Altera Ships Industry's Highest Density FPGA Featuring 340K Logic Elements

Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced availability of the industrys highest density FPGA. A member of Alteras 65-nm Stratix® III family, the EP3SL340 features an industry-leading 340K logic elements (LEs), supports DDR3 memory with interface speeds in excess of 1067 Mbps, and offers the lowest power consumption of any high-density, high-performance programmable logic device (PLD). Stratix III FPGAs are an ideal solution for a broad range of applications in a variety of end markets, including communications, computer and storage and military/aerospace.