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 28/07/2010 Actel Announces New FlashPro4 Programmer  Actel Corporation has announced FlashPro4, the newest hardware programmer supporting Actel's flash FPGAs: the IGLOO® series and ProASIC®3 series (including RT ProASIC3), SmartFusion™ and Actel Fusion® families. FlashPro4 also supports FPGA embedded software program and debug managed by Actel's SoftConsole Integrated Design Environment (IDE) for embedded processors. FlashPro4 offers high 28/07/2010 Actel Power Management Solutions  Actel Power Management Solution for SmartFusion Intelligent Mixed Signal FPGAs
MPM Daughter Card with the SmartFusion Intelligent Mixed Signal FPGA Evaluation KitThe SmartFusion MPM solution delivers advanced power management that is easily configured via a configuration GUI, enabling system designers to effortlessly integrate and configure intelligent 20/07/2010 Actel RTAX-DSP FPGAs Achieve MIL-STD-883 Class B Qualification  Actel Expands Support of DSP Applications Targeting Spaceflight System Designs
Actel Corporation has announced that its radiation-tolerant RTAX-DSP FPGAs have completed qualification in accordance with the military and aerospace industry standard MIL-STD-883 Class B specification. This qualification expands Actel's support of high-speed signal processing applications for 20/07/2010 Actel's Radiation-Tolerant Flash Based FPGAs Now Qualified for Spaceflight Systems  Actel's Radiation-Tolerant Flash Based FPGAs Now Qualified for Spaceflight Systems
Reaffirming its leadership in the space market, Actel Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTL) today announced the first fully qualified flash based FPGAs for space flight applications. Actel's RT ProASIC®3 family successfully passed the extensive testing required for MIL-STD-883 07/06/2010 Actel Delivers Free IP Cores Bundle and RTL Package Option with Standard Software Packages  Actel is making it easier to build powerful designs using the proven IP blocks in its portfolio by including free access to IP libraries in its Libero® Gold edition and RTL-source IP libraries in its Libero Platinum edition. Access to more than fifty IP cores is now included in the 10/03/2010 SmartFusion using a Cortex-M3 Processor  Cortex-M3: The ARM Processor for Embedded Applications
The ARM® Cortex™-M3 32-bit processor has been specifically developed to provide a high-performance, low-cost platform for a broad range of applications, including microcontrollers, automotive body systems, industrial control systems and wireless networking. With a balance between size and 03/03/2010 Actel & ACAL Technology Introduces SmartFusion Intelligent Mixed-Signal FPGAs  SmartFusion
intelligent mixed-signal FPGAs are the only devices that integrate an
FPGA, an ARM® Cortex-M3 processor and programmable analogue, offering
full customisation, IP protection and ease-of-use. Based on Actel’s
propriety flash process, SmartFusion FPGAs are ideal for hardware and
embedded designers who need a true system-on-a-chip (SoC) that gives
more flexibility than traditional fixed-function microcontrollers
without the excessive 23/02/2010 You can Program an Actel Flash Device from a Remote Location  Remote Programming Solutions
ByteTools has a remote programming solution for Actel's flash devices. A programming adaptor (Catapult EJ-1) allows programming and debugging of a device via JTAG, and all this is done remotely through the Ethernet.
As a 27/01/2010 ACAL Discusses Actel's Low-Power FPGAs Take to the Sky With Boeing's 787 Dreamliner  ProASIC3 and ProASICPLUS FPGA Families Designed into Multiple Applications on Boeing's Next Generation Commercial Airliner
Actel has announced that its low-power ProASIC®3 and ProASICPLUS® FPGA families have been designed into flight-critical applications on the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner commercial airliner. Flight computers, cockpit displays, engine control 08/12/2009 Actel Igloo Industry's Lowest-Power FPGAs 
Industry's Lowest-Power FPGAs
The Actel IGLOO series of low-power FPGAs includes IGLOO/e, IGLOO nano, and IGLOO PLUS devices—the industry's lowest-power FPGAs. IGLOO devices are reprogrammable, full-featured flash, low-power FPGAs designed to meet the demanding power and area requirements of today's portable and power-conscious electronics. Based on Actel nonvolatile flash technology and 19/11/2009 Actel's Libero IDE v8.6 Continues to Lead the Way in Low Power Design and Analysis 
New Version Also Features Design Debug
ACAL Technology is please to bring you news of Actel's new Libero IDE. Actel continues to lead the way for low-power designs with the release of Libero® Integrated Design Environment (IDE) v8.6.
