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Actel
Type	Public (NASDAQ: ACTL)
Founded	1985
Headquarters	Mountain View, CA, USA
Key people	John East
Industry	Integrated Circuits
Products	FPGAs
Revenue	$191 million in 2006
Employees	~570
Website	www.actel.com

Actel Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTL) is a manufacturer of single-chip FPGA solutions. Actel is most well known for their anti-fuse and flash based FPGAs. It is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices in New Jersey, France, India, Ireland and Germany.

[edit] History & Competition

A few years after Xilinx founded the FPGA industry with the first commercially viable programmable chip in 1985, Actel became the first serious competitor.^[2]

Actel introduced their first programmable product in 1988 and by 1993 served about 18 percent of the market.^[2] However, today Altera and Xilinx have largely crowded out Actel, with Xilinx alone representing over half of the entire market.^[3]^[4]

[edit] Technologies

Actel develops FPGAs that are used in various commercial, industrial, military and space applications. The product families are either anti-fuse (SX-A and Axcelerator families) based or flash based (Fusion, ProASIC/3/3E and IGLOO families), making them programmable yet non-volatile.

Actel is primarily focused on FPGAs for use in military and space applications. Several Actel FPGA families are radiation hardened and support triple module redundancy (TMR) either directly in hardware or via special EDAC firmware.

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b "Corporate Factsheet" (PDF). Actel Corporation. March 2007. http://actel.com/documents/corp/CorporateFactSheet.pdf. Retrieved 2007-04-13.
^ ^a ^b Funding Universe. "Xilinx, Inc." Retrieved January 15, 2009.
^ Jonathan Cassell, iSuppli. "A Forgettable Year for Memory Chip Makers: iSuppli releases preliminary 2008 semiconductor rankings." December 1, 2008. Retrieved January 15, 2009.
^ John Edwards, EDN. "No room for Second Place." June 1, 2006. Retrieved January 15, 2009.

[edit] External links

[factsheet-0] "Corporate Factsheet" (PDF). Actel Corporation. March 2007. http://actel.com/documents/corp/CorporateFactSheet.pdf. Retrieved 2007-04-13.

[xilinx-1] Funding Universe. "Xilinx, Inc." Retrieved January 15, 2009.

[2] Jonathan Cassell, iSuppli. "A Forgettable Year for Memory Chip Makers: iSuppli releases preliminary 2008 semiconductor rankings." December 1, 2008. Retrieved January 15, 2009.

[3] John Edwards, EDN. "No room for Second Place." June 1, 2006. Retrieved January 15, 2009.

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Contents

[edit] History & Competition

[edit] Technologies

[edit] References

[edit] External links