What Terasic Technologies does

Terasic Inc. (友晶) is a Hsinchu, Taiwan-based designer and manufacturer of FPGA-based hardware platforms founded in 2003. The company produces development kits, system-on-modules (SoMs), and acceleration cards built primarily on Altera (Intel PSG) FPGA silicon spanning the Cyclone, Stratix, Arria, and Agilex families. Its core education and prototyping lineup — the DE series (DE0, DE10-Standard, DE25-Standard, DE25-Nano) — has become a de facto standard in university FPGA curricula, with installed presence at Cornell, MIT, Stanford, Cambridge, Imperial College London, Tsinghua, IIT Bombay, and others, and cumulative unit sales exceeding 100,000 kits. The portfolio has expanded beyond education boards into production-ready SoMs (Titan S10, Comet A65, Atum A3 Nano) targeting medical, military, and industrial automation, and high-performance acceleration products including the DE10-Agilex Development Kit and Mercury A2700 FPGA Accelerator Card for HPC, networking, and AI inference workloads.

Terasic's commercial model is hardware sales via direct e-commerce on its website, the Altera FPGA University Program channel, and direct enterprise sales, with a dual-tier pricing structure offering commercial and academic price points (e.g., DE25-Standard at $586 commercial / $415 academic; DE0 at $162 / $104). The company monetizes through unit sales of kits, SoMs, and accelerator cards, plus accessories such as camera modules, FMC loopback cards, and timing boards. The OpenPET medical imaging platform, co-developed with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, extends the model into open-source research hardware with commercial licensing retained by LBNL.

The company's go-to-market centers on a 20+ year exclusive partnership with Altera, deep integration with Quartus Prime Pro Edition software, and a global distribution footprint covering more than 31 countries across North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Oceania. Marketing is driven by content (website, newsletters, social media, technical documentation), community engagement (Intel FPGA Communities, MyFPGA Forum), and event participation (Altera Innovator's Day, embedded world). The customer base of 500+ organizations is bifurcated between a long-tail of academic institutions and a concentrated set of marquee enterprise and government buyers (Qualcomm, Samsung, TSMC, Broadcom, MediaTek, Northrop Grumman, Wright-Patterson AFB, ITRI). The company is privately held, founder/management-owned per available sources, ISO 9001 certified, and operates with 51-100 employees out of Hsinchu.

Name

Terasic Technologies

Legal name

Terasic Inc.

Website

https://terasic.com.tw

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Terasic Technologies designs and manufactures FPGA-based development kits, system-on-modules, and accelerator cards built on Altera/Intel silicon, serving universities, semiconductor companies, and research institutions across edge AI, HPC, medical imaging, and defense.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

FPGA Development Hardware

NAICS

Computer and Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing (3341)

SIC

Electronic Components & Accessories (3670)

akta.pro primary industry

Programmable Logic (FPGAs/CPLDs) (HDAHAJAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Graphics & Accelerator Cards (GPUs, compute accelerators) (HDACAGAA)

Keywords

• FPGA development kits
• System-on-modules
• FPGA accelerator cards
• Edge AI hardware
• FPGA education platforms

Headquarters

HQ city

Hsinchu

HQ country

Taiwan

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. FPGA Development Kit Sales: Sale of FPGA development and education boards (DE series), including the DE25-Standard, DE10-Agilex, DE10-Standard, DE0-Nano, and various other SKUs at commercial and academic price points.
2. System-on-Module (SoM) Sales: Sale of production-ready System-on-Modules (SoMs) such as Titan S10 SOM, Comet A65 SOM for edge applications in medical, military, and industrial automation.
3. Acceleration Solutions: Sale of high-performance FPGA acceleration products including the DE10-Agilex accelerator card targeting data center and AI applications.
4. OpenPET Medical Imaging Platform: Co-designed and manufactured multi-FPGA electronics support platform for medical imaging (PET and SPECT imagers) in collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Commercial uses require licensing from LBNL.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Terasic designs and manufactures FPGA-based hardware platforms built on Altera/Intel PSG FPGA technologies (Cyclone, Stratix, Agilex families). Its portfolio spans FPGA development and education boards (DE series), production-ready System-on-Modules (SoMs), and high-performance accelerator cards for edge AI, HPC, networking, medical imaging, and defense applications. The company serves academic institutions, research labs, and commercial enterprises worldwide, with over 100,000 FPGA kits sold globally.

