Industry’s Only Low-power 28 nm FPGA in Production Allows Developers to Reduce Total System Costs in PCIe Gen2 Applications San Jose, Calif., March 18, 2013—Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today ...

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.