The ported cores leverage the
advanced features of the ProASIC3/E devices, including 66 MHz 64-bit PCI
performance, on-chip user flash memory, enhanced I/O and memory, and secure
in-system programmability (ISP).
Pricing for the ProASIC3 devices starts at $1.50, with seven devices
priced under $10 each in 250K quantities. Telephone: 888-99-ACTEL (992-2835).
Intended for algorithm developers and hardware designers who are
retargeting software algorithms to FPGAs and ASICs, AccelCore IP cores
deliver synthesizable, pre-verified DSP functions for rapid
development designs requiring matrix inversion or factorization.accelchip.

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, Hal Barbour, president
"The combination of our proven general-purpose IP cores, including
processors, interfaces and application-specific functions for multimedia, with
Actel's fast, secure ProASIC3/E programmable devices, provides a low-risk
method for our customers to introduce highly differentiated products to market
on time and on budget.-- --AccelChip Inc.

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The 90 optimized DirectCore and
CompanionCore solutions offered today include:

-- 10/100 and Gigabit Ethernet MAC controllers; Packet-Over-SONET, HDLC
controllers; and PL3 and Utopia Level 3 interfaces for use in
communications applications, such as wireless LANs, xDSL, SONET/SDH and
DWDM.263 and MPEG-4 IP cores to the new ProASIC3/E families."

CAST, Inc. Actel's
new, low-cost, high-performance FPGAs and our communications expertise and IP,
especially our Gigabit Fibre Channel and 10/100/1G IP cores, provide a
compelling solution for multi-Gigabit telecom and communications
applications.

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Pricing and Availability
Actel DirectCore IP prices start at $500 and the cores can be ordered
through Actel's sales offices .actel.

Actel DirectCore and CompanionCore Solutions
Actel offers its own system-level IP solutions, called DirectCores,
specifically designed and optimized for use with Actel devices . Many of our customers have
chosen Actel's flash product families due to their inherently secure nature,
and we are excited about the processing speed which will be possible with our
Fast AES cores on ProASIC3/E. Initial offerings provided in the new
AccelCore(TM) product line include matrix inverse and factorization
cores used in applications such as beamforming, software-defined
radio , radar/sonar, Kalman filtering, and other wireless applications.

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Designed for ease-
of-use and targeted at system-level integration, our IPmodule Series of
products and substantial experience with system -on-chip design services for
Actel FPGAs will help customers shorten their time to production.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

MILPITAS, Calif.

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They have been fully synthesized and validated on Xilinx
(NASDAQ: XLNX) and Altera (NASDAQ: ALTR) FPGAs.
"Matrix factorization and inversion are used with algorithms
utilizing linear algebra techniques, such as adaptive filters, which
are used in a wide range of applications from radar to global
positioning. AccelCore is a trademark of AccelChip Inc.

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com. Actel CompanionCore products can
be ordered directly from the partner. Founded in 1985, Actel employs more than 500
people worldwide.actel."

Intelliga Integrated Design , Stephen Ede, marketing director
"Intelliga is pleased to support the flash-based ProASIC3/E FPGAs with our
bus interface IP cores.com/products

About AccelChip

AccelChip Inc.

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We are pleased to port our Viterbi, Reed-Solomon, JPEG,
H. Our customers benefit from the combination of our high-quality
cores with the reliability and security delivered by Actel's nonvolatile
technology .

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Actel's CompanionCore
partners have ported nearly 70 cores.com

AccelChip, AccelWare, and AccelView are registered trademarks of
AccelChip Inc.

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-- SDR and DDR memory controllers; forward error correction (FEC)
technology, such as Reed Solomon encoders and decoders; a digital video
broadcast (DVB) modulator, and encryption cores for use in consumer
multimedia and personal security devices. All cores are offered with a free
evaluation version so a designer can review the features of the IP without
risk. Internet:
http://www."

