost," said Bill Hata, vice president of product engineering at Altera. "We put huge emphasis on the timely delivery of silicon to our customers. Our time-to-market is their time-to-market."
The Cyclone device family is the only "built from the ground up" low-cost 0,13-µ FPGA in production claims Altera. Initial shipments to distributors have begun and Altera plans to stock its worldwide distribution channel with the first 25 000 units during the next two months.
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