PR Newswire
Jan 10, 2006 08:00 ET

Industry Accolades Roll in for Actel

CoreMP7 Wins Electronic Products Product of the Year and EDN Hot 100; Fusion PSC Also Named to EDN Hot 100 List

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- As proof of the company's focus on developing and delivering market-leading solutions, Actel Corporation (NASDAQ:ACTL) today announced that its CoreMP7, the industry's only soft ARM7 microprocessor core for field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), has been named to EDN magazine's Hot 100 Products of 2005 list and has been selected as "Product of the Year" by Electronic Products magazine. Actel's recently announced Fusion Programmable System Chip (PSC), the world's first mixed-signal FPGA, was also named to the Hot 100 Products list.

After the rigorous evaluation of several hundred new product nominations and announcements, the editors at Electronic Products magazine singled out Actel's CoreMP7 for the prestigious Product of the Year award based on its significant advancement in technology, innovation in design, substantial gain in price-performance and overall impact on future designs.

The CoreMP7 and the Actel Fusion PSC were both selected by EDN's technical editors from among hundreds of newsworthy items that appeared in the publication during the year based on their significance to the design engineering community.

Jim Harrison, digital IC editor at Electronic Products magazine stated, "With an implementation cost as low as $2.75, Actel's CoreMP7 stood out among thousands of new products this year for its promise to bring the ARM7 technology to an even wider range of applications and volume points, including markets that could not previously afford individual access to this valuable technology."

"Over the course of a year, EDN covers an incredible number of products spread across the breadth of the electronics industry," said Maury Wright, editor in chief of EDN. "We choose the 100 we think will prove most significant and useful to the design engineer."

Dennis Kish, vice president of marketing at Actel, added, "The announcements of CoreMP7 and Fusion PSC represented significant advancements for the design industry in 2005. These new products will unleash designer creativity in unprecedented ways, and we are honored to receive this recognition from both EDN and Electronic Products magazines for our achievements."

About CoreMP7

As the first soft ARM7 microprocessor core for FPGAs, CoreMP7 brings the flexibility and fast time to market of programmable logic to the industry- standard ARM7 processor technology. In partnership with ARM, Actel offers the 32-bit ARM7 family microprocessor for use in its products free of license fees, greatly reducing the cost of entry and increasing designer access to system on chip (SoC) development with the ARM7 family. Exploiting the benefits of Actel's flash-based architecture, CoreMP7 is available for use in ARM-ready versions of Actel's flash-based FPGAs. The devices are optimal solutions for value-based consumer, industrial, automotive and high-reliability applications.

About Actel Fusion PSC

The Actel Fusion PSC satisfies the demand from system architects for a device that simplifies design and unleashes their creativity. As the world's first mixed-signal FPGA family, Fusion integrates mixed-signal analog, flash memory and FPGA fabric in a monolithic PSC. These devices enable designers to quickly move from concept to completed design and deliver to market feature-rich systems. The Actel Fusion PSCs bring the benefits of programmable logic to application areas including: power management, smart battery charging, clock generation and management, and motor control, that until now have only been served by either costly and space-consuming discrete analog components or mixed-signal ASIC solutions.

About Actel

Actel Corporation is the leader in single-chip FPGA solutions. The company is traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol ACTL and is headquartered at 2061 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, Calif., 94043-4655. For more information about Actel, visit http://www.actel.com/ . Telephone: 888-99-ACTEL (992-2835).

Source: Actel Corporation

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