Actel Wins IEC DesignVision Award at DesignCon 2006
Company's New Fusion PSCs Honored as Unique Semiconductor
Product
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., February 13, 2006 —
Actel
Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTL) today announced that its Actel
Fusion™ Programmable System Chip (PSC), the industry's first mixed-signal
field-programmable gate array (FPGA), was named the winner of the International
Engineering Consortium's DesignVision award in the category of Semiconductors
and ICs. An industry panel, sponsored by the IEC, selected the Actel
Fusion PSCs based on multiple criteria, including innovation, uniqueness,
market impact and customer benefits. The Actel Fusion devices enable
designers to quickly move from concept to completed design and deliver
feature-rich systems to market with its unprecedented integration of
mixed-signal analog, embedded flash memory and FPGA fabric in a single-chip
PSC.
"Amongst hundreds of nominated semiconductor products, we are honored
that our Actel Fusion PSC product has been recognized as innovative in
the industry," said John East, president and CEO, Actel. "Actel
takes seriously the opportunity to help customers not only meet their
specific design requirements, but also bring the benefits of programmable
logic to application areas that have traditionally been served by costly
and space-consuming discrete analog components or mixed-signal ASIC solutions."
Actel Fusion Programmable System Chips
The Actel Fusion family offers the unprecedented integration of programmable
analog, up to 8Mbits of high-performance flash memory, and up to 1.5M
system gates of in-system programmable (ISP) FPGA fabric in a monolithic
PSC. Extending the core benefits of the company's single-chip flash FPGA
technology - live at power-up (LAPU), low power consumption, design security,
firm-error immunity and low total system cost - the Actel Fusion devices
provide an excellent alternative to costly and space- and time-consuming
mixed-signal ASIC design. Further, with the integration of core analog
blocks, the new Actel Fusion PSCs are well suited for applications in
the industrial, medical, military/aerospace, communications, consumer
and automotive markets.
About Actel
Actel Corporation is the leader in single-chip FPGA solutions. The Company
is traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol ACTL and is
headquartered at 2061 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, Calif., 94043-4655.
For more information about Actel, visit http://www.actel.com.
Telephone: 888-99-ACTEL (992-2835).
Contact: Ferda Mehmet, A&R Edelman, 415.308.7877
