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Actel Corporation (formerly NASDAQ:ACTL) (now Microsemi) is a manufacturer of nonvolatile, low-power field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs),〔Dylan McGrath, EETimes. "(Actel FPGAs cut power drain to target mobile market )." Aug 30, 2006. Retrieved June 12, 2012.〕 mixed-signal FPGAs,〔Paul Buckley, EETimes. "(Micrium supports Actel SmartFusion FPGAs )." March 8, 2010. Retrieved June 12, 2012.〕 and programmable logic solutions.〔EETimes India. "(Actel designs IP core for nonvalatile FPGAs )." Mar 23, 2006. Retrieved June 12, 2012.〕〔EETimes Asia. "(Seiko Epson goes with Actel FPGAs for multimedia viewers )." Dec 10, 2008. Retrieved June 12, 2012.〕〔EETimes Asia. "(Free controller cores roll for Actel FPGAs )." Feb 8, 2007. Retrieved June 12, 2012.〕 It is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices worldwide. == History and competition == Actel became a publicly traded company in 1985 and became known for its high-reliability and antifuse-based FPGAs, used in the military and aerospace markets.〔Andrew Hamm, SJ Business Journal. "(The sky's the limit for Actel chips in planned European satellites )." August 1, 2003. Retrieved January 11, 2010.〕 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 flash-based ProASICPLUS FPGA.〔Company Release. "(Actel Achieves Key Milestone with its Cost-Effective, Flash-Based FPGAs; Company Ships More Than 1 Million Units )." March 29, 2004. Retrieved January 11, 2010.〕 In 2005, Actel introduced a new technology known as Fusion to bring FPGA 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.〔EETimes. "(Actel Claims To Usher In Era Of 'Programmable System Chip' )." July 18, 2005. Retrieved January 11, 2010.〕 In 2006, to address the tight power budgets of the portable market, Actel introduced the IGLOO FPGA. The IGLOO family of FPGAs was based on Actel's nonvolatile flash technology and the ProASIC 3 FPGA architecture.〔Company Release. "(Actel Brings Portable Market In from the Cold With Industry's Lowest Power FPGA Family )." August 28, 2006. Retrieved January 11, 2010.〕 Two new IGLOO derivatives were added in 2008: IGLOO PLUS FPGAs with enhanced I/O capabilities, and IGLOO nano FPGAs, the industry's lowest power solution at 2 µW. A nano version of ProASIC3 also became available in 2008. In 2010, Actel introduced the SmartFusion line of FPGAs. SmartFusion includes both analog components and a programmable flash-based logic fabric within the same chip. SmartFusion was the first FPGA product to additionally include a hard ARM processor core.〔EETimes. "(Actel rolls mixed-signal FPGA with hard ARM core )." March 2, 2010. Retrieved May 25, 2010.〕 Altera and Xilinx are the other key players in the market, however their main focus is on SRAM FPGAs. Lattice Semiconductor is another competitor.〔Electronics Weekly. "(FPGA / PLD )." Retrieved June 13, 2012.〕〔John Edwards, EDN. "(No room for Second Place )." Jun 1, 2006. Retrieved Jan 10, 2013.〕 In November 2010, Actel Corporation was acquired by Microsemi Corporation.〔Microsemi press release "(Microsemi Completes Tender Offer for Actel Corporation )"〕〔Mark Lapedus, EE Times. "(Microsemi buys Actel for $430 million )." Oct 4, 2010. Retrieved Jan 10, 2013.〕〔MELISSA KORN, Wall Street Journal. "(Microsemi to Buy Rival Actel for $430 Million )." Oct 4, 2010. Retrieved Jan 10, 2013.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Actel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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