Actel Announces New Packages for High-Performance FPGA Family; New Packages Provide Upgrade Path Within Integrator Series.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 8, 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 announced the addition of two new packages to its Integrator Series of FPGAs. The new packages are a 208-pin Plastic Quad Flat Pack (PQFP (Plastic Quad Flat Package) Refers to many varieties of QFP chip packages, which are molded in plastic. See QFP. ) for the 8,000-gate A1280XL and a 100-pin PQFP for the 4,000-gate A1240XL. "The new packages will allow designers to migrate to higher density devices within the same product series, without having to change packages or re-design their circuit boards, which is expensive and time consuming," said Ken O'Neill, product line manager for Actel. "We've also made it a point to provide users with smaller packages which save board space, without sacrificing functionality." The new package for the A1280XL provides 15 more I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output pins than the current 160-pin PQFP package, yet doesn't take up any extra board space. This allows designers to use all the I/O available on the device, in a standard plastic package. Users wanting to migrate to higher density devices can easily do so since 208-pin PQFP packages featuring the same pin-out are available for the 14,000-gate A32140DX and 20,000-gate A32200DX Integrator Series FPGAs. The new package for the A1240XL device is 50 percent smaller than the 84-pin Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier A Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier (PLCC) is a four-sided “J”-leaded plastic integrated circuit package with pin spacings of 0.05" (1.27 mm). Lead counts range from 20 to 84. PLCC packages can be square or rectangular. Body widths range from .35" to 1.15". (PLCC (Plastic Leaded Chip Carrier) A plastic, square, surface mount chip package that contains leads on all four sides. The leads (pins) extend down and back under and into tiny indentations in the housing. See chip package. ) package, previously the smallest package available for that device. In addition, the PQ100 has the same pin-out configuration provided for the 2,500-gate A1225XL device, so users can now easily move to the higher-density A1240XL device, without having to change the circuit board configuration. About the Integrator Series FPGAs Actel's Integrator Series includes both the 1200XL and 3200DX families of FPGAs. The 1200XL family features three parts ranging from 2,500 to 8,000 gates and is available in over 50 speed/packaging/temperature options. All the 1200XL devices are available in the standard speed grade, as well as higher speed versions, designated "-1," which runs 15 percent faster, and "-2," which runs 25 percent faster than the standard offering. The 3200DX family offers parts up to 40,000 gates with 4 Kbits of dual-port SRAM See static RAM. SRAM - static random-access memory . Supported by a wide range of design automation tools, the 3200DX family offers the system logic integration functions and performance needed to create high-speed, high complexity designs for applications such as networking, co-processing and digital signal processing See DSP. Digital Signal Processing - (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). (DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive ). Pricing and Availability Samples are currently available for both new packages. Software support is provided by Actel's Designer Series 3.1 software tool, which will begin shipping in July. Mechanical details of the packages and pin-outs for these devices can be found in Actel's 1996 Databook and on the company's web site, at http://www.actel.com. Also contact Actel for current pricing information. About Actel Actel Corporation is dedicated to providing logic designers the capability and confidence to move up to higher complexity designs. Actel is the world's leading manufacturer of antifuse-based field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and associated software development tools. Actel's cost-effective, anti-fuse architecture offers designers advantages in total system performance, maximum gate utilization and high level design efficiencies, all resulting in lower development costs and faster time to market. FPGAs are used in voice and data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. , computing, medical, industrial controls and military and aerospace applications worldwide. Actel is traded on the NASDAQ market using the symbol ACTL and is located at 955 East Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086. Telephone: 408-739-1010. Internet: http://www.actel.com. CONTACT: Actel Corporation Ken O'Neill (reader contact) or Chuck Byers (media contact), 408/739-1010 cbyers@actel.com or Walt & Company Communications Erin Curtis or Kellie DiNaro, 408/496-0900 ecurtis@walt.com |
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