Future Engineers Provided Hands-On Learning Experience in
Programmable Logic Technology
Altera
Corporation (NASDAQ:ALTR) today announced the opening of the new
Peking University and Altera International Limited Joint EDA/SOPC Lab at
the Peking University School of Software and Microelectronics (Wuxi),
Jiangsu Province, China. This is the 66th Joint Lab and
Training Center (JLTC) that Altera has established with major
universities in China. As part of Altera's worldwide University Program,
the JLTCs are equipped with the latest Altera® Quartus® II
design software and a set of Altera DE2-70 development
kits to aid professors in conducting hands-on training with students.
The university will use the lab for courses in digital logic circuits,
HDL language, computer principles, principles of television, and modern
digital system design featuring Altera's FPGA development environment.
The lab will also be used to help design the electronics curriculum used
for graduate and postgraduate studies.
"With the establishment of this joint lab and with the cooperation in
teaching, project researching and training, we will be able to take full
advantage of the Altera relationship with Peking University,” said
Professor Xin Zhang, dean of the school of Software and Microelectronics
at Peking University. “This new lab boosts our universities enterprise
cooperation to a new depth, which will enable us to make more
contributions to the development of China SOPC."
In conjunction with the opening of the Peking University and Altera
International Limited Joint EDA/SOPC Lab, Altera has invited key
professors from the other 65 JLTCs to attend the opening ceremony and
participate in a three-day training on Altera products and technology.
"Through our University
Program, we cultivate designers and support innovation around the
world by working with professors and lecturers to help teach students
about digital technology," said Stephen Brown, worldwide director of the
University Program for Altera Corporation. "Universities and students in
China are very important for the future of the electronics industry, and
we are proud to have a world-leading educational program in China.
Altera invests heavily in universities and students worldwide, and has
helped to create hundreds of university labs in a number of countries
over the past few years."
Altera provides a variety of teaching materials, including a full
commercial version of the state-of-the-art Quartus II software tools,
teaching hardware in the form of laboratory boards, tutorials that
introduce students and lecturers to Altera's tools and hardware, and
"ready-to-teach" laboratory exercises that can be employed in
university-level digital logic and computer organization courses. A
hardware donation program helps institutions that have qualified to
equip their teaching laboratories at minimal cost, and software and
intellectual property (IP) is donated by Altera. In addition to
providing support tools to professors, instructors and lecturers at the
lowest cost, students can take advantage of many free offerings, and
also use University Program resources to support what they are learning
in school. These resources are available at www.altera.com/education/univ/unv-index.html.
About Altera
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to rapidly and cost-effectively innovate, differentiate and win in their
markets. Find out more about Altera's FPGA,
CPLD
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