Actel unveils industry's broadest 3.3 volt FPGA product line; 3.3 volt products span from 2500 to 30,000 gates.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)--April 30, 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 expanded its 3.3 volt volt [for Alessandro Volta], abbr. V, unit of electric potential and electromotive force. It is defined as the difference of electric potential existing across the ends of a conductor carrying a constant current of 1 ampere when the power dissipated is 1 watt. product line to include additional members of its popular 1200XL and 3200DX 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. product lines. With these latest additions, Actel now provides designers with the industry's broadest 3.3 volt FPGA product line, offering devices that range from 2,500 to 30,000 gates. "Actel has historically focused on high speed, high capacity devices that have made system logic integration a reality at 5 volts. Today, we've begun providing design engineers with that same system logic integration capability in the ever-expanding 3 volt world," said Ken O'Neill, Integrator (1) In electronics, a device that combines an input with a variable, such as time, and provides an analog output; for example, a watt-hour meter. (2) See systems integrator. Series product line manager. Actel's expanded 3.3 volt product line now includes eight of its most popular devices: the 2,500 gate A1225XL, the 4,000 gate A1240XL, the 6500 gate A3265DX, the 8,000 gate A1280XL, the 14,000 gate A32140DX, the 20,000 gate A32200DX and the recently announced 30,000 gate A32300DX. While portable applications led the 3.3 volt revolution, this standard is now finding its way into mainstream telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. and networking equipment, industrial controls, and computer peripherals. "What's so important about this announcement is that it acknowledges the need of designers in Actel's core high density, high complexity markets for a real set of 3.3 volt programmable options. The breadth of our 3.3 volt product line assures the marketplace of a clear upward migration path from 2,500 gates to 30,000 gates. Designers can now count on 3.3 volt programmable devices for today's designs and those that have yet to come out of the labs," O'Neill explained. Pricing and Availability Actel's new 3.3 volt devices will feature volume prices ranging from $13.80 to $277.00 (U.S.). Following are selected current and projected p End of `97 (projected) 1240XLV-PL84C $31.80 $13.80 1280XLV-PL84C $46.10 bine the register intensive datapath functions on Actel's antifuse architecture, the family es 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 run 15 percent faster, and "-2," which run 25 percent faster than standard offerings. About Actel Actel is dedicated to providing logic designers with the capability to move up to high complexity designs with confidence and be successful. The company is the world's leading supplier of antifuse-based field programmable gate arrays See FPGA. (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: Actel Corporation and the Actel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Actel Corporation. This release may also include unregistered trademarks of Actel and trademarks of other companies. CONTACT: Actel Corporation Ken O'Neill or Chuck Byers, 408/739-1010 cbyers@actel.com or Walt & Company Sandy Turner or Kristin Jones, 408/496-0900 sturner@walt.com kjones@walt.com |
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