PR Newswire
Apr 17, 2006 08:00 ET

Altera to Showcase Industry-First Broadcast Solutions at NAB2006

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
What: Altera Corporation (NASDAQ:ALTR) will showcase its portfolio of industry-first programmable solutions for the digital broadcast industry at the upcoming National Association of Broadcasters (NAB2006) event in Las Vegas. Visitors to Altera's booth #C8112 will see demonstrations of:

* The industry's first complete FPGA-based Video over IP reference design with Pro-MPEG forward error correction (FEC) implementation

* The only FPGA-based broadcast quality audio sample rate converter available today

* The first FPGA-based 3-Gbyte SDI IP on the market and SDI, HD-SDI IP

* Altera's new FPGA-based Video and Image Processing Suite

When: April 22-27, 2006

Where: Booth C8112
Las Vegas Convention Center
Las Vegas, Nevada

Additional Information:

Visitors to Altera's booth will also see demonstrations from
several Altera partners including:

* ATEME-H.264 HD broadcast quality encoder
* Let It Wave-Breakthrough SD to HD up converter
* Commsonic-Scalable and optimized DVB-S2 and J.83
modulators
* Arcos-Scalable, multistandard video distribution

NAB2006 attendees will also witness Altera's technology at work in the following exhibits:

Booth
Company Product Type(s) Product(s) Number

Arcos Multimedia Home Video C8112
Technologies transmission units Network - C
for HD and SD home Home Video
distribution over Network - S
cable and satellite

Ateme Real-time SD & HD ATE4000 SU256
MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 H.264 HD broadcast
encoding technology quality encoder

Ciprico Storage solutions MediaVault U320-R SL4987
for HD video content MediaVault U320-S
creation MediaVault U320-RX
MediaVault 4212

DekTec ASI/SDI USB-2 DTU-245 SU3009,
Adapters, DVB-C, DTA-110 C3810
DVB-S, DVB-T DTA-160
modulator cards,
DVB-IP Gateway

Doremi Labs HDTV disk recorders, V1-UHD Uncompressed C5712
HD-MPEG2 encoders HDTV Disk Recorder
and players, portable V1-HD Compressed
test generator HDTV Disk Recorder
HDG-10 HD-SDI & SDI
Test Generator
Nugget HD MPEG2
Video Player
ORCA MPEG-2 Encoder

Euphonix Audio Workstation MC Intelligent N1002
Control Surface Application
Controller

EVS Broadcast High-Definition XT[2] Video C3230
Equipment Video Server Production Server

Exavio Video Streaming ExaMax 9000 SL585
Server

Inlet Real-Time Encoder Fathom SL3803
Technologies for Windows Media
High-Definition
Video

KTech IP Gateway DVM-2000 SU2247
Telecommunications Gigabit Ethernet DVM-2400
Decoder DVM-150E
Digital TV Decoder HAC-1000
IEEE 1394 to ASI Xtreme-1000 8VSB
Converter Digital Translator

Let It Wave Upconverter for Let It Wave Video C11028
deinterlacing, Upconverter
scaling, noise
removal, and
enhancement

NVISION Broadcast Router NV8288 Digital Video SU1414
Systems Router
NV7512 Audio Router
NV5256 Machine Control
Router

Panasonic Broadcast P2 Solid State SPC-AJ700 C2518
Recording Camcorders

Pixelmetrix Digital television DVB-T LIF C6616
modulation analyzers
for terrestrial,
satellite, and cable

T-VIPS Video Gateways TVG410 C11427
TVG420

Tiernan, a Radyne HD/SD video encoders HE4000 HD and SD SU2033
Company and decoders Encoder
TE6000A SD Encoder

W&W Communications Broadcast-quality Hardware H.264 SU5205
video codecs Codecs

For additional information on Altera at NAB2006 or to register for the event, please visit www.altera.com/nab06.

NOTE: Altera, The Programmable Solutions Company, the stylized Altera logo, specific device designations and all other words that are identified as trademarks and/or service marks are, unless noted otherwise, the trademarks and service marks of Altera Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. All other product or service names are the property of their respective holder.

Source: Altera Corporation

Web site: http://www.altera.com/