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| Type | Public (NASDAQ: ACTL) |
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| Founded | 1985 |
| Headquarters | Mountain View, CA, USA |
| Key people | John East, CEO & President Maurice Carson, CFO Esmat Hamdy, Sr. Vice President, Technology & Operations Jay Legenhausen, Sr. Vice President, Worldwide Sales Fares Mubarak, Sr. Vice President, Marketing & Engineering |
| Industry | Integrated Circuits |
| Products | FPGAs, Embedded Processors |
| Revenue | $218 million in 2008[1] |
| Employees | 500+[1] |
| Website | www.actel.com |
Actel Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTL) is the leading supplier of nonvolatile, low-power FPGAs, mixed-signal FPGAs, and programmable logic solutions. The company's mission is to manage power consumption at both the chip and system levels, leveraging the industry's lowest power FPGAs and unique mixed-signal FPGAs, to offer system designers a competitive edge.
Actel's history of reliability, coupled with its unique flash-based technology, sets it apart from traditional FPGA manufacturers. Actel's FPGA solutions are ideal for consumer, industrial, medical, automotive, space and military/aerospace markets, and especially where power matters. Actel is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and has offices worldwide.
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Actel became a publicly traded company in 1985 and quickly became known for its high-reliability and antifuse-based FPGAs, dominating the military and aerospace markets.[2]
In 2000, Actel acquired GateField which expanded Actel's antifuse FPGA offering to include flash-based FPGAs. In 2004, Actel announced it had shipped the one-millionth unit of its successful flash-based ProASICPLUS FPGA. With well over 1,000 design starts worldwide, this product had the fastest customer acceptance rate in Actel's history. This provided evidence that customers were finally recognizing that the unique combination of nonvolatility and reprogrammability of these single-chip devices, coupled with their firm-error immunity, low power and inherent security, made them a cost-effective solution for the value-based FPGA market.[3]
In 2005, Actel introduced a new technology known as Fusion, designed to bring true programmability to mixed-signal solutions. Fusion was the first technology to integrate mixed-signal analog capabilities with flash memory and FPGA fabric in a monolithic device.[4]
In 2006, helping to address the tight power budgets of the portable market, Actel introduced the IGLOO® FPGA, the industry's lowest power FPGA. The IGLOO family of FPGAs was based on Actel's nonvolatile flash technology and the ProASIC®3 FPGA architecture. With 5 µW static power, the flash-based family consumed 4x less static power than its nearest competitor and delivered more than 5x the battery life of the leading PLDs in portable applications, thus setting a new bar for low power consumption.[5] The IGLOO FPGA series continued to grow with the introduction two new IGLOO derivatives in 2008: IGLOO PLUS FPGAs with enhanced I/O capabilities, and IGLOO nano FPGAs, the industry's lowest power solution at only 2 µW. A nano version of ProASIC3 also became available in 2008, boasting a wide selection of low-cost, small footprint packages.
Altera and Xilinx are the other key players in the market, however their main focus is on SRAM FPGAs.
Actel's portfolio of FPGAs is based on two types of technologies: antifuse-based FPGAs (Axcelerator®, SX-A, eX, and MX families) and flash-based FPGAs (Fusion, IGLOO, and ProASIC3 families). Each technology has its own inherent benefits.
Actel's antifuse FPGAs have always been known for their high-reliability, nonvolatility, live at power-up operation, true single-chip form factor, and security. Actel's flash-based FPGA families include these same characteristics and are also reprogrammable and extremely low power.
Actel also develops system-critical FPGAs (RTAX and ProASIC3 families), including extended temperature automotive, military, and aerospace FPGAs, plus a wide variety of space-class radiation-tolerant devices. These flash and antifuse FPGAs have unmatched levels of reliability and firm-error immunity, along with two decades of proven reliability in mission-critical applications.
Actel FPGAs can be used in a wide range of applications, ranging from consumer handheld applications, to automotive, medical, communication, industrial, military, and aerospace markets.
Actel has received numerous awards over the years for their industry-leading FPGAs. Actel IGLOO FPGAs have won many awards, including: EDN China Innovation Award (3 years in a row), Electronic Products China Product of the Year Award, Best Electronic Design Technology Award, Portable Design Editor's Choice Award, and EDN Hot 100 Products of the Year Award. The Actel Fusion® mixed-signal FPGA has also won several awards, among them being the ECN Technology Award and the EEPW Editor's Choice Award. Other Actel award-winning products include: RTAX, ProASIC3, and Libero® Integrated Design Environment (IDE).[6]
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