The newest version of the Libero IDE offers designers several new features, including upgraded power 19/11/2009 Choosing Your FPGA Guide Released By ACAL  New benchmarks for ultra-low power consumption, highest speed and fast customisation are allowing the latest generation of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to move into applications which have previously been the exclusive domain of application-specific ICs (ASICs).
These new performance levels are giving an additional impetus to sales of FPGAs which, 17/06/2009 Actel RTAX FPGAs Keep Getting Better  Actel Enhances Performance and Reduces Power Constraints in Industry-Leading RTAX Space-Flight FPGAs
Actel Corporation today announced continued improvements in performance and usability of its industry-leading radiation-tolerant RTAX-S and RTAX-SL space-flight FPGAs, offering designers of space applications even greater advantages. Unburdened by the cost and schedule risks associated with radiation-hardened ASICs, the 01/04/2009 Actel Now Shipping the IGLOO PLUS Starter Kit  Actel and ACAL Technology today announced the availability of the low-cost IGLOO PLUS Starter Kit. The new kit features the IGLOO® PLUS family of low-power field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), which offer the industry's best power-, logic- and feature-per-I/O ratios in a programmable device. The kit offers designers low-power consumption 30/03/2009 Actel-The ARM® Processor Designed for FPGAs 
Developed by ARM in collaboration with Actel, the 32-bit ARM Cortex™-M1 processor is the first ARM processor designed for FPGA implementation. With a balance between size and speed, the free Cortex-M1 processor operates at up to 60 MHz and can be implemented in as few as 4,353 tiles. A streamlined 16/03/2009 Actel Announces SoftConsole Version 2.2 — Free Embedded Software Development Environment 
Actel's Embedded Software Development Environment
Next-Generation Software Supports Programming/Debug of Actel IP Processors
Actel Corporation today announced the availability of SoftConsole version 2.2, the next-generation free development environment for embedded design. This new version includes enhanced capabilities for debug and the downloading of programs, including a new flash loader, and support for 09/03/2009 Actel's New Fusion Embedded Development Kit Showcases Unique Mixed-Signal FPGA Design Capabilities  Continuing to demonstrate the integration benefits that mixed-signal FPGAs offer, Actel Corporation today announced the Fusion Embedded Development Kit, enabling system designers to quickly and cost effectively prototype a full system-on-a-chip design. The kit features the Actel Fusion® mixed-signal FPGA, the only one of its kind in the industry, and 03/03/2009 Actel Flash - Industry’s Lowest Power FPGAs  Industry’s Lowest Power FPGAs
The Actel IGLOO families, which include IGLOO/e, IGLOO nano, and IGLOO PLUS devices, are reprogrammable, full-featured flash FPGAs designed to meet the demanding power and area requirements of today's portable and power-conscious electronics. Based on Actel nonvolatile flash technology and single-chip ProASIC®3/E FPGA architecture, the 1.2 V 03/03/2009 Now, more than ever, Power Matters. - Actel 
Now, more than ever, power matters.
Whether you’re designing at the board or system level, Actel’s low-power and mixed-signal FPGAs are your best choice. The unique, flash-based technology of Actel FPGAs, coupled with their history of reliability, sets them apart from traditional FPGAs.
Design for today’s rapidly growing markets of consumer and 26/02/2009 Actel Rolls Out Low-Cost IGLOO nano Starter Kit  Kits Immediately Available for Low-Power, High-Volume Designs
Actel Corporation have introduced new low-cost starter kits for the company's low-power IGLOO® nano FPGAs. Available for $49.95, the nano kits are expected to accelerate industry-wide adoption of Actel's nano FPGAs.
