Designers using Linux now have access to Altera’s SOPC solutions

From a press release at Yahoo Finance: “Microtronix, an embedded hardware and software engineering solutions company, and Altera Corporation (Nasdaq:ALTR – news), a leading programmable logic device (PLD) supplier, today announced the development of a Linux Development Kit for Altera’s Nios(TM) embedded processor core. The new kit gives designers using the Linux operating system access to Altera’s leading programmable logic products, as well as Excalibur(TM) embedded processor system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) solutions.”