As part of the Altera® initiative to provide enhanced commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) devices for military applications, the temperature range for the Stratix® V device family has been extended to enable operation across the military temperature range (–55°C to 125°C). This extension allows military programs to benefit from the new technology and economies of scale by using commercially available Stratix V FPGAs. Stratix V FPGAs are extremely robust and capable of operating across a wide temperature range with excellent reliability.