Date: 30th Jun 2011

Altera and RV-VLSI to setup a FPGA/SoPC lab in Bangalore

Altera Corporation is partnering with Bangalore based VLSI training institute RV-VLSI in investing to set up a Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) / System-on-a-Programmable-Chip (SOPC) Lab centre at RV-VLSI Bangalore with a joint investment of US $ 1 million.

"Altera is pleased to announce the establishment of a new Joint Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) / System-on-a-Programmable-Chip (SOPC) Lab centre at RV-VLSI Bangalore, towards the goal of supporting engineering education in India. The opening of this centre with RV-VLSI reaffirms our commitment to work with Indian universities and we hope that it will enable students to have improved access to the latest technologies that are used in the industry," Dr. Stephen Brown Director - Altera Worldwide University Program, Altera Corporation, USA.

"I am very excited that we were able to work with RV-VLSI to arrive at this partnership. Altera is committed to promote the cause of technology based education, meet customer's training requirements on FPGA, Programmable logic solutions and build the semiconductor ecosystem in India. I firmly believe this partnership will address the needs of industry and academia and will bridge the Industry academia gap. We look forward to extend the necessary support required to promote Altera technology in engineering design industry and university campuses in India," said Ganghataran Gopal, Country Manager, Altera India.