EDN Editors Include Actel's RTAX-DSP in Hot 100 Electronics Products of 2008
Mountain View, CA, January 13, 2009 —
In keeping with annual tradition, editors of Electronic Design News (EDN) magazine sift through hundreds of product announcements each year and pick the new products and technologies that generate the most attention from their readers. Actel's RTAX-DSP FPGA was selected as one of 2008's Hot 100 Electronics Products in the Digital, Memory and Programmable IC products category.
For more than 20 years, Actel has been the leader in providing radiation-tolerant antifuse programmable logic devices for the mil/aero and space industries, a capability unparalleled by any other FPGA provider. Last September, Actel announced another industry-leading innovation with the addition of DSP capabilities to its radiation-tolerant RTAX line of FPGAs. The result is a dramatic increase in device performance and utilization.
About RTAX-DSP FPGAs
Actel's RTAX-DSP FPGAs offer high performance at densities of up to four million equivalent system gates and 840 user I/Os for space-based applications. Embedded radiation-tolerant DSP Mathblocks feature 18 bit x 18 bit multiply-accumulate functions, enabling efficient implementation of DSP building blocks such as finite impulse response (FIR) and infinite impulse response (IIR) digital filters, fast Fourier transforms (FFT) and inverse Fourier transforms (IFT) and discrete cosine transforms (DCT). The RTAX-DSP family features up to 120 Mathblocks, each capable of operating at 125 MHz over the full military temperature range (-55 deg C to 125 deg C), for a total throughput of 15 billion multiply/accumulates per second (15 GMACS).
For more information about Actel's line of radiation-tolerant FPGAs, please visit www.actel.com.
To read more about EDN's Hot 100 Electronics Products of 2008, click here: http://www.edn.com/article/CA6622869.html?rid=1849962977&nid=2431
About Actel
Actel is the leader in low-power FPGAs and mixed-signal FPGAs, offering the most comprehensive portfolio of system and power management solutions. Power Matters. Learn more at www.actel.com.
Contact: Gwen Carlson, Microsemi Corporation, 949.221.7173
