This might be a little dated (Aug 9) but worth a read if you haven't already seen
it:
Actel (NASDAQ:ACTL) , Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) form alliance
Reuters, Friday, August 09, 1996 at 13:56
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 9 (Reuter) - Actel Corp and
Synopsys Inc said Friday they have formed a venture to boost
the performance of certain semiconductor products.
The two said they will jointly develop complex system
programmable gate arrays, or SPGAs, using components of more
traditional field programmable gate arrays, FPGAs, and mask
programmed application-specific integrated circuits, ASICs.
By doing so, semiconductor chip designers should be able to
develop and produce programmable "systems-on-a-chip" for
complex products in communications, digital signal processing,
multimedia, embedded systems and computers. |
