Celoxica Supports Actel FPGAs With New DK1.1 Design Suite.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ABINGDON, England & SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 25, 2002 Handel-C Methodology Benefits Designers of High-reliability Systems, Such as Complex Avionics and Space Applications Celoxica Limited and Actel Corporation (Nasdaq: 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 ), a supplier of innovative programmable logic See PLD. solutions, announced that Celoxica's new DK1.1 design suite supports Actel's field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). DK1.1 will provide Actel users with a high-level methodology, based on the Handel-C language, for rapidly designing and implementing complex algorithms in hardware. DK1.1 provides technology mapping of Handel-C designs to architecture-specific resources in Actel's antifuse-based eX, SX, SX-A and RTSX-S devices and flash-based ProASIC and ProASIC Plus solutions. In addition to advanced synthesis and timing estimation tools, the area and delay analysis capabilities of DK1.1 will provide an early estimation of time and area before place and route for fast optimisation. "We are delighted to be supporting Actel's FPGAs with this latest version of our design suite. We have seen increasing customer interest in an integrated C-language methodology for Actel's FPGAs," said Dennis Nye, senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing at Celoxica Limited. "Actel is the leading supplier of antifuse and flash-based FPGAs. We see this support being of particular relevance to defence and aerospace customers implementing communications functions." "We have worked closely with Celoxica to optimise a smooth flow and methodology from C-language design to FPGAs," said Jon Ewald, director of product marketing at Actel. "We believe DK1.1 will enable software engineers, hardware designers and system architects to maintain high-performance 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. solutions while accelerating the design of high-reliability, high-speed communications and ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. alternative applications from concept to implementation." About Actel Actel Corporation is a supplier of innovative programmable logic solutions, including field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) based on antifuse and flash technologies and embedded-programmable gate arrays (EPGAs) based on SRAM See static RAM. SRAM - static random-access memory technology, as well as high-performance intellectual property (IP) cores, software development tools and design services. Founded in 1985 and headquartered in 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. , Actel employs approximately 500 people worldwide. The Company is traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol ACTL and is located at 955 East Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale, California, 94086-4533. Telephone: 888-99-ACTEL (992-2835). Internet: http://www.actel.com. About Celoxica Celoxica brings software methodologies to hardware design with tools that converge electronics design automation (EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. ) and embedded software Instructions that permanently reside in a ROM or flash memory chip. Embedded software may be immediately available to the CPU or, for faster execution, may be transferred to RAM first and then executed. development (ESD (1) (Electronic Software Distribution) Distributing new software and upgrades via the network rather than individual installations on each machine. See ESL. ) to improve designer productivity, address design skills shortages, and overcome system performance bottlenecks. The company's design tools, and supporting products and services, introduce three aspects of software development to the hardware design process: a C-based language for rapidly describing the functionality rather than the underlying structural detail of the hardware; an integrated development environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment (IDE) for hardware design with features such as symbolic debugging as well as synthesis that correlates to software compilation in that it is very fast; and libraries of predefined functions including access to peripherals and processors in hardware via common APIs. Celoxica has alliances and partnerships with Altera Corporation, Avnet Design Services, Wind River Systems Inc. and Xilinx, Inc. The company is headquartered in Abingdon, UK, with additional offices in Campbell, California Campbell (IPA: /ˈkæmbəl/) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, part of Silicon Valley, in the San Francisco Bay Area. [2] As of 2007 population estimates, Campbell's population is 39,200. , USA; Yokohama, Japan; and Singapore. For more information please visit: www.celoxica.com. Note to Editors: The Actel name and logo are registered trademarks of Actel Corporation. Celoxica and the Celoxica logo are the trademarks of Celoxica Limited. All other trademarks and servicemarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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