Company Overview
Highlights
Fabless chipmaker: Outsources manufacturing to chip foundries.
World’s leading supplier of FPGAs based on anti-fuse technology.
Incorporated in 1985 in Sunnyvale, California, Actel Corporation provides clients with field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and other integrated circuits, as well as hardware and software design services. Its clients—including such heavyweights as Boeing, Cisco Systems, and Siemens—are primarily manufacturers of communications, computer, industrial control, military and aerospace, and other electronics systems. In response to the current emphasis on security in society overall and business, Actel has introduced new Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and Data Encryption Standard (DES) intellectual property (IP) cores optimized for Actel architectures.