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System Solutions

System Management: Actel Fusion integrates system management functions such as power and thermal management, remote communications, and system clocking in a single mixed-signal programmable system chip.
TCA: The Telecom Computing Architecture (TCA) encompasses a series of standards defined by the more than 250 members of the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG®), including AdvancedTCA® (ATCA), AdvancedMC™ (AMC), and MicroTCA™. These standards reduce the cost of telecommunications, industrial, medical, and military equipment.
Display: Actel's IGLOO FPGAs provide a flexible and scalable solution for display control in the power-conscious portable market. Actel and its partners offer versatile demonstration platforms and solutions to enable rapid design development.
Storage: Actel offers a wide range of storage controller solutions for the portable market to address the power requirements of handheld devices.
HMI: For a hardware designer of a portable application, the rapidly changing requirements for Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs), small form factors, and low-power designs pose significant challenges. Actel's line of ultra-low-power, reprogrammable flash FPGAs provides solutions to address these challenges.
Motor Control: Throughout the world, motors are used a primary source of energy. Actel addresses the need for sophisticated, cost-effective, high-efficiency motor control with solutions for DC motors.
Actel DSP: Actel provides the Digital Signal Processing (DSP) designer with a complete flow, from algorithm evaluation using Matlab and Simulink to place-and-route with Libero IDE tools, along with an exhaustive set of DSP blocksets and Actel DirectCore IP.
Co-Verification: A Windows®-based hardware/software co-verification solution targeted for Actel's CoreMP7, Actel's soft IP ARM7 core, allowing debug of both hardware and software aspects of designs targeted for CoreMP7 in Actel devices.
Remote Programming: A remote programming solution, via Ethernet, for use with Actel's flash devices.

Technology Solutions

Power: Low system power consumption in portable and battery-operated applications.
Soft/Firm Errors: Actel offers extremely reliable antifuse and flash-based FPGAs that are immune to configuration upsets due to neutron and alpha radiation.
Design Security: Actel's portfolio of nonvolatile, single-chip FPGAs offers virtually unbreakable design security to meet your most demanding design requirements.
Packaging: Actel delivers packages that provide the necessary mechanical and environmental protection to ensure consistent reliability and performance.
Live at Power-Up: Actel FPGAs assist in system start-up tasks, system configuration, and supervision during voltage ramp-up.
Total System Cost: Actel nonvolatile antifuse and flash-based FPGA solutions offer cost savings by eliminating support devices required by volatile SRAM-based FPGAs.

Vertical Markets

Portable: Actel offers the total solution for portable design with low-power flash FPGAs, system solutions, and IP cores serving the requirements of low power, small size, and rapid time-to-market in portable electronics.
Military & Aerospace: Recognizing the high reliability needs of military and aerospace applications, Actel offers solutions that include both hardware and software to quickly implement and test designs in extreme environments.
Automotive: Actel offers the industry's broadest automotive product portfolio to address the unique needs of vehicle designers.