The IGLOO nano kits can be used for prototyping designs targeted to IGLOO 10/12/2008 Libero IDE 8.5 Software Tools Extend Support for Actel New nano FPGAs  Also offers high-speed multiplier instantiation for RTAX-DSP applications
Actel today announced the availability of Libero® Integrated Design Environment (IDE) version 8.5. Actel's comprehensive suite of software design tools extends support for the recently announced nano versions of IGLOO® and ProASIC®3 field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Libero IDE version 8.5 also introduces 03/11/2008 Actel Solutions for the Medical Equipment Market  Low-Power, Mixed-Signal, High-Reliability FPGAs
Increasing healthcare costs, the prevalence of chronic diseases, and aging populations are creating tremendous demand for portable and reliable medical devices to improve global healthcare in all three segments of the medical device market: home-based applications, clinical and diagnostic applications, and imaging.
Many medical devices are microprocessor 27/10/2008 Actel Breaks New Ground with nanoPOWER and nanoSIZE FPGAs 
Actel IGLOO and ProASIC3 nano FPGAs target global portable and consumer customersExtending its position as the leading provider of low-power programmable logic, Actel Corporation has introduced nano versions of its IGLOO and ProASIC3 FPGAs, targeted at the high-volume, portable consumer market. Actel takes power consumption down to as low as 27/10/2008 Industry’s Lowest Power FPGAs  Whether you’re designing today or for the future, power matters. From chip-level to system-level designs, power is the #1 design criterion. Actel’s low-power, flash-based FPGAs are optimized to deliver the power and cost that you need to get in the market quickly—and stay in the market for long-term profitability. Actel’s 23/10/2008 ACAL FAE wins Actel European Field Applications Award  It has just been announced by Actel at a recent conference for Actel and Actel Distributor Field Application Engineers (FAE) who support customers at all stages of the design cycle, that Keith Brown of Acal Technology has been awarded European FAE for 2008.
Keith has worked for ACAL for a number 15/10/2008 Actel and ACAL Low Power Seminars coming to a venue near you!  If your products require miniturisation with low power consumption, and if your company requires portability in one of the many industries including mobile communications, medical, hand-held PDAs, smart battery management, or leaner, greener technology then this series of half day seminars is a must attend.
Along with Actel, ACAL Technology is 13/10/2008 Actel Addresses Miniaturization and Portability Trends in Medical Equipment  Leveraging its history of providing highly reliable FPGAs, Actel Corporation today announced that its mixed-signal Fusion and low-power IGLOO and ProASIC3 families are enabling designers of medical equipment to stay ahead of the growing trends toward miniaturization and portability. The ultra low-power, high-reliability, integration, small footprint and enhanced security advantages 19/09/2008 Actel Launches Flash-Based FPGAs and DSP Capabilities on its RTAX FPGAs into Space  Continuing to deliver innovative silicon solutions that meet the needs of aerospace designers, Actel Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTL) today introduced the industry's first radiation-tolerant, flash-based FPGAs for space-flight applications. The reprogrammability of the new low-power RT ProASIC®3 devices simplifies prototyping and eases hardware timing validation while offering critical immunity to radiation-induced 28/08/2008 Actel Delivers Flash*Freeze Static Power < 5 µW  Enter and Exit Flash*Freeze Mode within 1 µs.
Actel IGLOO, IGLOO PLUS, and ProASIC3L FPGAs include Flash*Freeze technology and are designed to meet the most demanding power and area challenges of today's portable electronics products with reprogrammable, small-footprint, full-featured flash FPGAs.
