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Altera - Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) is the leader in innovative custom logic solutions, and has been ever since inventing the world’s first programmable logic device in 1983. Today, over 2,600 employees in 19 countries are providing even more ingenious custom logic solutions – addressing a range of concerns, from power consumption to performance to cost – for customers in a wide variety of industries, including automotive, broadcast, computer and storage, consumer, industrial, medical, military, test and measurement, wireless, and wireline. In addition to devices, Altera’s comprehensive solutions portfolio contains fully integrated software development tools, versatile embedded processors, optimized intellectual property (IP) cores, reference designs examples, and a variety of development kits.

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Digi-Key’s library of more than 500 exclusive PTM Online… On Demand® product training modules is a collection of training tools created with you – the busy design engineer – in mind. They are provided with the cooperation of participating supplier partners. From this one source, you can learn about the latest products and technologies, download datasheets, check inventory, contact our technical staff, and place an order for same-day shipment.

These modules are available in audio and non-audio formats and listed by supplier in easy-to-find alphabetical order. Simply locate the module that interests you and click on your format of choice. We hope you find these tools useful, and with new modules added continuously, we invite you to stop back often to see what’s new.

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Module Name	Audio	Non-Audio	Duration	Parts List
Cyclone II FPGA	1.6MB	472KB	15 min	Parts List
Cyclone® III FPGA	8.98MB	1.26MB	25 min	Parts List
The Max® CPLD Series	6.5MB	1.5MB	15 min	Parts List

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The economical Cyclone® III FPGA Starter Kit is easy to use and an ideal introduction if you have never designed with FPGAs before. If you are an experienced FPGA designer checking out the Cyclone III architecture, you'll love building systems with the 60 percent (on average) faster performance and 50 percent lower power than the competition. Several design examples included in the kit make for a quick "out-of-the-box" evaluation experience. More...

The MAX® II CPLD Development Kit, from the #1 market share supplier of CPLDs, enables you to evaluate the MAX II feature set or begin prototyping your own design. It includes reference designs (LCD controller, PCI, USB, and Slot Machine), demo designs, software, and cables; all the accessories needed to ensure fast and easy use of the MAX II CPLD. More...

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Altera’s Quartus II design software is #1 in performance and productivity for CPLD, FPGA, and structured ASIC designs. Used in combination with a broad portfolio of design-ready intellectual property (IP) cores, you get unmatched levels of performance and productivity in your designs. Quartus II software is easy to use and enables you to get products to market faster. Dramatically improve your productivity compared to traditional FPGA design flows.

The Nios® II embedded processor:
• Lets you configure an exact-fit embedded system in minutes
• Is supported by an array of software tools from Altera and leading embedded partners
• Features the Nios II C2H Compiler, which boosts system performance of time-critical software
• Is used by more designs than any other configurable processor
• Is the world’s most versatile embedded processor

Altera and our partners offer an array of feature-rich development kits, boards, and companion daughtercards to help you simplify your design process and reduce time to market. These board solutions speed system design by providing you with test and debug platforms for RTL generation, while also allowing you to start developing your application software. With refrence designs, cables, and programming hardware, these kits and daughtercards provide an ideal FPGA and CPLD design environment.

Altera offers a broad portfolio of easy-to-use IP cores. These IP cores are high-quality “building blocks” that you can drop into your system designs, avoiding the time-consuming task of creating complete designs from scratch. Easy-to-use, pre-verified, and configurable, Altera® IP cores are optimized for the latest Altera devices and are fully supported in Quartus® II design software.

Programming hardware enables a PC to configure or program Altera® devices. Download cables are available to drive configuration or programming data using a variety of standard connections on your PC including the parallel printer port, USB port, and Ethernet network port with an RJ-45 connector.

Altera’s DSP Builder technology allows you to go from system definition/simulation using the industry-standard The MathWorks/Simulink tools to system implementation in a matter of minutes.

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