The Fidus and Altera® Gold Alliance Partnership
Delivering advanced FPGA solutions through cutting-edge technology and over 20 years of trusted collaboration.
Trust Fidus, experts with Altera-based solutions
With expert knowledge and experience in Altera (formerly Intel) Agilex® FPGA and SoC, we meet performance, power, and thermal requirements efficiently. From concept to development, testing, and bring-up, trust us to deliver fully functional and robust embedded system designs.
Why Choose Fidus for Altera Custom Design and Development Services?
- Exclusive Access and Training: As an Altera Gold Partner , Fidus receives exclusive training, certification, and early access to tools, IP, and new silicon. This means our clients benefit from the latest technologies and methodologies, ensuring optimal design and implementation.
- Proven Track Record: Fidus has a history of delivering successful projects involving Intel technologies. Our expertise spans various industries and applications, ensuring we can meet the unique needs of each client.
- Comprehensive Project Support: From RTL FPGA application development using Intel® Quartus® Prime Design Software to hardware development and embedded software application development, Fidus offers end-to-end solutions that ensure project success.
- Custom Solutions: Our team excels in tailoring solutions to meet specific project requirements. Whether it’s high-speed transceivers, PCIe interfaces, or complex DSP processing, we provide innovative and efficient designs.
- Enhanced Market Responsiveness: With our North American expertise and rapid project turnaround, Fidus ensures swift project completion and enhanced market responsiveness, helping clients achieve their goals faster.
Discover Altera's Comprehensive FPGA Solutions
Get the flexibility you need and accelerate your innovation with a broad portfolio of programmable logic products including FPGAs, CPLDs, Structured ASICs, acceleration platforms, software, and IP. Altera® FPGAs offer a wide variety of configurable embedded SRAM, high-speed transceivers, high-speed I/Os, logic blocks, and routing. Built-in intellectual property (IP) combined with outstanding software tools lower FPGA development time, power, and cost.
Our collaboration with Altera grants us access to a broad range of programmable logic products, including:
- Stratix® Series: Enables you to deliver high-end performance, state-of-the-art products.
- Arria® Series: Delivers Intel performance and power efficiency in the midrange.
- MAX® Series: Featuring a unique, non-volatile architecture and delivers the market’s best value.
- Cyclone® FPGAs and SoC FPGAs: Built to meet your low-power, cost-sensitive design needs.
- Agilex™ FPGA and SoC Portfolio: Built on Intel 10nm SuperFin and Intel 7 technology, enables customized acceleration.
Explore the Agilex Family for Unmatched FPGA Performance
The Agilex family of FPGAs represents Altera’s latest innovation, delivering unparalleled performance and flexibility. From Agilex 9 with the industry’s fastest data converters for radar and military-aerospace applications, to Agilex 7’s superior performance for data centers and defense, Agilex 5’s AI-infused fabric for edge applications, and the upcoming Agilex 3 for low-power functions in cloud and communications, these FPGAs meet a wide range of needs.
Mastering Altera Design Challenges with Fidus
Our team is equipped with the skills and tools to handle the most demanding design challenges, ensuring efficient and innovative Altera solutions:
- Signal and Power Integrity (beyond 112G/PAM4)
- FPGA and ASIC RTL design
- High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) applications
- Flexibility, performance-based clock and timing subsystems
- Thermal simulations and solutions
- Embedded Software (e.g., Board Support Packages, drivers)
- Verification using UVM (Universal Verification Methodology)
- Complex signal DSP processing
Case Studies: Overcoming Design Challenges with Altera
Wireless Communications System with Stratix 10 Devices
- Overview: Developed an O-RAN Fronthaul Gateway with Intel Stratix 10 device, using CPRI IP, ORAN IP.
- Impact: Deployed 5G radio head antenna, translating CPRI to ORAN with FPGA implementation on the Line Card DU.
- Fidus’ Services Used: FPGA design and Verification
High-Performance Digitizers for Test and Measurement
- Overview: Development of Channelizer Block (multi-channel) including Model Development, RTL Development, Filter Design, Verification and Timing Closure.
- Impact: Leveraging Agilex 7, Quartus, HDL coder, MatLab, Python and numPy, Fidus was able to complete the design in 6 weeks. Value in time to market.
- Fidus’ Services Used: FPGA design
Oscilloscope Design Utilizing Cyclone 10 GX
- Overview: The project involved designing an oscilloscope for a logic analyzer using Cyclone 10 GX. Fidus managed FPGA implementation, JESD204B customization, design, coding, simulation, build, timing closure, and lab testing.
- Impact: Fidus kept the project on track despite limited resources, achieving higher performance for cost-sensitive applications. The project entered the market early, capturing revenue sooner and reducing development costs.
- Fidus’ Services Used: FPGA design, Hardware, Embedded Software, Signal Integrity, Layout
Altera Vendor Parts We’ve Worked With
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Agilex FPGA and SoC Portfolio
Agilex 9 FPGAs and SoCs
Agilex 7 FPGAs and SoCs
Agilex 5 FPGAs and SoCs
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Stratix Series
Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs
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Arria Series
Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs
Arria V FPGAs and SoCs
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Max Series
Max 10 FPGAs
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SOMs
Kria SOM (K26)
Trenz SOMs
Enclustra SOMs
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Cyclone FPGAs and SoCs
Cyclone 10 FPGAs
Cyclone V FPGAs and SoCs
Cyclone IV FPGAs
Altera Resources and Tools
- Transceiver usage and implementation
- Clocking
- FPGA functional block design and HPS communication
- Memory subsystem design and implementation
- Signal and power integrity
- High-speed (32Gbps+) PCB layout
- Thermal assessment and solutions
- Requirements definition
- Intel® SoC device selection
- Partitioning HPS and FPGA functions
- Power system budgeting, design, and sequencing
- BSP and driver design, U-Boot/Linux
- GStreamer implementations and customization
- HPS implementation and interfacing
- Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Builder
- Intel® High-Level Synthesis (HLS) Compiler
- Quartus® Prime Design Software
- Intel® FPGA AI Suite
- Intel® Advanced Link Analyzer
- Power Analysis Tools
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