Flash*Freeze technology provides an ultra-low-power static mode (Flash*Freeze mode) that 12/08/2008 Actel Offers Additional Power Reduction and Simplifies Design Creation With Libero IDE 8.4  Enables Design Reuse; Extends FPGA Core Operating Voltage Range; and Allows Users to Compare and Contrast Multiple Power Scenarios
Actel Corporation announces new power reduction and design creation enhancements to its Libero® Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Giving designers additional power supply options and enabling even lower power consumption, the new Libero 12/08/2008 Actel Expands Military-Qualified Flash-Based FPGA Offerings  Extending its low-power leadership and the reliability benefits of its higher density flash-based FPGA technologies, Actel announces it has added new ProASIC®3 and ProASIC®3EL FPGAs to its military-qualified product offerings. Verified to operate across the full military temperature range (-55°C to +125°C) and ranging in density from 600,000 to 3-million 16/07/2008 ACTEL achieves rigorous ISO/TS16949 automotive quality management systems certification  And raises the Bar for Low-Power FPGAs in High-Reliability Automotive Applications
Giving automotive manufacturers the confidence they need to embed field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) in system-critical automotive applications, Actel Corporation today announced it has received ISO/TS 16949:2002 certification. When combined with AEC-Q100 Grade 1 and Grade 2 qualification of its ProASIC®3 devices 10/07/2008 Actel's FLASH FPGAs for Military and Aerospace  Overview
Actel has a long and respectable 20-year history of providing programmable solutions to the military and aerospace design community. Actel continues to introduce new, high-reliability products, such as the RTAX-S/SL product family (for space) and the flash-based ProASICPLUS family (for military), while still addressing the design challenges and needs of 09/07/2008 Actel Devices are Live at Power-up  Actel Level 0 live at power-up FPGAs are the only devices that can assist in system start-up tasks, system configuration, and supervision during voltage ramp-up. With an Actel device on your board, there is no need for additional live at power-up circuitry, and the device is ready when you most 07/07/2008 Actel Prototyping Solutions for RTAX-S  Delivering Low-Cost Methodology for Validation
Actel provides a comprehensive prototyping portfolio for its aerospace customers. Prototyping options for RTAX-S devices can be classified into three types, described here.
Early Concept Proof — Reprogrammable Flash-Based Devices
For early concept proof of Actel's space-optimized devices, Aldec offersa prototyping solution using Actel's ProASIC®3 flash-based FPGAs, allowing 04/07/2008 Actel is Carefully Managing both Commercial and Space Requirements and Concerns  Some of today's leading-edge research comes directly from the space community
To best serve this market, the electronics community must carefully balance existing trends and requirements in the commercial market with the needs and concerns of aerospace designers. This is of particular importance as space designers are turning more to commercial 03/07/2008 Actel Human Machine Interface (HMI) 
The market for portable applications is growing tremendously, specifically in consumer, medical, industrial, and military markets. In addition to display and storage functions, portable devices have one or more kinds of human machine interfaces (HMI) for the user to interact with the application. In newer portable devices, HMI interfaces such 03/07/2008 Actel Automotive Top Ten  TEN POINTS TO CONSIDER WHEN USING LOGIC IN YOUR NEXT AUTOMOTIVE DESIGN
Automotive electronics designers have been turning more frequently to programmable logic solutions to meet the needs of their next generation designs. FPGAs offer time-to-market benefits along with simplified qualification and greater flexibility in comparison to historic ASIC-based solutions.
Actel is 30/06/2008 Actel Prototyping Adapter Board Inventory Simplification Notice  Dear Customer,
This letter is to inform you that Actel is simplifying the Prototyping Adapter Boards
product list. The adapter boards listed in the “Obsolete Part” column are being removed
from the product list. The adapter boards listed in the “Replacement Part” column are the
alternative boards you can purchase. The replacement part provides 25/06/2008 Product Discontinuation Notice for CorePCI (-EV, -SR, -AR, -M, -RU)  Dear Customer,
Effective immediately, Actel is obsoleting CorePCI and its derivatives (-EV, -SR, -AR, -M, -RU). CorePCIF must be used in all new projects due to the enhancements made to CorePCIF and its full compliance to the PCI 3.0 standard. CorePCIF is available in the following offerings:
If you have any questions, 23/06/2008 Actel Expands Processor Ecosystem for Low-Power FPGAs  Added Software Drivers and RTOS Support Speeds Development with Industry-standard Processors in Actel Devices
Enabling embedded designers to easily add microcontroller functionality to its low-power field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), has broadened its support for industry-standard processors.
