New Core Expands Actel's Spaceflight Solutions

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 19, 2010 — Actel Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTL) today announced CoreFFT v4.0, an intellectual property (IP) core providing Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) capabilities to DSP solutions in high reliability, radiation-tolerant spaceflight applications. Actel's recently qualified RTAX-DSP FPGAs (see Actel's RTAX-DSP FPGAs Achieve MIL-STD-883 Class B Qualification) integrate radiation-tolerant math blocks with the spaceflight-proven industry-standard RTAX-S FPGA architecture. CoreFFT v4.0 uses these on-chip resources to deliver a flexible, fully configurable radix-2 decimation-in-time (DIT) burst I/O FFT for high reliability, radiation-tolerant applications.

CoreFFT v4.0 implements the efficient Cooley-Tukey algorithm for computing discrete Fourier transforms, delivering a hardware accelerated flexible, area efficient and fully configurable radix-2 DIT burst I/O FFT. CoreFFT not only utilizes both radiation-tolerant FPGA and mathblock fabric resources, but also delivers an increased upper data width limit to reduce quantization noise.

CoreFFT v4.0 Key Features:

• Highly parameterizable DirectCore RTL generator optimized for the RTAX-DSP family
• Forward and inverse complex FFT
• Transform sizes from 32 to 8,192 points

• 8 to 32 bits input/output real and imaginary data and twiddle coefficients
• Two's complementary I/O data

• Bit-reversed or natural output order
• Selection of unconditional or conditional block floating point scaling
• Embedded RAM-block-based twiddle look up table
• Built-in memory buffers with optional extensive or minimal memory buffering configurations
• Handshake signals to facilitate easy interface to user circuitry
• CoreFFT is optimized for use in the following devices in the RTAX-DSP family:
  • RTAX2000D
  • RTAX4000D

Availability

CoreFFT v4.0 is now available for ordering. To order contact Actel's worldwide sales team.

About Actel

Actel is the leader in low power FPGAs and mixed signal FPGAs, offering the most comprehensive portfolio of system and power management solutions. Power Matters. Learn more at www.actel.com.