Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) since the 1983 invention of the world's first programmable logic devices, has been the leader in innovative custom logic solutions. Today, more than 2,600 employees located in 19 countries to provide more creative custom logic solutions for clients in various industries, from power to help them solve the problems until the cost of performance of these industries, including automotive, broadcast, computer and storage, consumer, industrial, medical, military, test and measurement, wireless and fixed-line and so on. Altera comprehensive product portfolio not only devices, but also includes a fully integrated software development tools, general purpose embedded processors, optimized intellectual property (IP) cores, reference designs examples, and a variety of development kits.