Hello and welcome to this edition of the Proactive Components, Inc. blog. After profiling some of our most popular and important electronic parts and components, it is now time for some of our top manufacturers to come into the spotlight.

Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to Altera Corporation.

Altera Corporation is a leading manufacturer of Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs) including both FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) and CPLDs (Complex Programmable Logic Devices). The company also manufactures ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits), SoC (System on Chip) FPGAs, embedded processors, power management devices and configuration devices to help configure their own components within a system. Altera products serve varied end markets including automotive, wireless, broadcast, computing and networking, telecommunications, medical, military and test and measurement areas.

Proactive Components, Inc. is honored to be one of the top suppliers for Altera components.

Part number EP4CGX150DF27I7N is an Altera FPGA available with us in ready to ship quantities. This part belongs to Altera’s popular Cyclone IV GX series of FPGAs. This component has 149760 logic elements and 9360 Logic Array Blocks and a total memory of 9360KB with 393 I/Os. The component exhibits data rate of 3.125GB/sec made possible due to the presence of 8 high speed transceivers within. The Cyclone IV series represents low cost low power FPGAs that meet designers’ need for meeting high bandwidth requirements without escalating system costs.

Part number EP4CE40F23C7N is yet another Cyclone IV series FPGA from Altera available in our stock. However this belongs to the Cyclone IV E series, which does not feature transceivers. All FPGAs in this series are offered in the core voltage of 1V and 2V. This component has 39600 logic elements and 2475 LABs. The total memory for this component is 1134KB and it has 328 I/Os.

Part number EP4CE40F29C7N is also from the Cyclone IV E series. This part differs from the other only in the number of programmable I/Os it offers – which is 534 (as compared to 328 in part number EP4CE40F23C7N). All the other specifications are identical to part number EP4CE40F23C7N.

Besides Cyclone, Altera also manufactures the Stratix and Arria series of FPGAs. Proactive Components, Inc. ships parts from all Altera FPGA families and other Altera components too. Simply request a quote on our website for the Altera part you require. And we will get back to you ASAP with all the details you need. For urgent needs, call 727-535-2645 and mention this blog for priority service.