Product overview

Terasic Inc. is a leading FPGA hardware platform provider with over 20 years of expertise, offering a comprehensive portfolio organized across multiple product lines. The core portfolio spans development and education boards (DE series such as DE25-Standard, DE23-Lite), production-ready system-on-modules (SoMs including Titan S10 SOM, Comet A65 SOM, Atum A3 Nano), high-performance acceleration solutions (DE10-Agilex Development Kit, Mercury A2700 Accelerator Card, Stratix 10 Sensor Processing Kit), embedded systems kits (Atum Nios V Starter Kit, Cyclone V GX Starter Kit), and specialized medical imaging platforms (OpenPET co-developed with LBNL). The product ecosystem is grounded in Altera (Intel PSG) FPGA technology across Cyclone, Stratix, and Agilex families. Terasic also offers a curated accessory lineup including the 16MP IMX519 MIPI CSI-2 Camera Module, USB Bluetooth and WiFi dongles, FMC/FMC+ loopback boards, and timing/UART boards. The company maintains an extensive phased-out product catalog including legacy DE boards (DE2, DE2-115, DE1-SoC, DE0-Nano-SoC) and older Stratix platforms (Stratix IV/V GX Development Kits, SoCKit, Terasic Spider, VEEK-MT2). Terasic serves education, research, and industry across edge AI, IoT, video broadcast, HPC, medical imaging, aerospace, and defense verticals.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• OpenPET: Open-source electronics support platform for medical imaging (PET and SPECT imagers), co-designed and manufactured with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Products and services

• DE25-Standard Development and Education Kit The DE25-Standard is a development and education kit powered by Altera Agilex 5 SoC FPGA with 138K logic elements, featuring 1GB DDR4 memory, 64MB SDRAM, HDMI 2.0 output at 1080p, MIPI CSI/DSI interfaces, USB-C programming, AI Tensor Blocks for edge AI, an 8-channel ADC header, GPIO expansion, HSMC connector, and an included free Quartus Pro Edition license. It targets digital logic, embedded vision, AI, robotics, computer vision, and intelligent surveillance applications.
• DE10-Agilex Development Kit A high-performance accelerator based on Altera Agilex FPGA delivering 40% higher performance and 40% lower power consumption versus the prior generation. It includes PCI Express Gen 4.0 x16, two 200G QSFP-DD connectors, 32GB DDR4 with up to 680Gbps bandwidth, and supports Altera OpenCL BSP and oneAPI Toolkits for computer vision and deep learning solutions. Target markets include high-frequency trading, HPC, instrumentation, military, defense, and broadcast video.
• Cyclone V GX Starter Kit An FPGA development board designed for education and prototyping, featuring Cyclone V SoC with dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 HPS, 1GB DDR3 SDRAM, Arduino Uno R3-compatible expansion header, USB OTG, gigabit Ethernet, and micro SD card socket. Used in advanced digital systems design and practical hardware security coursework at universities such as UMass Lowell.
• DE25-Nano Development and Education Board A compact development and education board delivering smarter vision, real-time control, and powerful edge AI capabilities in a palm-sized form factor.
• DE23-Lite A compact FPGA development board optimized for real-time video and vision performance in embedded applications.
• Atum A3 Nano A compact system-on-module built on Agilex 5 technology with a small form factor, designed for vision, robotics, and embedded applications.
• Atum Nios V Starter Kit An embedded systems development kit supporting the Nios V soft processor, enabling fast-tracking of embedded designs from evaluation to integration.
• Titan S10 SOM A system-on-module targeting medical, military, and industrial automation applications, powered by Stratix 10 FPGA technology.
• Comet A65 SOM A high-performance system-on-module delivering powerhouse performance for edge applications with faster time-to-market.
• Terasic Mercury A2700 FPGA Accelerator Card A high-speed FPGA accelerator card supporting line-rate 400G stateful packet flow processing when paired with DYNANIC software. Designed for networking and data center acceleration applications including high-frequency trading and HPC.
• Stratix 10 Sensor Processing Kit An FPGA sensor processing kit accelerated by NVIDIA Holoscan Sensor Bridge, designed for sensor data processing in AI and edge computing applications.
• OpenPET An open-source medical imaging platform co-developed with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), consisting of support boards, detector boards, host PC interface boards, user IO boards, debugging boards, and a coincidence interface board for researchers building prototype PET and SPECT imagers. The entire system is open-source; commercial use requires licensing from LBNL.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 100,000 FPGA kits sold to academia and industry globally
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers22 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability6 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

