Actel Unveils 24-Hour On-Line FPGA Technical Support Service; Guru Answers Design Questions Without Time Consuming Forms.SUNNYVALE Sunnyvale, city (1990 pop. 117,229), Santa Clara co., W Calif., near San Francisco; settled 1849, inc. 1912. A city in Silicon Valley, its many manufactures include semiconductors; machinery and instruments; electrical, electronic, and aerospace products; , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 4, 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 ) today announced Guru, a 24-hour on-line technical support system located on its home page at www.actel.com . Guru quickly provides Actel users with detailed answers to technical design questions from anywhere in the world anytime day or night, regarding Actel's field programmable gate arrays See FPGA. (FPGAs) and 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 tools Engineers accessing Guru fill out an easy-to-complete, "push button" form. They then and select a Designer Series FPGA design tool, Actel device and/or and/or conj. Used to indicate that either or both of the items connected by it are involved. Usage Note: And/or is widely used in legal and business writing. third party front-end design tool category, then enter key words related to the technical question. Guru responds to the customer with an answer within a matter of seconds. Many answers include diagrams, illustrations and other resources that can be hot-linked to Actel's home page. If Guru is unable to provide an answer, the question is sent directly to an appropriate Actel applications engineer. "Actel developed Guru to provide the next level of technical assistance. Guru is just one more example of how Actel is helping FPGA designers around the world slash design time and meet ever-shrinking time-to-market requirements," said Yousef Khalilollahi, Customer Applications Manager, Actel Corporation. The Guru database has been designed to answer hundreds of frequently asked technical and design questions and answers about Actel's FPGAs and FPGA design tools. The database will be updated regularly. To access Guru, visit Actel's webpage at http://www.actel.com and click on the Guru button. 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 Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the : http://www.actel.com . -0- Note to Editors: The Actel name and logo are trademarks of Actel Corporation. CONTACT: Actel Corporation Yousef Khalilollahi, 408/739-1010 (Reader contact) Chuck Byers, 408/739-1010 (Media contact) Charles.Byers@actel.com or Walt & Company Communications Sandy Fewkes or Kristin Jones, 408/496-0900 sfewkes@walt.com or kjones@walt.com |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion