Hong Kong, June 24, 2014 – Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced that its Interlaken Look-Aside IP (intellectual property) core has completed testing and is interoperable with Cavium's NEURON Search™ processor. This pre-validated, immediately deployable solution provides networking OEMs with a low-latency, high-performance packet interface for use in networking appliances including routers, switches, firewalls, and secure storage. The Interlaken Look-Aside IP core is now available as part of Altera's industry-leading IP core portfolio. Altera's IP core portfolio is optimized to deliver superior performance, latency, and space utilization when integrated within Altera's Arria® 10 and Stratix® V FPGAs.

Altera's FPGA-based Interlaken Look-Aside solution enables interoperability between datapath devices and look-aside coprocessors at transfer rates up to 300Gbps and delivers 500Mpps performance. Beyond superior performance, the Interlaken Look-Aside IP comprises soft and hard implementation logic blocks, providing customers with high-level user interfaces and lane and data rate configuration flexibility, enabling optimized integration.

Altera and Cavium performed testing and validation of the Interlaken Look-Aside solution using the Stratix V FPGA and NEURON Search processor. The low-latency packet interface and scalable storage capacity provide high performance and high capacity for ACL (Access Control List) and packet classification applications. The interoperability report, available through Altera, describes the test methodology and performance metrics achieved using Altera's Interlaken Look-Aside IP core and Cavium's NEURON Search processor together.

Alex Grbic, Software and IP Marketing Director at Altera, stated, "Altera's industry-leading IP cores are designed to deliver industry-leading performance, lowest latency, and minimal resource utilization. By demonstrating interoperability between our products with Cavium, customers can confidently deploy industry-leading solutions."

Cavium's NEURON Search processor product family is currently in volume production and targets a wide range of high-performance, L2-L4 network search applications. The Search processor product family supports up to one million IPv4 and IPv6 rules, delivers hundreds of millions of searches per second, and consumes a maximum power of less than 20W. The NEURON Search processor provides excellent flexibility in rule storage and specification of rule table formats.

Weishan Sun, Product Marketing Director for Cavium's NEURON Search processor product line, stated, "The packet classification solution from Altera and Cavium represents a low-risk, high-performance coprocessing solution that customers need and recognize. The combination of Altera's Interlaken Look-Aside IP and Cavium's NEURON Search processor simplifies solution integration, enabling customers to develop boards quickly, saving engineering time and materials compared to non-pre-validated hardware solutions."