Actel Announces Availability of MIL-STD 883 Class B Qualified Four-Million Gate RTAX4000S
High-density
Radiation-tolerant FPGAs Represent the Most Reliable Solution for Mission-critical
Space Designs
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., January 28, 2008 —
Achieving
another milestone in its overall strategy to help designers to maximize
reliability, minimize power consumption,
and save board space and weight in mission-critical space systems,
Actel Corporation today announced it has completed the stringent MIL-STD
883 Class B qualification of its four-million gate radiation-tolerant RTAX-S field-programmable
gate array (FPGA). The high-density RTAX4000S device has completed
1,000 hours of high-temperature operating life (HTOL) testing and nearly
80,000 total hours of life testing data to date. This device specific
testing data is in addition to the more than 2,000,000 device hours
of testing and rapidly accumulating flight heritage achieved by the
remainder of the RTAX-S family. The qualification of the device, combined
with its usable error-corrected on-board memory and large number of
user I/O, make it ideal for high-bandwidth processing applications
in spacecraft payloads. Rigorous testing and qualification of the RTAX4000S
toward QML Class Q and QML Class V certification continues.
"We
continue to build and support our highly successful RTAX-S product
portfolio," said Ken O'Neill, director of marketing, military and aerospace
at Actel Corporation. "No other FPGA delivers the high density, radiation
tolerance and the reliability of the RTAX4000S device. To further meet
customer requirements, we are testing and qualifying these parts to
the most stringent standards — from 883 Class B to QML Class
V, assuring our customers that these programmable solutions can withstand
even the most extreme conditions in space."
Hardened by design against radiation single-event upsets (SEUs),
the nonvolatile RTAX4000S requires no radiation mitigation techniques.
Competing high-density FPGA solutions require user-instantiated triple
module redundancy (TMR), which can consume more than two-thirds of
the device's available logic. The RTAX4000S offers the inherent flexibility
of the programmable fabric, delivering cost and time-to-market advantages
over radiation-hardened (RH)-ASICs with their long lead times and high
up-front tooling charges that, in combination with minimal volume requirements
for many space applications, often translate to higher total solution
costs.
Availability
The RTAX4000S device, the largest member of the successful RTAX-S
family, is available now. For further information about pricing and
availability, please contact Actel.
About Actel
Attacking power consumption from both the chip and the system levels,
Actel Corporation's innovative FPGAs and programmable system chip
solutions enable power-efficient design. 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.
Contact: Stephanie Mrus, Actel Corporation, 650.318.4614
