Underscoring its commitment to provide its customers with complete system solutions, Actel Corporation today unveiled its new Solution Partners Program, a cooperative effort between Actel and ...
A couple of weeks ago I attended a very interesting workshop. Hosted by Avnet Memec and Actel at my local Avnet office, this one-day workshop gave me hands-on experience working with Actel's ...
One of the best features of using FPGAs for a design is the inherent parallelism. Sure, you can write software to take advantage of multiple CPUs. But with an FPGA you can enjoy massive parallelism ...
Every new hardware device that offers some kind of benefit compared to legacy devices faces the task of overcoming the immense inertia that is imparted to a platform by the software that runs upon it.
It’s been a few years since the introduction of the first Open Source toolchain for FPGAs. You would think a free and Open way to program FPGAs would be a boon for hardware development, but so far ...
FlashPro4 is hardware programmer supporting Actel's flash FPGAs: the IGLOO series and ProASIC3 series (including RT ProASIC3), SmartFusion and Actel Fusion families. It also supports FPGA embedded ...
The Phoenix Mars rover uses a Meteorological Station (MET) created by robotic space systems provider MDA that incorporates Actel radiation-tolerant RTAX-S FPGAs in its design. Actel's one-million gate ...
The numbers of applications using FPGAs are on the rise. They have long been used for avionics and DSP-based applications, but are finding many new applications in which their flexible and ...