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To: Douglas Raushel who wrote (3918)	1/13/2000 10:13:00 AM
From: Tom Shutters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4005

Doug, agree - someone is buying - eventually they will file a form 4 and then we will know who it is. Actel was the last one I know of that filed a form 4. Tom

To: Douglas Raushel who wrote (3918)	1/25/2000 9:23:00 PM
From: Tom Shutters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4005

"Synplicity boosts Synplify in V5.3" ..."Synplify 5.3 supports Altera's Apex 20KE and Actel's ProASIC A500K devices"... "Wakening From A Short, Restless Sleep -- Altera, Xilinx spearhead resurgent FPGA, CPLD market" ..." Actel Corp., Sunnyvale, Calif., is pushing its fine-grained, antifuse-based SX family of FPGAs into performance-driven CPLD applications." "While antifuse FPGA architectures have been overshadowed in recent years by advances in SRAM-based approaches, the technology offers a number of attractive characteristics. One of those is speed. Actel's latest antifuse rendition, the SX-A family introduced in September, takes advantage of 0.25-micron process technology to deliver what the company describes as the fastest FPGAs on the market." "Operating at 300 MHz internally and able to drive systems rates as high as 250 MHz, the SX-A devices will take direct aim at traditional CPLD slots in networking applications." "Another advantage of Actel's antifuse architecture is that it yields devices that not only operate at high speeds, but do so while consuming little power. The SX-A devices, for example, can run at 200 MHz while dissipating less than 1W. Ranging in size from 12,000 to 108,000 system gates, the FPGAs sell for as little as $3.90"... techweb.com