Altera Corporation was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. The company’s annual revenue in 2013 was $1.7 billion and they employ over 3,000 people across 20 countries. Altera specializes in programmable logic devices (PLDs) or integrated circuits manufactured without an embedded function.One reason why Altera is distinct in the FPGA market is its range of products specifically developed to meet the needs of the aerospace and military markets. Altera boasts the capability to provide high-performing digital signal processing (DSP) chains within a reasonable SWaP (size, weight, and power). Their FPGAs feature enhanced off-the-shelf silicon with high tolerance to humidity, shock, and vibration, as well as ‘military temperature range qualified’ devices (i.e. viable in extreme temperatures ranging from -55 degree Celsius to 125 degree Celsius). Their military grade field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) include the Arria 10, Stratix V, Stratix IV, and Stratix III families. Read more >>

Hamilton Sundstrand, a current subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation, is an aerospace and industrial products manufacturer for worldwide commercial, civil, and defense markets. The company was formed via the merger of Hamilton Standard and Sundstrand Corporation in 1999, both aerospace companies, thus forming Hamilton Sundstrand. Goodrich Corporation and Hamilton Sundstrand were both subsequently merged to the company in its current state as UTC Aerospace Systems.Hamilton Sundstrand, still an active subsidiary, reports annual revenue of $6.2 billion, with 17,158 employees. UTC Aerospace Systems is currently one of the largest suppliers of aerospace as well as defense products. They support commercial, regional, business, military aircraft, helicopters, and other platforms. Their main business segments are broken down as follows: Read more >>

Goodrich, now a subsidiary of the international conglomerate United Technologies Corporation, which is a high-profile manufacturer of technology products that include aircraft engines, helicopters, HVAC, fuel cells, elevators and escalators, fire and security, building systems, and industrial products, among many other miscellaneous products. They are an S&P 500 Component publicly-traded company with $58.190 billion in annual revenue. UTC is a very large military contractor, providing missile systems, military helicopters, and other military aerospace platforms to the US government and also abroad. Goodrich, also currently an American aerospace manufacturing company based in Charlotte, North Carolina, supplies products such as actuation systems, aerostructures, aircraft wheels and brakes, electrical power systems, engine components, engine control systems, engineered polymer products interiors, ISR systems, undercarriage/landing gear, and sensors and integrated systems, among others. Their business divisions are composed of the following: Read more >>

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