Complementing its existing Libero® Integrated Design Environment and CoreConsole IP Deployment Platform, Actel has added 18/06/2008 Actel's RTAX-S has Gone to Mars  First Low-Power FPGA lands on Red Planet
The Phoenix spacecraft includes a Meteorological Station (MET), provided by the Canadian Space Agency. MDA, a leading provider of robotic space systems, led construction of the MET instrument and has integrated Actel’s one-million-gate RTAX1000SCQ352 device into the instrument subsystem. The subsystem is used to 09/06/2008 Actel Board Inventory Simplification Notice  Dear Customers,
This news item is to inform you that Actel has decided to obsolete a number of hardware items because of duplicate functionality with newer hardware solutions. All remaining solutions include the capabilities of the obsolete hardware. The following boards in the "Obsolete Part" column are being removed from the 09/06/2008 Actel Cortex-M1 10 Reasons to use it 
ARM Processors Now Optimized for FPGAs — Recognizing that processor usage in FPGAs is growing, ARM collaborated with Actel to design Cortex-M1, the first ARM processor developed specifically for use in FPGAs.
Cortex-M1 is FREE — This core is FREE for use in Actel flash-based FPGAs, and requires no license fees, 06/06/2008 Fixing your Design Bugs using Actel Supplied Design Tools  In-System debugging with Identify Actel Edition (AE) allows the Actel FPGA designer to quickly find and correct functional design bugs by probing internal signals of the design directly from the hardware at the system speed. The probed signals can be viewed directly onto the RTL view for easy interpretation of 05/06/2008 Actel Digital Signal Processing  The Actel DSP design flow enables the DSP designer to evaluate an algorithm at a higher level of abstraction using Matlab and Simulink along with an exhaustive set of DSP block sets and Actel IP. The DSP designer can then follow a seamless and intuitive design flow to translate, optimize, 29/05/2008 ACTEL STARTER KITS - Complete Kits for Rapid Evaluation 
Actel Starter Kits
Low-cost starter kits are a quick and cost-effective way to assess an FPGA technology, without the expense and time needed to design a specialized evaluation board. Unlike a specific technology demonstrator board, which would only be applicable to one application area, a starter kit board contains the FPGA 21/05/2008 Actel Offers Low Power for the Portable Electronics Market  The portable electronics market is experiencing rapid growth driven by the benefits of added convenience and increased productivity. Portable electronics design is becoming more challenging as new product revisions require additional features and improved performance while demand for longer battery life increases. These demands in the portable market include low 20/05/2008 Actel Offers a Wide Variety of Packaging for a Wide Variety of Solutions  Semiconductor technology is constantly shrinking in size while growing in capability and functional integration. In order to enable next generation silicon technologies, semiconductor packages have also evolved to provide improved performance and flexibility.
For many years, Actel has been at the forefront of innovative packaging technology, providing more than just efficient 15/05/2008 Still Using the Same Old FPGA Supplier?  For many companies, the decision about which FPGA supplier to use was made some time ago. In some instances, the argument for changing suppliers is like asking someone to challenge their own religious beliefs. However, the decision should not be about changing suppliers, but instead about leveraging the right technology 15/05/2008 Judge the Chip by Its Cover 
Packaging is one of those areas where everyone really wants the same thing, which is a package with just enough I/Os to fit their design in the smallest footprint possible at the lowest cost. So basically everyone wants or needs a custom package.
Actel has delivered all the standard packaging you 15/05/2008 Actel's Storage Solutions  Overview
Storage technology has made tremendous progress in the last decade. The rapid advances and ready availability of small form factor hard disk drive (HDD) and flash storage devices is driving the explosion of portable devices in the market place. Actel offers storage solutions that cover most of the hard drives 14/05/2008 Actel's IGLOO™ Icicle™ Kit can save you Time, Power and Money  Actel’s IGLOO Icicle Kit, based on the 5-μW IGLOO device, is a low-cost, portable, low-power demonstration platform powered by built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery, USB cable, or external power. The Icicle evaluation board enables you to measure power consumption (dynamic, static, and Flash*Freeze™) with the core operating at either 1.2 V 13/05/2008 Actel Low Power Portable Solutions 
Overview
The portable electronics market is experiencing rapid growth driven by the benefits of added convenience and increased productivity. Portable electronics design is becoming more challenging as new product revisions require additional features and improved performance while demand for longer battery life increases. These demands in the portable market include low 12/05/2008 How to Make a Power smart Decision  Actel has a long history of offering low-power devices. The company's nonvolatile flash technology is inherently low power.
