Actel Expands Socket Product Line, Simplifies FPGA Design Prototyping; Actel and Yamaichi Expand Product Line from Seven to Nine Sockets.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 26, 1997--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 ) has made 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. (field programmable gate array See FPGA. ) prototyping simpler and easier with the announced availability of two new sockets tooled specifically for Actel by Yamaichi Electronics, one of the leading suppliers of prototype and production sockets. The two new sockets are for the 176-pin TQFP See QFP. and 240-pin QFP (Quad FlatPack) A square, surface mount chip package that has leads on all four sides and comes in several varieties. PQFP (Plastic QFP) may refer to all of the following QFP types. All quad flatpacks use gull-wing leads, except for the CQFP, which stick straight out. packages and a complete line of sockets designed to accommodate all Actel FPGAs in TQFP, PQFP (Plastic Quad Flat Package) Refers to many varieties of QFP chip packages, which are molded in plastic. See QFP. , RQFP and VQFP VQFP Very Thin Quad Flat Package VQFP Very small Quad Flat Package VQFP very-fine-pitch quad flat pack packages. "These new sockets allow designers to take advantage of Actel's non-volatile devices without the complexities of prototype design," said Ken O'Neill, product line manager, Actel. "Rather than removing a soldered chip from the board, a process that is time consuming and risks damage to the PCB PCB: see polychlorinated biphenyl. PCB in full polychlorinated biphenyl Any of a class of highly stable organic compounds prepared by the reaction of chlorine with biphenyl, a two-ring compound. , the designer simply replaces the old chip in the socket with a new one," O'Neill explained. The new sockets accommodate Actel's high-capacity DX family up to 30,000 gates, as well as the high-performance ACT 3 family and the high-value XL family which runs up to 8,000. Furthermore, the sockets' footprints match those of the Actel parts they support so the same board design can be used in both the prototype and production stages. Availability and Pricing The sockets are available now through Actel in quantities of up to 24. Orders for more than 24 units can be handled directly through Yamaichi at 408/456-0797. -0-
Actel P/N Package Price Yamaichi Part
Type Number
SY-TQ176 176-TQFP $97.50 IC149-176-166-S5
SY-PQ240 240-PQFP $132.00 IC149-240-167-S5
240-RQFP
Additional technical information regarding Actel's full socket product line can be found on Actel's Web site: www.actel.com. -0- About Yamaichi Yamaichi Electronics headquartered in Tokyo, Japan maintains a staff of more than 30 test and burn-in design engineers, who are constantly researching innovations in socket design. Yamaichi delivers a wide variety of hi-tech products, and continues to satisfy special customer design requirements with custom solutions, all backed by a leading-edge engineering group and a proven manufacturing process. For additional information on Yamaichi contact them at (408) 456-0797 or visit the Web Site at http://www.yeu.com. About Actel Actel is dedicated to providing logic designers with the capability and confidence to successfully move up to higher complexity designs. 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. Actel is traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol ACTL and is located at 955 East Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale, California Sunnyvale ([sʌniveil]) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 131,760. 94086-4533. Telephone: (408) 739-1010. Internet: http://www.actel.com Editor's Note: The Actel name and logo are trademarks of the Actel Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their owners. CONTACT: Actel Corp. Ken O'Neill (reader contact), 408/739-1010 Chuck Byers (media contact), 408/739-1010 cbyers@actel.com or Walt & Company Sandy Turner or Kristin Jones, 408/496-0900 sturner@walt.com or kjones@walt.com |
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