Actel, Inicore Announce Two New Suites of FPGA Optimized Cores; First Six Cores Available Now.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 1996--Actel Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : ACTL ACTL American College of Trial Lawyers (Irvine, California) ACTL Access Carrier Terminal Location ACTL Activation Library ACTL Automated Compatibility Test Laboratory ACTL Association Cultural Turkey-Luxembourg ) today broadened its Intellectual Property (IP) offering to the telecommunications and industrial control industry, announcing a multi-year partnership agreement with Swiss IP provider, Inicore AG. At the same time, the two companies announced the immediate availability of three telecommunications cores and three industrial control cores. The new telecommunication cores include a G704-E1 framer, UTOPIA receiver, and UTOPIA transmitter interface. A Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (communications, hardware) Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter - (UART) An integrated circuit used for serial communications, containing a transmitter (parallel-to-serial converter) and a receiver (serial-to-parallel converter), each clocked separately. (UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter) The electronic circuit that makes up the serial port. Also known as "universal serial asynchronous receiver transmitter" (USART), it converts parallel bytes from the CPU into serial bits for transmission, and vice ), CAN bus interface, and Serial Control Bus Interface (I2C I2C Inter-Integrated Circuit I2C Intelligent Interface Controller I2C Intelligent Controller compatible) core are targeted to industrial control applications. These first six cores have been optimized to Actel's Act 3, Act 3 PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). , 1200XL and 3200DX families which feature speeds of up to 250 Mhz and offer up to 40,000 usable gates. Selected cores will also be ported to Actel's new ES family of Systems Programmable Gate Arrays (SPGAs) by Q2 1997. The optimized cores will be available as a compiled netlist, VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) A hardware description language (HDL) used to design electronic systems at the component, board and system level. VHDL allows models to be developed at a very high level of abstraction. or Verilog RTL (Register Transfer Level) A high-level hardware description language (HDL) for defining digital circuits. The circuits are described as a collection of registers, Boolean equations, control logic such as "if-then-else" statements as well as complex event sequences; source code. Gate densities range from 1,500 to 15,000 gates, depending upon their design implementation. All cores will be delivered with specifications, data sheet, synthesis scripts, and test benches. An Inicore engineering team is working with Actel engineers out of Actel's Sunnyvale headquarters to optimize each core to Actel's programmable architectures. The same engineers will provide technical support to the user base. Actel is targeting high density FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. designers in the telecommunications and industrial control industries who must combine customized logic with predefined functions optimized for high performance applications. By using predefined cores, these designers save engineering resources for the value add portions of their designs, while considerably shortening the design cycle and reducing product time-to-market. "What Actel and Inicore really bring to the telecommunications and industrial control designers is `reusable expertise'. Together, we provide application-specific building blocks, thus freeing designers to quickly and efficiently add their own unique value to their system design," said Gervais Fong, Actel's CoreHDL Product Line Manager. "Actel's programmable architectures offer ample routing and logic to implement our robust ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. cores in programmable logic See PLD. . These cores have been verified in silicon and provide the designers a jump start in developing their systems. Our mutual goal is to improve design performance and time to market," said Matthias Isler, Product Engineering Manager, Inicore AG. Inicore specializes in intellectual property for telecommunications and industrial core applications, working with companies in telecommunications such as Ascom as well as industrial control companies such as Sulzer, Inc. Inicore also supplies to the automotive market. Pricing Pricing for netlist versions of the cores starts at approximately $5,000 (USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ). VHDL and Verilog source versions will be set on a core-by-core basis to accommodate individual customer requirements. About Actel Actel is dedicated to providing logic designers with the capability and confidence to successfully move to high complexity designs by supplying the best programmable logic devices and design software. The company is the world's leading supplier of antifuse-based field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and associated software development tools. FPGAs are used by designers of communications, computer, medical, military/aerospace, industrial control, and other electronic systems to differentiate their products and get them to market faster. In 1996, Actel introduced system programmable gate arrays, or SPGAs, based on SRAM See static RAM. SRAM - static random-access memory technology. Actel is traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol ACTL and is located at 955 East Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale, California 94086-4533. Telephone: 408/739-1010. Internet: http://www.actel.com About Inicore Inicore is a system design house that has pioneered the concept of reusable, engineering-based intellectual property for FPGA and ASIC technologies as part of its broad technologies integration practice. The company provides products and services which support the entire integrated circuit design process from concept through implementation. Inicore offers specific services in the areas of project management, technology consulting, design methodology, system integration, device testing and device delivery. The company specializes in the development and implementation of turn-key projects but has also developed globally-recognized expertise in the development, implementation and optimization of specific logic functions known as cores. -0- Note to Editors: A schematic of the six new cores is available upon request. For more information contact Chuck Byers, manager of marketing communication, Actel Corporation at 408/522-4598 or cbyers@actel.com CONTACT: Actel Gervais Fong, 408/739-1010 (reader contact) Chuck Byers, 408/522-4598 (media contact) cbyers@actel.com or Inicore Jurgen Trachsel, 41-32-374-32-00 www.inicore.ch/inicore |
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