40-nm FPGAs and the Defense Electronic Design Organization

With Altera's introduction of 40-nm FPGAs, the design domains of military electronics that can be addressed with Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs) are growing. This growth is a response to military integration requirements, as well as a function of the rising cost of new ASIC starts in successive generations of silicon geometry. Functions that were once restricted to ASIC designs or microprocessor systems now benefit from the shorter design cycle times and simpler hardware verification processes of an FPGA.