Memec Design, Randy Rhodes, director
"Memec Design offers a variety of off-the-shelf and custom IP cores
optimized for Actel programmable logic devices and provides immediate
expertise in FPGA design, IP creation , customization and integration, along
with other value-added design services.,
the industry's only provider of automated flows from MATLAB(R)
algorithms to silicon, has become the industry's first company to
provide fixed-point linear algebra intellectual property (IP) as
stand-alone RTL cores. The demands of
new linear algebra applications are increasing the demand for IP cores
that can achieve higher performance and reduce form factors attainable
by integrating DSP capabilities in FPGAs and ASICs.
"AccelCore matrix cores are truly the first of their kind in the
industry , and they can save customers months of RTL coding. The company develops and markets design
tools , integrated verification flows, and parametric IP toolkits that
combine to automate the development and implementation of DSP
algorithms in FPGAs and ASICs.

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Helion, Graeme Durant, CEO
"Actel's ProASIC3/E architecture delivers unsurpassed security
capabilities, making it an ideal platform for our certified AES encryption
solutions -- Tiny AES, Standard AES and Fast AES. Through our comprehensive support of
the ProASIC3/E products, we aim to help enhance our customers' competitive
position by minimizing development costs and time to market. AccelCore IP cores are off-the-shelf , pre-verified DSP
cores that negate the need for designers to write their own core in
VHDL or Verilog, then build a testbench to verify the model," said
Michael Bohm, CTO and vice president of Engineering, AccelChip. For more information
and datasheets on the cores, please visit www.

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Editor's Note: The Actel name and logo are trademarks of Actel
Corporation.

IP Vendors Supporting the New ProASIC3/E Families

4i2i, Martyn Riley, CEO
"Our cost-effective IP cores are a strong complement to Actel's
nonvolatile, flash-based FPGAs, enhancing designer productivity and reducing
time to market for customers requiring forward error correction or multimedia
functionality in the communications, consumer, industrial, military and
aerospace industries.

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MorethanIP, Francois Balay, CEO
"MorethanIP has a long-standing relationship with Actel and is pleased to
support the new ProASIC3/E FPGAs with our high-performance IP cores .

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Delivering a broad IP library at the time of
product introduction enables Actel's customers to begin designing complete
systems with the ProASIC3/E devices immediately.
"Our new ProASIC3 and ProASIC3E devices deliver very low cost and high
performance, and we are dedicated to helping customers successfully integrate
IP onto these world-class nonvolatile, reprogrammable devices right out of the
gate," said Yankin Tanurhan, senior director, applications and IP solutions at
Actel . Building on the success of Actel's flash-based ProASIC Plus family,
the fine-grained, single-chip architecture and nonvolatile flash configuration
memory make Actel's ProASIC3/E offering a strong ASIC alternative. All other trademarks and servicemarks are the property of their
respective owners ."

Eurekatech, Simon Lau, president
"Over the past few years, we have had multiple customers implement our
proven PowerPC interface and PCI bridge cores into Actel flash- and antifuse -
based FPGAs.

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-- 8051, Z80 and 6809 8-bit MCUs; Serial Communication , SPI, I2C, SDLC;
and CAN and USB controllers for use in a variety of embedded systems
applications.
Evaluation copies of each AccelCore IP core are available and
utilize ModelSim (R) to test and simulate the functionality, speed, and
FPGA resource utilization and allocation, allowing the user to observe
how the cores will perform in a complete design.
AccelChip's Web address is www.

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50 as
Industry's Lowest Cost FPGA Solution"). The Company is traded on the Nasdaq National Market under
the symbol ACTL and is headquartered at 2061 Stierlin Court, Mountain View,
CA, 94043-4655 ."

The
VHDL/Verilog cores are highly optimized in terms of speed, power, and
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"With 90 IP cores and a host of value-added design services offered
through our Solution Partner Program, customers can accelerate time to market
and minimize design costs and risks for ProASIC3 /E designs immediately."

