Actel Introduces PowerPC™ Interface Cores From Newest CompanionCore Partner, Eureka Technology
Optimized IP Cores and Actel FPGA Solutions Well
Suited for Communications, Military, Aerospace, Industrial and Automotive
Systems Utilizing PowerPC Microprocessors
SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 05, 2003 —
Actel Corporation
(Nasdaq: ACTL) today announced that a new CompanionCore Alliance program
partner, Eureka Technology, Inc., has optimized three PowerPC™ interface
intellectual property (IP) cores for use with Actel's nonvolatile ProASICPLUS,
Axcelerator, SX-A and RTSX-S field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). With
support for the PowerPC 603, 604, 740, 750 and 8260 bus protocols, the EP201
PowerPC Bus Master, EP100 PowerPC Bus Slave and EP300 PowerPC Bus Arbiter
cores from Eureka Technology also support many advanced features of the PowerPC
CPU bus architecture, including burst data transfers, data pipelining, extended
data transfer sizes and support for multiple bus masters. The combination
of Actel's single-chip, nonvolatile FPGAs and Eureka's silicon-proven IP
cores is ideal for communications, military, aerospace, medical, industrial
and automotive systems utilizing or connecting to PowerPC microprocessors.
"Eureka Technology's membership in our CompanionCore Alliance program
provides system designers with ready access to the company's proven PowerPC
interface cores as optimized building blocks for our ProASICPLUS,
Axcelerator, SX-A and RTSX-S FPGAs," said Yankin Tanurhan, senior director,
Applications and IP Solutions Group at Actel. "The combination of our
secure, low-power FPGAs with Eureka's PowerPC IP cores will not only accelerate
development cycles for customers leveraging this bus architecture, but will
also allow them to quickly develop communications, military, aerospace and
industrial systems while reducing design risks and decreasing costs."
"Today, Actel and Eureka already have mutual customers implementing
our cores in Actel FPGAs. We are very excited about becoming a member of
Actel's CompanionCore Alliance program and are equally excited to develop
products targeted for the company's successful FPGA solutions," said
Simon Lau, president of Eureka Technology. "Eureka's silicon- and production-proven
PowerPC IP solutions optimized for Actel's FPGAs allow system designers to
accelerate the development of system-on-chips (SoCs) and enhance productivity
for our mutual customers."
Pricing and Availability
Optimized for Actel's FPGAs, the three PowerPC interface cores are available
today in VHDL and Verilog RTL source code formats and EDIF netlist formats
directly from Eureka Technology. List prices for a single-use license start
at $6,000. Detailed product information for each core is available from the
Eureka Technology Web site at http://www.eurekatech.com or
via Actel's Web site at http://www.actel.com/products/ip/.
Actel DirectCore and CompanionCore Solutions
Actel offers its own system-level IP solutions, called DirectCores, specifically
designed and optimized for use with Actel devices. The company also offers
third-party IP blocks, called CompanionCores, that have been tested and verified
in Actel FPGAs. Covering applications ranging from embedded systems to consumer
and communications, functions include bus interfaces, communication controllers
and interfaces, processors and peripherals, encryption, memory controllers
as well as multimedia and error correction.
Actel DirectCores and CompanionCore products offer seamless implementation
through Actel's suite of internal and third-party EDA development tools,
documentation, and quality service and support, thereby streamlining the
design process, enabling faster time-to-market and minimizing design costs
and risks. For more information on the CompanionCore Alliance program, DirectCores
or CompanionCores, visit the IP section on the Actel Web site at http://www.actel.com/products/ip/.
About Eureka Technology
Eureka Technology is a leading intellectual property (IP) provider
for FPGA and ASIC designers. The company offers a wide range of silicon-proven
system core logic functions and peripheral functions to support different
CPU and bus standards, including PowerPC, ARM™, MIPS™, ARC™ and
SH2/3/4™, PCI™, Cardbus™, DDR SDRAM and PCMCIA™. These
IP cores are designed to improve the design time-to-market delay, eliminate
design risks, and reduce development costs for SoC designs. Founded in 1993,
the company has a strong customer base in the United States, Japan and Europe.
For more information about the company, please visit the Web site at http://www.eurekatech.com or
send email to info@eurekatech.com.
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 955 East Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale,
Calif., 94086-4533. Telephone: 888-99-ACTEL (992-2835). Internet: http://www.actel.com.
Contact: Ferda Mehmet, A&R Edelman, 415.308.7877
