April 6, 2001 – San Jose, CA – Altera Corp. and Nuvation Labs Corp. have partnered through the Altera Consultant Alliance Program.

Altera is a supplier of programmable logic devices; Nuvation is an embedded systems engineering design firm. The agreement gives Altera customers access to Nuvation’s engineering expertise for the rapid development of programmable devices from concept, through design and synthesis and into testing and integration.

As complexity of technology increases, it becomes mission-critical for companies to access immediate embedded system design expertise, Altera said. Altera created the Alliance Program to identify and promote superior engineering consultants based on their knowledge of Altera’s device architectures and tools as well as their proven ability to accelerate complex PLD design schedules.