Cyclone® III devices include an abundance of embedded multipliers for mathematically intensive DSP applications. Having this abundance of multipliers operating in parallel offers FPGAs a unique advantage over DSP processors for video processing in broadcast and medical imaging applications. FPGAs also excel at lowering system costs for multi-channel applications such as video surveillance or communications systems. The maximum performance of the Cyclone® III embedded multiplier is increased to 260MHz with support for one 18-bit or two 9-bit multipliers per block. 18 by 18 multipliers can also be cascaded to support 36 by 36 multiplication.