Texas
Instruments and Altera Partner to Deliver
Low-Cost PCI Express San Jose,
Calif., March 15, 2006—Texas Instruments
Incorporated (TI) (NYSE: TXN) and Altera Corporation
(NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced the availability
of a low-cost, PCI-SIG-compliant solution
that reduces the cost and accelerates the
development of PCI Express-based systems.
Ideal for video cards, data acquisition, test
and network equipment, and various embedded
applications, this robust, easy-to-use offering
includes TI’s XIO1100 PCI Express x1
physical layer (PHY) chip, Altera’s
low-cost CycloneTM II FPGAs and PCI Express
x1 MegaCore® intellectual property (IP)
function...
