![Altera StratixIVGX FPGA](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Altera_StratixIVGX_FPGA.jpg)
Stratix is a brand of
FPGA
A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is an integrated circuit designed to be configured by a customer or a designer after manufacturinghence the term '' field-programmable''. The FPGA configuration is generally specified using a hardware de ...
products developed by
Intel
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 seri ...
, Programmable Solutions Group (former
Altera
Altera Corporation was a manufacturer of programmable logic devices (PLDs) headquartered in San Jose, California. It was founded in 1983 and acquired by Intel in 2015.
The main product lines from Altera were the flagship Stratix series, mid-rang ...
). Other current FPGA product lines include e.g.
Agilex
Agilex is a brand covering several families of FPGA products developed by Intel Programmable Solutions Group, and are the FPGA products developed by Intel after the acquisition of Altera. The initial family of Agilex FPGAs began shipping in 2019 a ...
, Arria and Cyclone families.
Stratix FPGAs are typically programmed in
hardware description language
In computer engineering, a hardware description language (HDL) is a specialized computer language used to describe the structure and behavior of electronic circuits, and most commonly, digital logic circuits.
A hardware description language e ...
s such as
VHDL
The VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL) is a hardware description language (HDL) that can model the behavior and structure of digital systems at multiple levels of abstraction, ranging from the system level down to that of logic gates ...
or
Verilog
Verilog, standardized as IEEE 1364, is a hardware description language (HDL) used to model electronic systems. It is most commonly used in the design and verification of digital circuits at the register-transfer level of abstraction. It is als ...
, using the
Intel Quartus Prime
Intel Quartus Prime is programmable logic device design software produced by Intel; prior to Intel's acquisition of Altera the tool was called Altera Quartus Prime, earlier Altera Quartus II. Quartus Prime enables analysis and synthesis of HD ...
computer software.
Intel FPGAs have been used in automotive, optical imaging, memory, data processing and computing
Altera and IBM Unveil FPGA-accelerated POWER Systems with Coherent Shared Memory
MarketWatch applications.
References
See also
*Virtex (FPGA)
Virtex is the flagship family of FPGA products developed by Xilinx, a part of AMD. Other current product lines include Kintex (mid-range) and Artix (low-cost), each including configurations and models optimized for different applications.DSP-FPGA. ...
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Intel microprocessors
Reconfigurable computing