Join Altera and Leading Industry Experts at the High-Speed Serial Interconnect Seminar

Join Altera and Leading Industry Experts at the High-Speed Serial Interconnect Seminar SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- What: Altera Corporation (NASDAQ:ALTR) will be hosting the High- Speed Serial Interconnect Seminar to help designers overcome the challenges of building high-speed serial link interconnects for next-generation communications and computer systems. Attendees will learn about the latest principles, design rules, tools, and technology options from leading industry experts such as Dr. Eric Bogatin, the president of Bogatin Enterprises, and CTO of IDI. A lecturer, and author of four books and over 200 papers on signal integrity and interconnect design, Dr. Bogatin will deliver the keynote address entitled "A Designer's Survival Guide to High-Speed Serial Link Interconnects." Presentations will also be delivered by industry experts from Tyco, Teradyne, Sanmina-SCI and Altera addressing selection and design processes pertinent to connectors, transceivers, chip- to-chip communication, protocols, and boards for multi-gigabit serial data rates. Speakers: Dr. Eric Bogatin President Bogatin Enterprises, and CTO IDI John D'Ambrosia Manager of Semiconductor Relations Tyco Electronics, Tyco Gautam Patel Signal Integrity Engineer Teradyne Jim Tavacoli Senior Director of Component Product Planning Altera Corporation Franz Gisin Director of Backplane Design Technology and Signal Integrity Design Sanmina-SCI When: February 4, 2005 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time (Breakfast/Registration 8:30 a.m. Pacific Time) For more information or to register for the event, please visit: http://www.altera.com/highspeedserial Where: The Westin Santa Clara 5101 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95054-1132 Contact: Bruce Fienberg Altera Corporation (408) 544-6397 newsroom@altera.com Altera, The Programmable Solutions Company, the stylized Altera logo, specific device designations and all other words that are identified as trademarks and/or service marks are, unless noted otherwise, the trademarks and service marks of Altera Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. All other product or service names are the property of their respective holder. Source: Altera Corporation CONTACT: Bruce Fienberg of Altera Corporation, +1-408-544-6397 or newsroom@altera.com Web site: http://www.altera.com/ ------- Profile: International Entertainment