PR Newswire
Mar 26, 2007 08:00 ET

Actel Turns Hot Ideas Into Cool Solutions at 2007 Embedded Systems Conference

Company Demonstrates How to Leverage ARM(R) Processors in Actel Flash-based FPGAs

SAN JOSE, Calif., EMBEDDED SYSTEMS CONFERENCE, March 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Actel Corporation will highlight its transformation of "hot ideas" into "cool" flash-based field programmable gate array (FPGA) solutions through booth demonstrations and training sessions at the 2007 Embedded Systems Conference (ESC), running Tuesday thru Thursday, April 2-5, at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, booth #632.

Visitors to Actel's booth can discover how to utilize ARM processors, including the "hot" new FPGA-optimized Cortex-M1(TM) processor co-developed by ARM and Actel, in Actel's nonvolatile, M1-enabled Fusion Programmable System Chips (PSCs) and ProASIC3 FPGAs.

Actel will also demonstrate its "cool" system management capabilities and MicroTCA reference design solutions. The Actel System Management Development Kit, a custom monitoring graphical user interface (GUI) and a MicroTCA chassis, leveraging Actel's Fusion(TM)-based power module reference design, will be running in the booth.

Both automated and live demonstrations of the Actel tool suite will also be available in the booth to demonstrate system builders, compiling, debugging and many more software features.

Training Sessions

In partnership with Avnet, Actel is offering 90-minute technical training sessions. The first session details an end-to-end tool flow for designing Actel FPGAs with an embedded ARM7 soft core. This hands-on experience will show how to leverage Actel's Fusion mixed-signal FPGAs, the Actel Libero Integrated Design Environment and SoftConsole software development environment to create a hardware design for a system management application.

The software accompaniment to the first workshop, the second training session, is for both software and hardware design engineers that develop software for embedded processors. Utilizing Actel's SoftConsole software development environment, participants will create a system management application in C, compile using the GNU C/C++ compiler and use the GDB debugger to explore memory, CPU registers and step through executing code on the target hardware.

Date & Time Type Session Title Location

Tuesday, April 3 Training "Integrating an ARM7 Convention
1:00-2:30 PM CPU Soft Core in an Center
Wednesday, April 4 Actel FPGA" Room N
8:30-10:00 AM
12:30-2:00 PM

Tuesday, April 3 Training "Software Development Convention
3:00-4:30 PM for ARM7 CPUs Embedded Center
Wednesday, April 4 in an FPGA" Room N
10:30-12:00 PM
2:30-4:00 PM

To view Actel training session details or reserve a spot, visit: www.actel.com/company/events/esc/

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 www.actel.com. Telephone: 888-99-ACTEL (992-2835).