14 partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 December 2025Terasic, represented by Chairman Sean Peng, donated nearly NT$70 million worth of development hardware and software licenses to NYCU for the Altera FPGAi Joint Teaching Laboratory at the Kaohsiung campus. The facility is the largest and most technologically advanced deployment of chip design educational resources in Taiwan, focused on AI chip design and execution for AI Intelligent Systems, Smart Manufacturing, and Applied Tech.
• Altera CorporationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2003Terasic has been the global partner of the Altera FPGA University Program for over 20 years. The partnership provides Terasic with preferential access to Altera FPGA technologies for development kits, SoMs, and accelerators. Altera provides leadership programmable solutions from cloud to edge, and Terasic serves as the primary hardware platform partner for university and commercial deployments of Altera FPGAs including Agilex, Stratix, Arria, and Cyclone families.
• Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc. (ISSI)supportingTechnology or IntegrationISSI is a technology leader in high-performance integrated circuits, providing memory ICs (DRAM, SRAM) for Terasic FPGA-based systems, supporting the memory requirements of development kits and accelerator products.
• Micron Technology, Inc.supportingTechnology or IntegrationMicron provides NOR and DDR memory solutions for Terasic FPGA platforms, enabling high-bandwidth memory subsystems in development boards and acceleration products.
• MPS (Monolithic Power Systems)supportingTechnology or IntegrationMPS re-imagines high-performance power solutions for industrial, telecom, cloud computing, automotive, and consumer applications, providing power management components for Terasic FPGA boards.
• PanasonicsupportingTechnology or IntegrationPanasonic provides POSCAP capacitors with low ESR, superior high-frequency characteristics, high reliability and heat resistance for digital applications in Terasic products.
• Reed Semiconductor Corp.supportingTechnology or IntegrationFounded in 2019, Reed Semiconductor specializes in power management solutions with global offices in USA, Taipei, Shenzhen, and Bangalore, providing power solutions for Terasic FPGA systems.
• Renesas Electronics Corp.supportingTechnology or IntegrationRenesas offers the broadest and deepest silicon timing portfolio including oscillators, buffers, synthesizers, and PCIe timing solutions for wireless infrastructure, networking, and data centers, used in Terasic FPGA boards.
• SamtecsupportingTechnology or IntegrationFounded in 1976, Samtec offers innovative connector solutions with a fully integrated business model, providing HSMC (High-Speed Mezzanine Card) connectors and other interconnects for Terasic boards.
• Skyworks SolutionssupportingTechnology or IntegrationSkyworks provides clock solutions and connectivity solutions since 1962, powering technologies for collaboration, education, and entertainment, integrated into Terasic FPGA development platforms.
• Texas Instruments IncorporatedsupportingTechnology or IntegrationTI designs and manufactures analog and embedded processing chips for industrial, automotive, personal electronics, and communications markets, providing logic and level translators and USB Type-C solutions for Terasic boards.
• Agilent TechnologiessupportingTechnology or IntegrationAgilent provides innovative measurement solutions for electronic measurement, supporting Terasic's development and testing processes for FPGA hardware platforms.
• DYNANICsupportingTechnology or IntegrationTerasic announced that the Mercury A2700 FPGA Accelerator Card fully supports DYNANIC's latest release, unlocking line-rate 400G stateful packet flow processing for high-frequency trading and networking applications.
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTerasic co-designed and manufactured the OpenPET multi-FPGA electronics support platform for medical imaging (PET and SPECT imagers) with LBNL. The entire system is open-source. Commercial uses require licensing from LBNL. The partnership produced support boards, detector boards, host PC interface boards, and coincidence interface boards.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Market position

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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