Actel Readies New FPGAs for 2006 Debut

摘要

Actel Corp. is hoping a new line of user-programmable computer chips it is developing will be less susceptible to radiation than the company's previous problem-plagued models. Representatives from Mountain View, Calif.-based Actel said in an Aug. 22 interview that the company's new line of field programmable gate array (FPGA) computer chips will be available beginning in 2006. A defect was discovered in 2004 in the previous model of Actel's FPGAs. One antifuse was the source of the problems, leading the entire device to fail for some customers, Ken O'Neill, director of military and aerospace product marketing at the company, said Aug. 26. An antifuse is a device that performs the opposite function of a fuse and creates conductive paths between transistors.