Actel Welcomes New Design Services Companies to Solution Partners Program
Partners Complement Actel FPGAs with Design Services, Hardware and
Software Tools
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 12, 2004 —
Actel Corporation (Nasdaq:
ACTL) today welcomed five new members to its Solution Partners Program,
expanding the program to include 18 members. Introduced last November,
the program is a cooperative effort between Actel and third-party providers
of field-programmable gate array (FPGA) design services, embedded software
and hardware products to help designers accelerate time to market for
Actel-based designs. The program provides customers with access to a
broad range of design resources, application expertise and products from
strategic partners worldwide to complement Actel's products and services.
Joining the program are Barco-Silex, Capitol Automation, Comit Systems,
Intrinsix Corporation and Silicon Interfaces, all of whom develop customer-specific
electronic products for the wired and wireless communications and networking
markets.
"We have been very pleased with the positive reception of our Solution
Partners Program, which was established as part of our continuing commitment
to provide customers with comprehensive system solutions to ease the
design of our programmable logic devices," said Yankin Tanurhan,
senior director, applications and IP solutions at Actel. "Each
of our partners offer products and services to complement our FPGA devices,
as well as our broad range of DirectCore and CompanionCore intellectual
property. The addition of these five design service companies will provide
additional products and design resources to enable our customers to simplify
their designs and reduce design costs, risk and time to market."
Actel's Solution Partners Program has 18 partners worldwide, all with
proven experience with Actel's development tools and FPGA devices. Product
segments represented by the partners include embedded software, diagnostic
hardware and turnkey design services as well as a broad selection of
IP products. The participating design services and consulting firms have
design centers worldwide and specialize in a wide range of vertical applications.
All products and services offered by Actel's Solution Partners Program
are provided by the partners, who are responsible for pricing, warranty
and technical support to customers. New partners will be added on an
ongoing basis. For more information, please refer to the IP 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, which have
been tested and verified in Actel FPGAs. Covering applications ranging
from embedded systems to consumer and communications, the cores offered
include bus interfaces, communication controllers and interfaces, processors
and peripherals, encryption and memory controllers, as well as multimedia
and error correction.
Actel DirectCore 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.
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 more than 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: Stephanie Mrus, Actel Corporation, 650.318.4614
