Altera Begins Shipping MAX II Devices, Industry's Lowest-Cost CPLDs

Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR), the market leader in complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs), today announced it has begun shipping the first member of its MAX® II device family, the EPM1270 device. Based on Altera’s groundbreaking look-up table (LUT)-based CPLD architecture, the MAX II family is half the cost and consumes only one-tenth the power of previous MAX generations, while maintaining the same single-chip, non-volatile and ease-of-use characteristics of the original MAX series. In addition, the new family delivers four times the density and more than twice the performance of prior-generation MAX CPLDs. Engineers designing for high-volume, price-sensitive markets can leverage the MAX II device family’s cost and performance advantages to replace more expensive and less flexible low-density ASICs and ASSPs often used for critical system control functions.