Evatronix Joins Altera Consultants Alliance Program (ACAP®)

Bielsko-Biala, Poland - Evatronix S.A., Evatronix, the IP cores provider and a pioneer in HDL-based electronic design market in Eastern-Europe, announced today that it has signed a partnership agreement with Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR), the leading programmable logic device (PLD) supplier, and since then has become a member of the Altera Consulting Alliance Program (ACAP®).

Evatronix began using the Altera PLDs in the late 90s. with Flex® family, having started from relatively simple designs of approximately 20 000 gates. At present Evatronix is working with Apex® & Acex® families PLDs in the range of hundreds of thousands gates. It enables the firm to provide the customers with solutions in time which is vital to keep pace with today's market dynamics. The first contact Evatronix had with Altera concerned Altera Megafunction Partner Program (AMPP®) which the company joined through its American distributor, CAST, Inc. (www.cast-inc.com).

Being the ACAP® partner Evatronix wishes to enable its customers and Altera users to shorten time-to-market with innovative electronic products by offering them virtual electronic components (IP cores) and by supporting them with related design services. Moreover, Evatronix offers its expertise to those who want to take advantage of higher density Altera PLDs designed with standard HDLs and synthesis.

Wojciech Sakowski, president of Evatronix, said: "We are pleased that Altera has acknowledged our experience in using its PLDs in digital system design and perceives Evatronix as a competent design partner. Being the first ACAP consultant in Eastern Europe, we feel obliged to promote adoption of FPGA-based design solutions within electronic design commonly in our region".

About ACAP

The Altera Consultants Alliance Program (ACAP) is specifically designed to provide expert design assistance to users of Altera PLDs and help them quickly get their products to market by means of the carefully selected and trained group of service providers. ACAP consultants provide a unique combination of segment knowledge and competence in Altera PLDs, which makes them effective at solving specific problems and meeting designers' time-to-market needs in real-times.

About Altera

Altera Corporation, The Programmable Solutions Company®, was founded in 1983 and is a leading supplier of programmable logic devices (PLDs). Altera's CMOS-based PLDs are user-programmable semiconductor chips that enhance flexibility and reduce time-to-market for companies in the communications, computer peripheral, and industrial markets. By using high-performance devices, software development tools, and sophisticated intellectual property cores, system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) solutions can be created with embedded processors, memory, and other complex logic together on a single PLD. Altera common stock is traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol ALTR.

More information on Altera is available on the Internet at www.altera.com.