Actel Announces Winners of First 'Actel Cup' Electronics Design Contest in China

Designs Demonstrate Advantages of Actel's Mixed-signal FPGAs and Set Stage for
Future Fusion-based Innovation in China

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Actel Corporation
(Nasdaq: ACTL) today announced that a mixed-signal Actel Fusion-based wireless
auto-monitoring temperature control design from Xi'an Institute of Posts and
Telecommunications won the top prize in the first ever Actel Cup design
contest in China. The winning design was chosen by a judging committee from
among the 390 submitted designs ranging from automotive and medical to power
management solution designs. Demonstrations of the winning designs were
available at an awards ceremony in Guangzhou in June.
Anthony Hsiah, Actel's country manager in China, said, "The creativity of
the Actel Cup design contest submissions and the students' ability to fully
utilize the innovative features of our mixed-signal FPGAs was impressive. It
was clear that, through hands-on experience, we can assist students to become
valuable contributors to China's rapidly growing electronics industry and
further establish the mixed-signal Actel Fusion FPGA as a suitable option for
an incredibly broad range of applications."
In second place, the design from Ocean University of China utilized the
mixed-signal Fusion FPGA to enable the remote detection of smoke, gas density,
and environmental temperatures within the home. Awarded to the team from
South China Normal University, the third place design was a hand language
recognition system for mute and deaf persons that could also be utilized for
gaming applications. Other participating universities included Huazhong
University of Science & Technology and Nanjing University of Science &
Technology.
Contest judge and president and general manager of Guangzhou ZLGMCU
Development Co., Ltd., George Zhou Li Gong said, "In China, designers are
beginning to recognize the critical importance of FPGAs as key enabling
technologies for the future. The Actel Cup design contest offered evidence of
the innovation possible when utilizing mixed-signal FPGAs."
About Fusion
The award-winning, mixed-signal Actel Fusion FPGAs incorporate analog
functions, embedded flash and FPGA fabric in a single chip. For embedded
applications, the combination of Fusion and industry-standard cores, such as
an 8051 microcontroller or the ARM Cortex-M1 processor, enables intelligent
system and power management, representing a flexible, low-cost alternative for
many telecommunications and industrial control applications.
About Actel
Attacking power consumption from both the chip and the system levels,
Actel Corporation's innovative FPGAs and programmable system chip solutions
enable power-efficient design. The company is traded on the NASDAQ National
Market under the symbol ACTL and is headquartered at 2061 Stierlin Court,
Mountain View, Calif., 94043-4655. For more information about Actel, visit
http://www.actel.com.
The Actel name, logo and Actel Fusion are trademarks of Actel Corporation.
All other trademarks and service marks are the property of their respective
owners.
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Stephanie Mrus of Actel Corporation, +1-650-318-4614,
stephanie.mrus@actel.com; or Diane Orr of Orr & Co, +1-408-358-1617,
diane@orr-co.com, for Actel Corporation