Altera joins The Linux Foundation

Al­tera’s pro­gram­ma­ble so­lu­tions and com­ple­men­tary pow­er man­age­ment tech­nolo­gies en­able cus­tomers to de­vel­op and de­ploy high­ly dif­fer­en­ti­at­ed and in­no­v­a­tive sys­tems. Al­tera’s ARM-based SoC FPGAs of­fer em­bed­ded de­vel­op­ers a su­pe­ri­or ar­chi­tec­ture that pro­vide high­er sys­tem per­for­mance, low­er sys­tem pow­er, of­fer greater flex­i­bil­i­ty, re­duce board space and low­er sys­tem costs.

Al­tera SoC FPGAs are sup­port­ed with the most ad­vanced Lin­ux tech­nolo­gies, in­clud­ing the lat­est sta­ble ker­nel, the Long-term Sup­port Ini­tia­tive (LTSI) ker­nel, Preempt-RT and the Angstrom dis­tri­b­u­tion. Al­tera is com­mit­ted to the open source com­mu­ni­ty and has up­streamed its SoC Lin­ux code to main­line for con­tin­ued im­prove­ment. The www.Rock­etBoards.org web por­tal is an open-source com­mu­ni­ty for Al­tera SoC FPGA users that pro­vides 1000s of Lin­ux de­vel­op­ers sup­port re­sources and a repos­i­to­ry of code based on in­dus­try best prac­tices.

“The ar­chi­tec­ture we have built into our ARM-based SoC FPGAs is sec­ond-to none; al­low­ing cus­tomers to lever­age our ar­chi­tec­tur­al ad­van­tage to rapid­ly de­vel­op high­ly dif­fer­en­ti­at­ed prod­ucts,” said Jo­erg Bertholdt, di­rec­tor of em­bed­ded soft­ware mar­ket­ing at Al­tera. “Lin­ux is the most pop­u­lar op­er­at­ing sys­tem cho­sen by our cus­tomers and our work with the Lin­ux com­mu­ni­ty and now the Lin­ux Foun­da­tion en­sures our SoC FPGAs con­tin­ue to be sup­port­ed with the lat­est Lin­ux tech­nolo­gies.”