- Actel
Infobox_Company
company_name = Actel
company_
company_type = Public (nasdaq|ACTL)|
homepage = [http://www.actel.com/ www.actel.com]
foundation = 1985
key_people =John East
location =Mountain View, CA
industry =Integrated Circuit s
products =FPGA s
revenue = $191 million in 2006cite web | title=Corporate Factsheet | url=http://actel.com/documents/corp/CorporateFactSheet.pdf| publisher=Actel Corporation|month=March | year=2007| accessdate=2007-04-13|format=PDF]
num_employees = ~570Actel Corporation (nasdaq|ACTL) is a manufacturer of single-chip FPGA solutions. Actel is most well known for their anti-fuse and flash based FPGAs. It is headquartered in
Mountain View, California , with offices inNew Jersey ,France ,Ireland andGermany .Technologies
Actel develops FPGAs that are used in various commercial, industrial, military and space applications. The products families are either anti-fuse (SX-A and Axcelerator families) based or flash based (Fusion and ProASIC families), making them programmable yet non-volatile.
Actel is the main supplier of FPGAs for use in military and space applications. Several Actel FPGA families are radiation hardened and support triple module redundancy (TMR) either directly in hardware or via special EDAC firmware.
A limited 1-year
freeware version of their EDA software called 'Libero' is available for use with some of their non high performance chips. They are the second FPGA vendor to distribute a nativeLinux freeware synthesis toolchain.Competitors
Competitors to Actel include
Altera ,Lattice Semiconductor ,QuickLogic , andXilinx .References
External links
* [http://www.actel.com Corporate website]
* [http://www.actel.com/products/aero/index.html Aerospace and high reliability devices at Actel]
* [http://www.fpgajournal.com/articles/20040323_east.htm FPGA Journal article on Actel CEO John East]
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