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19-645: The Analogue Nt Mini was announced in August 2016. The system cost $ 449.99 at launch, with the first consoles being shipped on January 23, 2017. Further units were shipped in September, 2017. The final production run of the Analogue Nt Mini, restyled the Analogue Nt Mini Noir Edition occurred in 2020. Delays in shipping this edition lead this console to notably experience a significant increase in price in

38-583: A Famicom expansion port, and a Famicom microphone input. It has two cartridge slots, one for NES cartridges and another for Famicom cartridges. The Nt Mini is compatible with most NES expansion peripherals like the NES Zapper Light Gun, R.O.B. and the Power Pad. It is also compatible with Famicom expansion devices like the Famicom Disk System and Datach Joint ROM System . Like its predecessor,

57-412: A chip FPGAs. The company was founded in 1983 by semiconductor veterans Rodney Smith, Robert Hartmann, James Sansbury, and Paul Newhagen with $ 500,000 in seed money . The name of the company was a play on "alterable", the type of chips the company created. In 1988, Altera became a public company via an initial public offering (IPO). On December 28, 2015, the company was acquired by Intel and became

76-497: A chip FPGAs based upon a hard ARM Cortex-A53 quad-core processor system. The Agilex 5 SoC product family are system on a chip FPGAs based upon a hard ARM Cortex-A76 / A55 quad-core processor system. Altera offers the Nios V embedded soft processor cores based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture. Previously Altera had offered their own proprietary Nios II embedded soft processor,

95-510: A chip. These SoCs are targeted for use in wireless communications, industrial, video surveillance, automotive and medical equipment markets. With these SoCs devices, users were able to create custom field-programmable SoC variants for power, board space, performance and cost optimization. Cyclone V SoC, Arria V SoC and Arria 10 SoC product families are system on a chip FPGAs based upon a hard ARM Cortex-A9 dual-core processor system. Stratix 10 SoC and Agilex 7 SoC product families are system on

114-476: A newly formed business unit called Programmable Solutions Group (PSG). In October 2023, Intel announced it would be spinning off PSG into a separate company at the start of 2024, while maintaining majority ownership and intending to seek an IPO within three years. In February 2024, Intel announced that the newly independent company would reestablish the Altera name and branding. The main product lines from Altera are

133-712: Is a brand covering several families of FPGA products developed by Altera , and is the branding introduced in 2019 during the Intel era. The initial family of Agilex FPGAs (now rebranded as Agilex 7) began shipping in 2019 and are built using Intel 10nm silicon process. Agilex FPGAs are typically programmed in hardware description languages such as VHDL or Verilog , using the Intel Quartus Prime computer software. Higher level design languages, such as SYCL , are supported as well. Intel Agilex FPGAs initially focused on performance applications such as data center processing, but

152-521: The Agilex FPGA product lines, and their predecessors: the high-end Stratix series, mid-range Arria series, and lower-cost Cyclone series; as well as the MAX series non-volatile FPGAs. Altera and its partners offer an array of semiconductor intellectual property cores that serve as building blocks that design engineers can drop into their system designs to perform specific functions. IP cores eliminate some of

171-511: The Agilex brand was broadened to cover additional FPGA families by using a numerical suffix. Agilex 7 FPGAs are a family of high-performance FPGAs with a focus on delivering industry-leading logic fabric and I/O speeds and targeted at bandwidth- and compute-intensive applications. The Agilex 7 SoC FPGA variants include an ARM Cortex-A53 quad core hard processor system. The Agilex 5 family are FPGAs and SoC FPGAs with lower power and logic densities than

190-510: The Cyclone V SoC devices, which have a dual-core ARM architecture Cortex-A9 processor system with FPGA logic on a single chip. These devices integrated FPGAs with full hard processor systems based around ARM architecture onto a single device. As of 2024, the majority of Altera's FPGA devices are available as an SoC variant with an ARM hard processor system integrated with the FPGA as a single system on

