Altera Corporation has been delivering industry-leading custom-logic solutions to customers since inventing the world's first reprogrammable logic device in 1984. Today, more than 3,000 employees in 19 countries are providing even more ingenious custom-logic solutions which include FPGAs, SoCs, CPLDs and power management products. Altera's broad portfolio of custom-logic solutions address a wide variety of system-level challenges, including performance, power consumption, total cost of ownership, board area, time-to-market and design team productivity. Altera products are used by industry-leading corporations in many different industries, including automotive, broadcast, computer and storage, consumer, industrial, medical, military, test and measurement, wireless and wireline. In addition to custom-logic silicon and power management solutions, Altera's portfolio includes fully integrated software development tools, versatile embedded processors, optimized intellectual property (IP) cores, reference designs examples and development kits.