Altera Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets programmable logic devices (PLD), structured application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC), pre-defined design building blocks, and associated development tools. Its PLDs, which consist of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) and complex programmable logic devices (CPLD) are semiconductor integrated circuits manufactured as standard chips that can be programmed to perform logic functions in electronic systems; and HardCopy structured ASIC ...