Military and Aerospace Solutions

Actel has a 20-year history of providing innovative, programmable digital logic solutions to the military and aerospace design community. Actel continues to introduce new, high-reliability products, such as the RT ProASIC®3, RTAX-S/SL, and RTAX-DSP product families (for space) and the ProASIC3 and ProASIC3EL families (for military), while still addressing the design challenges and needs of emerging military and aerospace applications. Combining these durable and feature-rich devices with Actel's extensive portfolio of industry-proven IP cores, best-in-class software tools, and a technical support team dedicated to military/aerospace products, Actel delivers high-reliability solutions that are unparalleled in this industry.

Actel products offer the following benefits to military and aerospace customers:

• High levels of integration without ASIC NRE charges and schedule risk
• Variety of device screening levels to support avionics, military, and space applications
• Reprogrammability without sacrificing reliability (Military ProASIC3/EL, RT ProASIC3)
• Embedded, hardwired radiation-tolerant DSP blocks (RTAX-DSP)
• Extended temperature range
  • -55°C to 125°C for military and space offerings
• Plastic and hermetically-sealed ceramic package offerings
• Immune to configuration upsets (heavy ions in space systems, neutrons in ground and air systems)
• Single-chip solution
• Live at power-up
• Radiation-hardened by design (RTAX-S/SL, RTAX-DSP, RTSX-SU)
• AS9100 certification
• Comprehensive product change notification process
• Regularly published reliability data with failure analysis reports
• Extensive in-house testing capabilities

Actel supports high qualification levels for commercial avionics, military, and space applications. Products today are available with military temperature screening (plastic and ceramic packages) or MIL-STD-883 Class B processing (ceramic packages only). Most space products are available with a higher level of screening (Actel Extended Flow). Actel is currently performing qualification activities in pursuit of its intent to achieve full QML Class V certification for the RTAX-S/SL and RTAX-DSP product families.

The time from design to production is a critical element in the aerospace and defense market, and system designers require a reputed supplier that can deliver entire solutions. Actel antifuse and flash families of FPGAs provide a graceful path from prototyping to production, using Actel standard software tools. A robust line of software IP cores available from Actel and its Partners can be utilized to solve many design challenges.

Due to the high reliability needs of military and aerospace applications, customers demand solutions that include both hardware and software to quickly implement and test their designs in extreme environments. Actel Corporation has recognized this need and has worked with leading solution providers to simplify the development task and speed up the design process, which gives designers more time to focus on the critical aspects of their design.

• DO-254 Verification
• DO-254-Certified IP Solutions
• RTAX-S/SL Prototyping with Flash Devices
• RTAX-S/SL LEON3 Development Board

For technical support on RH and RT FPGAs that are regulated by International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), contact us via the email or phone listed below. Alternatively, within My Cases, select Yes in the ITAR dropdown list. For a complete list of ITAR-regulated Actel FPGAs, visit the ITAR web page.

   Email: tech_itar@actel.com
   Phone (NA): 888.988.ITAR
   Phone (Int'l): +1 650.318.4900