Actel Goes Multimedia with Designer Series Demo Disk; Interactive CD-ROM Helps Designers Move Confidently To A Higher Level of Design Complexity.Corporation today released the "feel-good demo of the year," the Designer Series 3.0 Multimedia Demo. Now showing on PCs worldwide, the disk helps designers evaluate Actel's industry-leading field programmable gate arrays See FPGA. (FPGAs) and Designer Series 3.0 development system. The highly interactive disk features more than 100 exciting multimedia scenes explaining the benefits of FPGAs, the details of Actel's architecture and devices, and the use of design options provided by Actel's Designer Series development tools. An emulation of Actel's design tools enables users to interactively manipulate a typical design to gain hands-on 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. design experience. In addition, the disk includes several case histories spotlighting the use of Actel's products to achieve early design success for fast time-to-market. "I give it two thumbs up," said Steve Gurklys, channel marketing manager, Actel. "The Designer Series Multimedia Demo is a fun, interactive way for logic designers to gain valuable knowledge about FPGAs in general and Actel's development tools and devices in particular. The Multimedia Demo is a fast-paced, action-packed blockbuster hit!" Actel's Designer Series Multimedia Demo is now playing on any 386 or higher PC running Windows with a CD-ROM drive A device that holds and reads CD-ROM discs. CD-ROM drives generally also play audio CD discs by sending analog sound to the sound card via a 4-pin cable. For specifications of 10x, 20x, etc. drives, see CD-ROM drives. See CD-ROM, CD-ROM changer, CD-ROM server and CD-ROM audio cable. , and 256-color graphics card. A sound card and speakers are recommended but not required. Designer Series Multimedia Demo is a recommended experience for all audiences, but especially designers who are unfamiliar with FPGAs or with Actel's design tools. Programmable Logic Device See PLD. (PLD (Programmable Logic Device) Refers to a variety of logic chips that are programmable at the customer's site, the customer being the vendor of the finished chip, not the end user. ) designers who are considering the move to a higher level of design complexity will find Designer Series Multimedia Demo a valuable addition to their CD library. Designer Series Multimedia Demo is available now through Actel's direct sales force as well as its representative and distributor network, or by calling Actel direct at 1-800-228-3532. Alternatively, designers can order the Demo Disk from Actel's critically acclaimed World Wide Web Site at http://www.actel.com. About Actel 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 ) is dedicated to providing logic designers with 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, antifuse architecture offers designers advantages in total system performance, gate utilization and high level design efficiencies, all resulting in lower development costs and faster time to market. Actel's 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 computing - computer , medical, industrial controls and military and aerospace applications worldwide. Actel is located at 955 E. Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086. Telephone: 408-739-1010. Internet: http://www.actel.com. CONTACT: Actel Corp. Chuck Byers, 408/522-4598 or Walt & Co. Communications Erin Curtis or Kellie DiNaro, 408/496-0900 |
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