Hong Kong – July 22, 2014 – Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) announced today that it has joined the Embedded Vision Alliance (EVA), an industry group of companies that provide technologies used to develop practical applications of computer vision. Altera will provide the group with information on programmable logic technologies that enable system designers in the industrial, surveillance, automotive, military, broadcast, and consumer electronics sectors to utilize FPGAs, SoCs, IP, and design tools for embedded vision applications.

Altera FPGAs provide flexibility and performance benefits across the entire embedded vision processing pipeline, including image sensor interfaces, image signal processing, compression, transmission, and video content analysis. The parallel architecture of FPGAs facilitates the acceleration of vision processing algorithms, and the Altera SDK for OpenCL design tool enables the easy implementation of parallel processing applications on FPGAs.

In addition, Altera hard floating-point DSP blocks enable seamless use of native floating-point support, which can reduce development time by 6 to 12 months and provide superior GFLOPS/W performance compared to other hard floating-point solutions in the industry.

"Dan McNamara, Vice President of Altera's Industrial, Automotive, and Broadcast Business Unit, stated, 'Altera is joining the Embedded Vision Alliance to propose solutions to directly break through CPU performance bottlenecks and to continuously provide new IP through end-to-end vision processing pipelines.' He added, 'With industry-leading OpenCL development tools and a robust and scalable ecosystem of vision processing technology, this joining will accelerate innovation in the embedded vision industry.'"

Altera FPGAs support various sensor interfaces, compression standards, transmission protocols, and custom video analysis, enabling system designers to implement higher performance in products using hardware acceleration. Additionally, Altera FPGAs can integrate multiple devices (CPU, DSP, ASSP) onto a single chip, reducing board space, power consumption, and design complexity.

Jeff Bier, founder of the Embedded Vision Alliance, said, "Embedded vision enables devices to enhance responsiveness, safety, and capabilities by introducing vision capabilities that allow them to see and understand the world around them. Altera is an innovative company in the technology of integrating visual intelligence into product design, and we welcome Altera to the Embedded Vision Alliance. Our goal is to empower product creators to adopt embedded vision technology, and we look forward to working together to achieve this quickly."