Altera will offer the group its insights on programmable logic technologies that enable systems designers to use FPGAs, SoCs, IP, and design tools for embedded vision applications in the industrial, surveillance, automotive, military, broadcasting and consumer sectors.

“Altera is joining the alliance to propose solutions to address head-on the performance bottlenecks of CPUs, and to continue to offer new IP through the end-to-end vision processing pipeline,” said Dan McNamara, Vice President of the Industrial, Automotive, and Broadcast Business Unit at Altera.

“With our industry lead in OpenCL development tools, as well as a strong, evolving ecosystem of vision processing technologies, we are joining the alliance to facilitate further innovations in the embedded vision industry.”

Altera FPGAs support various sensor interfaces, compression standards, transmission protocols, and custom video analytics, and enable systems designers to achieve higher performance in their products with hardware acceleration. Altera allows integration of multiple devices (CPU, DSP, ASSP) into one FPGA, keeping board space, power consumption and design complexity down.

“Embedded vision allows machines to see and understand the world around them, enabling them to be more responsive, safer and more capable,” said Jeff Bier, founder of the Embedded Vision Alliance.

“Altera is an innovator in technologies that enable engineers to incorporate visual intelligence into their product designs. I welcome Altera to the Embedded Vision Alliance, and look forward to collaborating to advance the Alliance’s goal of empowering product creators to use embedded vision technology.”