Comprehensive IP and Design Support for ProASIC3/E Families
Actel has ported more than 20 of its DirectCores to the ProASIC3/E
devices, including CorePCI and CoreDDR, a DDR SDRAM memory controller that
utilizes the DDR-capable I/Os on the ProASIC3E devices . Together, the DirectCores and
CompanionCores span a variety of markets including telecommunications ,
consumer multimedia, networking, industrial control, encryption, automotive,
military/aerospace and computing. For further information about
pricing and availability, please contact Actel. The company
also offers third-party IP blocks, called CompanionCores, that have been
tested and verified in Actel FPGAs. Customers will benefit from our specialized IP
portfolio, including our high-performance iCAN core and the gate-efficient
design of our iLIN IP, which are suitable for a variety of applications
addressed by Actel's low-cost, reliable ProASIC3/E products.

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About ProASIC 3/E
The industry's lowest cost FPGA solution, Actel's new live at power-up,
low-power, highly secure ProASIC3/E devices deliver PCI performance and are
the industry's first FPGAs with on-chip user flash memory."

Inicore, Hans Kuffer, vice president of business development
"With the new high-density, high-performance ProASIC3/E devices, Actel
continues to make inroads into the traditional ASIC space. As a result,
most designers have been compelled to implement these linear algebra
algorithms in C on DSP or general-purpose processors.

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"
The first release of AccelCore IP cores from AccelChip performs
matrix inversion and factorization using two methods -
triangular-orthogonal factorization , or QR factorization, as well as
Cholesky factorization.accelchip.

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Actel Announces Immediate Availability of 90 Intellectual Property Cores for New ProASIC3 and ProASIC3E FPGA Families

With an Extensive DirectCore and CompanionCore IP Portfolio, Designers Can
Quickly Implement Designs Leveraging Advanced Device Features

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. Free evaluations are available for download
from Actel's Web site: http://www. is the industry's only provider of MATLAB-based
algorithmic synthesis solutions, including DSP intellectual property
(IP), for embedded DSP design.

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Actel DirectCores and CompanionCores are available as RTL, netlist and
evaluation versions and include a software testbench . Covering communications, consumer,
automotive, industrial, and military and aerospace applications , the cores
offer a variety of functions, including communication controllers and
interfaces, processors and peripherals, bus interfaces and memory controllers,
as well as encryption, multimedia and error correction.
Actel DirectCores and CompanionCore products offer seamless implementation
through Actel's hardware and software development tools, documentation, and
quality service and support, thereby streamlining the design process and
enabling faster time-to-market while minimizing design costs and risks. The nine devices
in the ProASIC3/E families, ranging in density from 60,000 to 3-million system
gates, deliver technology-leading integrated secure in-system programmability
(ISP).com. QR factorization provides a robust, general
method while Cholesky factorization provides a faster, more compact
core for certain classes of applications.

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AccelChip's proven solution integrates
the domain-specific DSP design environment (MATLAB) with
industry-standard hardware design flows from Aldec, Altera, Cadence,
Mentor Graphics, Synplicity, Synopsys, The MathWorks, and Xilinx.

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All DirectCores and CompanionCores come
complete as pre-implemented, synthesizable building blocks and have been
thoroughly tested and verified in Actel FPGAs. The
ProASIC3/E design methodology supports popular FPGA and ASIC tool flows,
reducing time to market and permitting designers to migrate easily between
FPGA and ASIC solutions for applications in the consumer, networking and
communications , in-cab automotive, computing and avionics markets.
Until now, performing matrix factorization and inversion in
hardware has been difficult because the algorithms are complex and
highly sensitive to numerical problems, particularly when using
fixed-point arithmetic preferred in high-performance ICs.

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, Actel Corporation
(Nasdaq: ACTL) today announced the availability of 90 intellectual property
(IP) cores to support its new ProASIC3 and ProASIC3E device families,
demonstrating the company 's commitment to the successful deployment of its new
field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) (See separate press release entitled,
"Actel's Third-Generation Flash-Based Devices Set the Bar at $1 .

About Actel
Actel Corporation is a supplier of innovative programmable logic
solutions , including field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) based on antifuse
and flash technologies, high -performance intellectual property (IP) cores,
software development tools and design services, targeted for the high-speed
communications, application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) replacement and
radiation-tolerant markets.
Founded in 2000, AccelChip is located in Milpitas, California, and has
design centers in Portland, Oregon, and Carlsbad, California. All other
trade names referenced are the service marks, trademarks, or
registered trademarks of their respective companies.