Product category: Programmable Logic Devices
News Release from: Altera Europe | Subject: EPM1270
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 22 July 2004
Frugal CPLD leads new generation
Altera has begun shipping the first member of its MAX II device family, the EPM1270.
Altera has begun shipping the first member of its MAX II device family, the EPM1270 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, nonvolatile and ease-of-use characteristics of the original MAX series
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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