Recently, Actel has worked hard to optimise power consumption and to maximise your ability to reduce power. They also recognise that each designer requires something different. Yes, you need low power, but do you 29/04/2008 Industry’s Lowest Power FPGAs Portfolio - Actel  The electronics industry continues to become more power-conscious and designs become more complex. With its feature-rich products, Actel provides devices that minimize power while meeting the performance and features required. Actel’s four low-power FPGA families are optimized for logic, I/O, and performance, and offer the most secure, firm-error immune, live-at-power-up, 24/04/2008 Comparing Actel Low Power FPGAs with other Industry Leaders  Power has become the new battleground for programmable logic companies as demand for low-power design grows rapidly and many programmable logic device (PLD) vendors work to improve device power characteristics. In fact, several suppliers of programmable logic devices claim low-power superiority. However, using vendor published data, power estimation tools, and 17/04/2008 Actel Programmable Logic Devices for use in Automotive Applications  Programmable logic devices are increasingly being used in automotive applications to replace ASICs and ASSP devices. Actel FPGAs are based on nonvolatile technology (flash and antifuse). Actel FPGAs are not susceptible to neutron-induced firm errors, and this makes them the only FPGA technology suitable for critical automotive applications such as 16/04/2008 Solutions for the Portable Market  The portable electronics market is experiencing rapid growth driven by the benefits of added convenience and increased productivity. Portable electronics design is becoming more challenging as new product revisions require additional features and improved performance while demand for longer battery life increases. These demands in the portable market include low 15/04/2008 Actel beats competition with new Low Power I/O-Optimised  IGLOO PLUS Family Delivers Industry’s Best Power, Area, Logic and Features per I/O
Broadening its extensive portfolio of low-power programmable solutions for power-conscious designs, Actel Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTL) today introduced IGLOO™ PLUS, a new family of low-power field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) with the industry’s best power-, area-, logic- and feature-per-I/O 11/03/2008 Actel - System Management in a Single Chip 
Actel, the world leader of mixed-signal FPGAs, now offers the only single-chip system management solution.
System management continues to gain importance in the design of all electronic systems. Smaller process geometries drive more multi-volt devices and are more susceptible to voltage and temperature fluctuations. While system management designs can run 10/03/2008 Actel Fusion PSC Delivers Highest Accuracy for Intelligent System Management and Industrial Control  Enhanced Calibration Capability Addresses Applications Requiring ADC Accuracy Better Than One Percent
Enabling lower system power and higher accuracy for intelligent system management and industrial control applications, Actel Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTL) today announced an enhanced software-based calibration capability for its mixed-signal Fusion (see other pages on our website) programmable system chips (PSCs). 22/02/2008 Actel Offers New Low-Power IGLOO and ProASIC3 FPGAs for 99 Cents  New 15,000-gate Devices Are Attractive for Power- and Price-sensitive Applications
Actel Corporation today announced the addition of two new members to its award-winning IGLOO and successful ProASIC3 field-programmable gate array (FPGA) families starting at just 99 cents. Comparable in density to 128 macrocell complex programmable logic device (CPLD) offerings, the new 14/02/2008 Netlist-based SmartPower tools using Actel's Libero IDE v8.2  Actel provides accurate, comprehensive power analysis tools for its FPGAs and offers accurate prediction that gives straightforward analysis of design options to help meet your portable system needs. The pre-netlist Power Calculator tool helps in analyzing design implementation options for rapid power analysis scenarios and design partitioning. The netlist-based SmartPower 14/02/2008 Actel Silicon Explorer II  Silicon Explorer II shortens the FPGA design verification process by providing a tightly integrated suite of tools and capabilities that enable rapid isolation of functional