PR Newswire
Aug 30, 2005 08:00 ET

Altera Hosts High-Speed Serial Interconnect Seminar With Industry Experts

SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- What:

Altera Corporation (NASDAQ:ALTR) is hosting its second High-Speed Serial Interconnect Seminar aimed at helping designers understand the complexities of high-speed serial link interconnects. Leading industry experts will discuss how to select and design with connectors, transceivers and boards for multi- gigabit serial data. Kevin M. Roselle, CTO of Bayside Design, will deliver the keynote presentation, "Right First-Time Design for Multi-Gigabit Serial Links." As an expert in all aspects of high-speed design, Mr. Roselle will discuss some of the challenges encountered when designing channels for multi-gigabit operation. Presentations will also be delivered by industry experts from Sanmina, Teradyne, Tyco and Altera. The Altera presentation will highlight key features of their upcoming Stratix(R) II GX FPGA family with embedded transceivers.

Agenda:
September 22, 2005
9:00 a.m. Pacific Time (Breakfast/Registration 8:30 a.m.
Pacific Time)

9:00 a.m. Right First-Time Design for Multi-Gigabit Serial
Links
Kevin M. Roselle
CTO
Bayside Design

10:00 a.m. Silicon-Driven Signal Integrity Tools
Jim Tavacoli
Senior Director of Component Product Planning
Altera Corporation

11:00 a.m. Design for System Scalability From 622 Mbps to 6.25 Gbps
Gautam Patel
Signal Integrity Engineer
Teradyne

11:45 a.m. Looking Ahead to 10 Gbps to Understand How to Design at
6.25 Gbps & Lower
John D'Ambrosia
Manager of Semiconductor Relations
Tyco Electronics, Tyco

12:30 p.m. High-Speed PCB Design Techniques for AdvancedTCA
Barry Kirkorian
Product Manager
Sanmina-SCI Corporation

For more information or to register for the event, please visit: www.altera.com/highspeedserial.

Where: Crowne Plaza, Worcester
10 Lincoln Square
Worcester, MA 01608

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/