| Table 1. Altera Partners Programs |
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| Altera Consultants Alliance Program (ACAP®) partners and Certified Design Center (CDC) premier partners are independent contractors that are experts with Altera products and design tools. Their expertise can benefit any design team for design success and reduced time-to-market. |
  | Altera established the Altera Commitment to Cooperative Engineering Solutions (ACCESS) Program® to recognize the importance of supporting industry-leading design tools. Altera and its EDA partners collaborate closely through the ACCESS Program to deliver a flexible, seamless design flow for creating system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) designs. Members of the ACCESS Program have a high level of commitment to support Altera devices and agree to continued product support aligned with Altera's product roadmap. |
 Â | Altera and Altera Megafunction Partners Program (AMPPSM) partners offer a large selection of off-the-shelf as well as customizable megafunctions for Altera devices. Designers can implement these parameterized blocks of intellectual property (IP) easily to reduce design and test time. |
 | AMPP software partners provide direct access to the embedded software IP required for designing complex processor-based SOPC solutions. AMPP partners have been selected carefully based on their demonstrated ARM®-based software design expertise, as well as their familiarity with Altera design tools and Excalibur™ embedded processor solutions.
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| Development Kits | Time-to-market is critical—to jump-start projects, Altera and its worldwide partners offer a wide range of development boards to facilitate development and verification of SOPC designs. |
 | Altera Technical Training enables engineers worldwide to receive high-quality training on Altera's products. Certified members of the Altera Technical Training program receive information regularly from Altera to ensure that they have the most up-to-date tools and knowledge to teach Altera's latest technologies. |
| Altera University Program | The Altera University Program provides colleges and universities all over the world with access to state-of-the-art development software and programmable logic devices, development tools, and complete design kits. |
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