and timing problems—there's no need to relayout, recompile, or redo any part of your design to complete the verification process. By removing the guesswork associated 05/02/2008 Actel Igloo Starter Kit ***Win a Universal Battery Charger*** The IGLOO Starter Kit is fully RoHS-compliant and is a complete package that enables you to quickly evaluate Actel's IGLOO family and prototype your design. The Actel IGLOO devices are the lowest power FPGAs available in the world. Low dynamic power consumption, combined with low static power consumption and Flash*Freeze 28/01/2008 Actel Announces Availability of MIL-STD 883 Class B Qualified Four-Million Gate RTAX4000S  Achieving another milestone in its overall strategy to help designers to maximize reliability, minimize power consumption, and save board space and weight in mission-critical space systems, Actel Corporation today announced it has completed the stringent MIL-STD 883 Class B qualification of its four-million gate radiation-tolerant RTAX-S field-programmable gate array (FPGA). 08/01/2008 Actel's ProASIC3L Family Balances Low Power, Speed and Low Cost  Further extending its industry-leading portfolio of low-power programmable solutions, Actel Corporation today introduced the ProASIC3L family of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for designers of high-performance, power-conscious systems. Featuring 40 percent lower dynamic power and 90 percent lower static power than its previous-generation ProASIC3 FPGAs, the new flash-based family combines dramatically 04/01/2008 LCD Types and Controllers using Actel IGLOO  LCD Types
Different manufacturing processes create the two major types of LCD panels:
STN: A super twisted nematic (STN) LCD uses monochrome passive matrix technology to provide color contrast. It is an older technology that is cheaper to manufacture, but typically provides lower image quality and slower response time compared to others. 04/01/2008 Actel Video Demo Kit  The display panel industry is undergoing significant changes. Driven by the market demand for portable systems, the small-medium panels are now available in different sizes, resolutions, and color depths. Manufacturers are developing panels at a rapid rate with each new one offering improved features at a reduced cost. System designers 20/12/2007 Igloo Starter Kit The IGLOO Starter Kit is fully RoHS-compliant and is a complete package that enables you to quickly evaluate Actel's IGLOO family and prototype your design.The Actel IGLOO devices are the lowest power FPGAs available in the world. Low dynamic power consumption, combined with low static power consumption and Flash*Freeze technology, 20/12/2007 Actel delivers industry's first 4 x 4 mm package for FPGAs  Achieving a significant milestone for the industry, Actel Corporation today announced it is offering its low-power 5µW (microwatt) IGLOO field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) in a 4-millimeter (mm) package with a 0.4-mm ball pitch, the smallest package for any programmable logic device on the market. Complementing its existing portfolio of small 20/12/2007 Actel Libero IDE v8.1 FPGA Design Software 
Actel Libero IDE v8.1 maximises power efficiency with new power-driven layout and advanced power analysis 18/12/2007 Actel Drives Industry's Lowest Power FPGAs into Portable Displays With a continued focus on delivering low-power solutions for emerging and high-growth portable applications, Actel Corporation today announced the availability of flexible solutions for liquid crystal display (LCD) control applications. The new IGLOO Video Demo Board, LCD adaptor boards with LCD panels, the IGLOO Video Demo Kit (IVDK) and display-related 18/12/2007 Actel's IGLOO Icicle Kit  Actel's IGLOO Icicle Kit based on the 5-µW IGLOO device, is a low-cost, portable, low-power demonstration platform powered by built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery, USB cable, or external power. The Icicle evaluation board enables you to measure power consumption (dynamic, static, and Flash*Freeze™) with the core operating at either 1.2 V 18/12/2007 Battery-Powered Icicle Kit Based on Industry's Lowest Power FPGA  Further highlighting the advantages of the industry's lowest power field-programmable gate array (FPGA) for portable solutions, Actel Corporation today announced the new Icicle™ Kit.. Leveraging the company's 5-microwatt (µW) IGLOO™ FPGA, the kit showcases the ultra low-power attributes, flexible implementation