Actel
| Actel Corporation
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US0049341052 |
| founding | 1985 |
| Seat | Mountain View , United States |
| sales | $ 191 million (2006) |
| Branch | Integrated Circuits |
Actel was a manufacturer of electronic semiconductor components , especially field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
On October 4, 2010, the acquisition of Actel by Microsemi was announced.
Products
Actel had specialized in the military, aerospace industries.
Actel's product range mainly included FPGAs that are optimized for low power consumption. Some of these also have an integrated flash memory . Radiation-hard FPGAs were also on offer, as well as mixed-signal FPGAs. As researchers at the University of Cambridge have established, these, in particular the "military grade" ProASIC3 marketed as a chip with "... one of the highest levels of design security in the industry ..", also have an intentionally implemented hardware backdoor .
Other major manufacturers of freely programmable FPGAs and CPLDs are Xilinx , Altera and Lattice .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release (PDF; 68 kB) on the takeover of Actel by Microsemi.
- ↑ Sergei Skorobogatov, Christopher Woods: "Breakthrough silicon scanning discovers backdoor in military chip" (PDF; 859 kB)