Advanced Synthesis Cookbook - The Advanced Synthesis Cookbook is a collection of circuit building blocks and related discussions, and presumes you are familiar with Altera® hardware cells and the Quartus® II software tools. The Stratix® Adaptive Logic Module (ALM) is powerful, which helps the synthesis tools achieve good results without hand tuning. The cell features open up opportunities for dramatic hand-crafted “tricks.” These building blocks are intended to demonstrate these tricks.