Actel's Radiation-Tolerant FPGAs Receive EDN's Hot 100 Products of 2003 Award
RTAX-S Family "Dazzles" Readers With High
Density, On-Board RAM and SEU Immunity
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., December 22, 2003 —
Actel
Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTL) today announced that EDN has placed the company's
high-density, space-optimized RTAX-S family of field-programmable gate array
(FPGA) devices on its list of Hot 100 Products of 2003. In a special report
in the December 11, 2003 issue, EDN stated that this year's Hot 100 Products
were singled out from among thousands of new electronic products released
in 2003 and were chosen for superior innovation, high levels of reader interest
and a "dazzling" array of features.
"Since its release in May of 2003, the RTAX-S family has garnered a
very positive response from the military and aerospace communities as the
only viable radiation-tolerant alternative to ASICs that meets the density,
performance and radiation-tolerance requirements for many satellite applications,"
said Barry Marsh, vice president of product marketing at Actel. "We
are honored that the readers and editors of EDN have also recognized the
RTAX-S as one of this year's best. This acknowledgment further reinforces
Actel's leadership in the market and serves as a testament to Actel's long-standing
commitment to delivering high-quality, reliable solutions for some of the
most demanding space applications."
The RTAX-S family of FPGAs offers inherent single-event latchup (SEL) immunity;
>37MeV-cm2/mg SEU capability; and total ionizing dose (TID) performance
in excess of 200 Krads. The family also features embedded RAM with an upset
rate of <1E-10 errors/bit-day with error detection and correction (EDAC).
With 2-million system gates, the RTAX2000S, the largest device in the family,
contains support for up to 288k bits of embedded SRAM; 684 user I/Os; and
10,752 SEU-hardened registers.
Based on Actel's AX architecture and scalable platform, the RTAX-S devices
include several key architectural advancements: an embedded FIFO controller;
a fully fracturable SuperCluster that allows high logic module utilization;
a core tile structure that provides tighter clock skew across the device;
and a flexible clock structure with eight global clocks available equally
across the chip, eliminating the need for clock floorplanning and easing
design migration.
About Actel
Actel Corporation is a supplier of innovative programmable logic
solutions, including field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) based on antifuse
and flash technologies, high-performance intellectual property (IP) cores,
software development tools and design services, targeted for the high-speed
communications, application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) replacement
and radiation-tolerant markets. Founded in 1985, Actel employs approximately
500 people worldwide. The Company is traded on the Nasdaq National Market
under the symbol ACTL and is headquartered at 2061 Stierlin Court, Mountain
View, CA, 94043-4655. Telephone: 888-99-ACTEL (992-2835). Internet: http://www.actel.com.
Contact: Ferda Mehmet, A&R Edelman, 415.308.7877
