Taipei, Taiwan, December 12, 2005 – System General, a leading provider of device programmers, today announced its device support for Altera Stratix II EP2S15, EP2S30 and EP2S60 FPGAs in FBGA484 packages. The device support is available on the manual T9600 Universal Programmer and on all System General automated programmers.

“We are proud to be chosen by Altera to provide the sole socket programming support for the unique design security feature available on the new Altera’s Stratix II FPGAs”, said Don Yang, Vice President of System General. “At System General, our company policy is always to do our best in order to provide total programming solutions for our customers. Our support for Stratix II allows us to complete our support for Altera devices, which aligns with our company policy”. System General will continue our support for other Stratix II FPGAs in different packages.

System General was the first programmer company to pioneer the High-Speed Programming (HSP) technology. With advanced hardware architecture, the T9600 Universal Programmer provides customers the fastest programming speed with affordable cost of ownership. In addition, System General incorporates T9600 with handlers to automate programming operations. For information about System General and its product lines, please visit www.sg.com.tw or www.systemgeneral.com, and click “Instrument” to access the programmer product line.