To accelerate the integration of programmable logic and processors in embedded systems, Altera Corporation) today announced its Embedded Initiative. With this initiative, Altera is providing designers a single FPGA design flow based on its Quartus^® II development software—including the new Qsys system-level integration tool, a common FPGA intellectual property (IP) library, and new ARM^® Cortex™-A9 MPCore™ and MIPS^® Technologies MIPS32 embedded processor offerings. The design flow allows embedded designers to quickly and easily target Altera’s Nios^® II, ARM- and MIPS-based embedded processors and the recently announced configurable Intel^® Atom™-based processor. The Qsys system-level integration tool leverages the industry’s first FPGA-optimized network-on-a-chip technology to support a wide variety of industry-standard IP protocols, improved quality of results and numerous productivity features.