San Jose, Calif., June 28, 2004—Expanding its leadership in the low-cost FPGA market, Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today launched the new Cyclone™ II device family. Offering 30 percent lower cost ...

As part of a class assignment he programmed his own sequencer which runs on a Cyclone-II FPGA development board ... We’ve seen this Altera board before, used to drive a falling sands game.