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How to Contact Altera

8B10B Encoder/Decoder MegaCore Function User Guide

May 2011

Altera Corporation

How to Contact Altera

To locate the most up-to-date information about Altera products, refer to the
following table.

Typographic Conventions

The following table shows the typographic conventions this document uses.

Contact

(1)

Contact Method

Address

Technical support

Website

www.altera.com/support

Technical training

Website

www.altera.com/training

Email

[email protected]

Product literature

Website

www.altera.com/literature

Non-technical support (General)

Email

[email protected]

(Software Licensing)

Email

[email protected]

Note:

(1) You can also contact your local Altera sales office or sales representative.

Visual Cue

Meaning

Bold Type with Initial Capital
Letters

Indicate command names, dialog box titles, dialog box options, and other GUI
labels. For example, Save As dialog box. For GUI elements, capitalization matches
the GUI.

bold type

Indicates directory names, project names, disk drive names, file names, file name
extensions, software utility names, and GUI labels. For example, \qdesigns
directory, D: drive, and chiptrip.gdf file.

Italic Type with Initial Capital Letters

Indicate document titles. For example, Stratix IV Design Guidelines.

italic type

Indicates variables. For example, n + 1.

Variable names are enclosed in angle brackets (< >). For example, <file name> and
<project name>.pof file.

Initial Capital Letters

Indicate keyboard keys and menu names. For example, the Delete key and the
Options menu.

“Subheading Title”

Quotation marks indicate references to sections within a document and titles of
Quartus II Help topics. For example, “Typographic Conventions.”

Courier type

Indicates signal, port, register, bit, block, and primitive names. For example,

data1

,

tdi

, and

input

. The suffix

n

denotes an active-low signal. For example,

resetn

.

Indicates command line commands and anything that must be typed exactly as it
appears. For example,

c:\qdesigns\tutorial\chiptrip.gdf

.

Also indicates sections of an actual file, such as a Report File, references to parts of
files (for example, the AHDL keyword

SUBDESIGN

), and logic function names (for

example,

TRI

).

r

An angled arrow instructs you to press the Enter key.

1., 2., 3., and
a., b., c., and so on

Numbered steps indicate a list of items when the sequence of the items is important,
such as the steps listed in a procedure.

Bullets indicate a list of items when the sequence of the items is not important.

1

The hand points to information that requires special attention.

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