Altera targets low-latency AI edge applications with new FPGA products

Support for Agilex 3 and other Agilex product lines is available through Altera’s free Quartus software suite. Quartus is a design software suite for programmable logic devices. It allows engineers to design, analyze, optimize, and program Intel FPGAs, CPLDs, and SoCs using system-level design techniques and advanced place-and-route algorithms.

For AI developers, Altera has upgraded its FPGA AI Suite to release 25.1, adding support for Agilex 3 and Agilex 5 FPGA development for AI inferencing using familiar industry-standard frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch along with OpenVino. “We’re just making it easier for our embedded customers to deploy more AI machine learning into their embedded platforms with FPGAs inside,” said Rivera.

In other Agilex news, the first wave of Agilex 5 FPGAs E-Series devices are now fully qualified and released for high-volume production. Compared to the Agilex 5 D-Series FPGAs, the Agilex 5 E-Series FPGAs are optimized for more power-sensitive applications that require high-performance with smaller form factors and logic densities.

Altera is also expanding the MAX 10 FPGA family with new package options. The MAX 10 10M40 and 10M50 product lines are now offered in variable pitch BGA packages. This new package option significantly increases the value of these highly integrated devices by reducing form factor while maintaining a high I/O count, resulting in a lower total cost of ownership for users the company claims.