options and battery-saving advantages of IGLOO for portable applications. The 26/07/2007 ACAL Presented Award at Cobham Defence Communications ACAL Technology was recently presented with an award by Cobham Defence Communications of Blackburn. This was on the occasion of Cobham being presented with the Queen's Award for Enteprise (International Trade). Cobham Defence Communications is part of the Cobham Group of companies.ACAL's award recognises the significant contribution made towards the 29/06/2007 Actel Launches Low-Power RTAX-SL FPGAs for Space Applications Extending its low-power offerings to the space community, Actel Corporation has developed the low-power, radiation-tolerant RTAX-SL field programmable gate array (FPGA) family specifically targeted at high-reliability space-flight designs. The industry's lowest power programmable logic solution for space applications, the new RTAX-SL family offers approximately 50 percent lower standby current than 20/06/2007 Actel's Innovative SmartDesign Functionality Eases System-level Design Underscoring its commitment to deliver and support power-efficient solutions, Actel has enhanced its Libero™ Integrated Design Environment (IDE) to further ease the system-level design process when using its field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). With SmartDesign, a new design entry capability that enables users to design at a higher level of abstraction, 21/05/2007 Read the latest issue of the Actel eZone Newsletter Processor usage in FPGAs is growing rapidly. For companies without ultrahigh volumes, the primary obstacle has been the contract negotiations and fees typically associated with licensing models for industry-leading processor cores.Leveraging its partnership with ARM, Actel removes this obstacle, enabling designers to utilize the industry-standard processor of their choice, such 19/03/2007 ACTEL AND ARM DEVELOP HIGH-PERFORMANCE 32-BIT PROCESSOR OPTIMISED FOR FPGAS Actel has announced the availability of its implementation of the ARM® Cortex™-M1 processor, a small, high-performance, 32-bit soft core co-developed by the companies for optimal use in field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Removing the license and royalty fees typically associated with licensing models for industry-leading processor cores, Actel offers free access 16/01/2007 ACTEL REFINES LIBERO IDE TO IMPROVE DESIGN FLOW FOR LOW-POWER IGLOO FPGAS AND MIXED-SIGNAL FUSION PSCS Actel announces that the latest version of the Actel Libero™ Integrated Design Environment (IDE) offers full support for Actel's newest flash-based field-programmable gate array (FPGA)solutions, the low-power IGLOO™ family. The Libero IDE 7.3 also provides new easy-to-use features that will aid designers utilizing the mixed-signal Actel Fusion™ Programmable System Chip 22/11/2006 ACTEL'S RTAX-S DEVICE FAMILY HITS MAJOR RELIABILITY MILESTONE ACTEL, the leading provider of high-reliability field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for space, today announced that its radiation-tolerant RTAX-S product family has successfully accumulated more than 1.4 million device-hours of life test data, which has yielded a failure in time (FIT) number of 12.76. A benchmark for the reliability of a 26/09/2006 Actel's New Silicon Sculptor3 Programming Tool Actel announces the new Silicon Sculptor 3, which is based on the latest, advanced seventh generation programmer technology from BP Microsystems. Silicon Sculptor 3 offers USB 2.0 high speed support, allowing parallel programming when connected via chained USB hubs with up to 12 such programmers with a single PC and 25/09/2006 Actel Introduces its New IGLOO low power, reprogrammable FPGAs for Portable Applications The Actel IGLOO™ family of reprogrammable, full-featured Flash FPGAs is designed to meet the demanding power and area requirements of today's portable electronics. Based on the Actel nonvolatile Flash technology and single-chip ProASIC3 FPGA architecture, the 1.2 V / 1.5 V operating voltage family offers the industry's lowest power consumption—as
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Attacking power consumption from both the chip and the system levels, Actel Corporation’s innovative FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) and programmable system chip solutions (PSC) enable power efficient design. Actel can also supply high performance IP cores and a full range of support including Development Software and Tools.
