BANGALORE: Altera Corporation today announced its Quartus II software version 7.2.Designers using Quartus II software version 7.2 can expect their Stratix III FPGAs compile-time advantage to grow to three times that of competing high-end 65-nm FPGAs.

“More than 15 years experience using the largest and most complex FPGAs from multiple vendors has taught me that Altera's Quartus II software is the productivity winner,” said Joe Jacob, president of Quasar Systems, a design services company. "Using Altera's Quartus II software tool suite, I was able to build and test a PCI Master/Target system with DMA and memory interfaces in a single day that would have taken four to six weeks using competitive tools. The Quartus II software enables me to finish my designs quicker than other tool suites.”

“Our customers today are increasingly concerned about designer productivity, so they look for tools that give them a competitive edge,” said Louie Leung, marketing director at Altera. “With our latest Quartus II software, our productivity advantage has improved from 2X to 3X compared to our competitor’s solutions, enabling our customers to compile their designs faster and meet their aggressive time-to-market goals.”

Quartus II software version 7.2 includes productivity and performance-focused enhancements that enable designers to achieve faster compile times and meet performance requirements. A Quartus II software user working with a multiprocessor computer will experience, on average, a 20 percent reduction in compile times over single-processor computers.

Additionally, enhanced place-and-route algorithms enable Stratix III customers to meet their high-performance requirements and offer a two speed grade advantage versus competitors.