209-740: The European Union due to a larger trade dispute later in 2020. The 2020 Nt Mini Noir uses more advanced FPGA hardware than the 2017 Nt Mini and the Nt Mini Noir's firmware is not backwards compatible with the Nt Mini. The Nt Mini uses an Altera Cyclone V FPGA processor. Kevin Horton was the lead developer in programming the FPGA. The Nt Mini features a 1080p HDMI , analog video ( RGB , Component , S-Video , & Composite ), analog audio (48 kHz 16-bit ), four original NES -style controller ports,

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228-586: The Famicom Disk System, Nintendo VS. System , Intellivision , Genesis and adds an SPC player and a Mandelbrot set viewer. Altera Altera Corporation is a manufacturer of programmable logic devices (PLDs) headquartered in San Jose, California . It was founded in 1983 and acquired by Intel in 2015 before becoming independent once again in 2024 as a company focused on development of Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology and system on

247-726: The Freescale ColdFire v1 core, and the ARM Cortex-M1 processor. All of Altera's devices are supported by a common design environment, the Quartus Prime design software, which is a multi-platform development environment that includes various tools needed to design FPGAs, SoC FPGAs, and CPLDs. In May 2013, Altera made available SDK for OpenCL, enabling software programmers to access the high-performance capabilities of programmable logic devices. Altera also support high-level synthesis using SYCL extensions to ANSI C/C++. In 1984,

266-857: The Nt Mini's enclosure is made of an aluminum alloy uni-body enclosure manufactured from 6061 aluminum . Game selection occurs via cartridge or, through "jailbreak" firmware by an SD card slot. New firmware can also be loaded using the SD card slot. "Jailbreak" firmware allows for loading games through ROMs and also allows the Nt Mini to simulate other systems such as Game Boy , Game Boy Color , Master System , Game Gear , ColecoVision , Atari 2600 , Atari 7800 , Fairchild Channel F , Magnavox Odyssey 2 , Watara Supervision , Gamate , GameKing , Entex Adventure Vision , Arcadia 2001 , Mega Duck , RCA Studio II , VTech CreatiVision and VideoBrain Family Computer . The Nt Mini Noir's jailbreak firmware additionally supports

285-742: The brand has been expanded to include several new series of Agilex FPGAs which have different characteristics, such as lower power and lower logic densities, in order to fit an even wider range of applications. As a result, the Agilex brand is combined with a numerical suffix to organize various FPGA product series into different families of FPGAs and SoC FPGAs. The Agilex 9 family are FPGAs targeted at Direct RF applications and include wideband data converters with sample rates up to 64Gsps and medium-band data converters with hi-fidelity performance. The initial family of Agilex FPGAs and SoC FPGAs which began shipping in 2019 were rebranded as Agilex 7 in January 2023 as

304-474: The company formed a long-running design partnership with Intel . In 1994, Altera acquired the PLD business of Intel for $ 50 million. In February 2013, Altera announced an agreement to use Intel 's foundry services to produce its 14-nm node for the future manufacturing of its FPGAs, based on Intel's 14-nm tri-gate transistor technology, in place of Altera's ongoing agreement with TSMC . The Stratix 10 product family

323-473: The newly independent company would reestablish the Altera name and branding. On June 21, 2006, after an investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission , the company restated its financial results from 1996 to 2005 to correct accounting errors related to options backdating . The chief financial officer of the company resigned. Altera filed a petition to overturn related regulations but was, under Intel, denied in 2020. Agilex Agilex

342-518: The time-consuming tasks of creating every block in a design from scratch. In 2000, Altera acquired Designpro and Northwest Logic, providers of IP cores, in order to expand its design capabilities and move towards delivery of complete system-on-chip solutions. Beginning in December 2012, the company announced the shipment of its first system on a chip FPGA devices using a fully depleted silicon on insulator (FDSOI) 28nm chip manufacturing process. These are

361-512: Was the first such product line. In December 2015, Intel acquired Altera for $ 16.7 billion in cash. Altera became Intel's newly formed business unit called the Programmable Solutions Group (PSG). In October 2023, Intel announced it would be spinning off PSG into a separate company at the start of 2024, while maintaining majority ownership and intending to seek an IPO within three years. In February 2024, Intel announced that

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