Discover How Altera's Programmable Solutions Drive Innovation in the Broadcast Industry at IBC2006

Altera Corp. Sep 21, 2006

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Altera Corporation (NASDAQ:ALTR) will showcase its portfolio of industry- leading programmable logic solutions for the digital broadcast industry at the upcoming International Broadcasting Convention (IBC2006) event in Amsterdam. Visitors to Altera's booth will see demonstrations of programmable logic-based solutions that enable designers of broadcast applications to rapidly go to market and deliver high-quality broadcast products to their customers. These demonstrations include:

o The industry's first complete FPGA-based video over Internet protocol reference design with pro-MPEG forward error correction (FEC) implementation
o The first FPGA-based 3-Gbps serial digital interface (SDI) intellectual property (IP) on the market and SDI, high definition-SDI IP
o Altera's Audio Video Development Kit, StratixÂ® II GX Edition
o Altera's FPGA-based Video and Image Processing Suite

Visitors to Altera's booth will also see demonstrations from several AlteraÂ® partners including:

o ATEME -- H.264 HD broadcast quality encoder
o Let It Wave -- Breakthrough SD to HD upconverter
o Commsonic -- Scalable and optimized DVB-S2 and J.83 modulators
o EBV -- Video board

When:
September 8-12, 2006

Where:
Hall 8, Booth 375
RAI Congress Centre
Amsterdam

Additionally, IBC2006 attendees can also see Altera's technology at work at the following exhibits:

    Company         Product Type(s)          Product(s)            Booth

                                                                   Number



  Alitronika DVS    ASI Adapter, DVB-T/H    * Asipod               3.142

                    modulator devices



  Ateme             Real-time SD & HD       * ATE4000              4.378

                    MPEG-4 AVC/H.264        * H.264 HD

                    encoding                  broadcast

                    technology                quality

                                              encoder



  Ciprico           Storage solutions for   * MediaVault U320-R    7.510

                    HD video content        * MediaVault U320-S

                    creation                * MediaVault U320-RX



  DekTec            ASI/SDI USB-2 Adapters, * DTU-245              3.123

                    DVB-C, DVB-S, DVB-T     * DTA-110

                    modulator cards,        * DTA-160

                    DVB-IP Gateway,

                    low-profile PCI

                    Express cards for

                    ASI/SDI interfacing



  Let It Wave       Upconverter for         * Let It Wave Video    8.268

                    deinterlacing, scaling,  Upconverter

                    noise removal, and

                    enhancement



  T-VIPS            Video Gateways          * TVG410 SDI to IP     4.161

                    cProcessor               TVG420 ASI to IP

                                            * TVG415/TVG430

                                             JPEG2000

                                            * CP510 TSP

                                            * CP520 MUX

                                            * CP540 Switch



  Tut Systems       Real-time SD & HD       * Astria Content       4.256

                    MPEG-4 AVC/H.264         Processor

                    encoding technology



  W&W               Low delay broadcast-    * Single chip          7.835

 Communications     quality video encoders   H.264/MPEG-4

                    and decoders             AVC encoders

                                             and decoders

For additional information on Altera at IBC2006 or to register for the event, please visit altera.com/ibc2006 .

Contact:
Ford Kanzler
Altera Corporation
Tel:408-544-6397
newsroom@altera.com

Source: Altera Corporation

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