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To: easytarget who wrote (3706)	6/8/1999 9:16:00 AM
From: R Petersen	Respond to of 4005

Thanks for the input "Easy". Once again we are in the dark as to what is going on there. I guess we will have to watch the news coming from Actel to see what may be happening at "G".(jmo)

To: easytarget who wrote (3706)	6/8/1999 9:35:00 AM
From: R Petersen	Respond to of 4005

EZ, thanks again for the info on the R B board on the DAC info and your thoughts. This appears to be positive. (just my opinion) Frustrated and tired of waiting, but still hanging in there.

To: easytarget who wrote (3706)	6/8/1999 8:22:00 PM
From: ToolManInc	Respond to of 4005

easytarget...remember this from March 15, 1999. Seems like things have changed as far as releasing information. ''I am very excited about this key achievement by the GateField and Siemens teams,'' stated Dr. Tim Saxe, GateField's president and CEO. ''We were able to keep this development project to its publicly announced schedule. We now present what we consider to be the world's first real re-programmable ASIC in a leading edge 0.25 micron embedded Flash technology. This achievement demonstrates the compatibility of GateField's Flash memory/programmable switch combination with mainstream Flash technology. In addition, GateField's Flash-based technology results in a substantial density advantage over SRAM based FPGAs, using the same process geometry. This makes our technology an ideal candidate to address emerging embedded re-programmable market needs.''

To: easytarget who wrote (3706)	6/9/1999 11:31:00 AM
From: Tom Shutters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4005

EZ, thanks for all the hard work and diligence. I found an Actel article that I thought you and the guys at the Raging Bull site might find interesting. Sometimes you get very lucky. I doubt that the part mentioned in the article is a Gatefield part. "USU Takes the Blame for Failure Of $80 Million Satellite Mission" "Three months after a NASA satellite carrying a Utah-built telescope spun out of control, Utah State University engineers have found why the $80 million mission failed: An unexpected power surge from a $2,000 electronic circuit made the telescope cover pop off prematurely." "Harry Ames of USU's Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) said Thursday the integrated circuit -- essentially an inch-square computer chip made by Actel Corp. of Sunnyvale, Calif. -- was not defective, but simply behaved in a way never before detected." "Because USU engineers did not find the problem beforehand, Ames said he is to blame for the failure of NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) shortly after its March 4 launch on a four-month mission to study how stars and galaxies evolved after the universe formed."... ..."the power surge -- which lasted a fortieth of a second -- also went undetected by NASA engineers who tested WIRE before launch."... sltrib.com:80/1999/jun/06041999/nation_w/110250.htm abcnews.go.com:80/sections/science/DailyNews/satellite990604.html