On this episode of Embedded Insiders, Dr. Konstantin Kloppstech, CTO at digid, joins the podcast to explain the benefits and breakthroughs his company's been able to achieve with nanoscale sensing. We discuss the miniaturization of sensors in real-world environments, reliability and durability concerns, and collaborations. 

Those of us who have been around the embedded space for a while are pretty familiar with Altera’s history in the programmable logic space. Without going through the details, it’s a fairly rocky past. 

The company now claims that we should put the past in the rearview mirror and focus not just on what the company is offering today, but what’s on its roadmap. They feel that the relationships they’ve made and the inroads they continue to make put them in the perfect position to provide the products its customers want and need. 

I wanted to hear this story right from the horse’s mouth, so I spoke to Altera’s President and CEO, Raghib Hussain, on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

Agilex 5 FPGA D-Series devices deliver high performance, low power, and small form factors for mid-range FPGA applications, delivering better performance per watt.

Altera will be in Hall 5, Booth 5-329 at embedded world Germany where it is planning to highlight how its Agilex FPGAs are engineered to meet the real-time demands of physical AI systems. Altera’s adaptable FPGA platforms deliver scalable acceleration from multi-sensor ingestion and AI inference to real-time control. Booth demonstrations will show how FPGAs power multi-sensor processing, AI-driven perception, and low-latency decision-making at the edge.

Highlights from Altera at Innovators Day 2025 included a 2.5× density boost in Agilex 5 D-Series devices, faster DDR5/LPDDR5 memory interfaces, and the introduction of Visual Designer Studio in Quartus Prime v25.3 to streamline design integration. Altera revealed significant updates to its Agilex FPGA portfolio and design tools.

This white paper presents a detailed comparison between Altera’s Agilex™ 3 FPGAs and competitive power and cost optimized FPGAs, highlighting Agilex 3’s performance, power efficiency, and architectural advantages for embedded systems.

Intel this week announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell 51 percent of Altera to Silver Lake, a private equity firm that's been involved in Dell, AirBnB, and many other technology deals for more than 15 years. But what does it mean?