in light of the # of TI dsps and Actel FPGAs used in MP3 players, i think it is fair to say their paths must cross
[especially since Actel bought TI's FPGA business]
Actel Milestones
1985
Actel incorporates in Sunnyvale, California
1988
Actel pioneers first commercial antifuse FPGA with ACT 1 family
1991
ACT 2 Family Enters FPGA Market
The 1280 takes over programmable device density leadership
1993
ACT 3 family debuts as programmable device leader in performance
1994
Actel announces 1200XL family
1995
Actel introduces the 3200DX family of high-capacity FPGAs
Actel introduces Designer Series FPGA toolset
Actel acquires Texas Instruments' FPGA business
1996
Actel announces availability of the first Rad-Hard, non-volatile, FPGA, 8,000-gate RH1280
Actel ships first HDL-PCI-compliant FPGA design kits
1997
Actel introduces the MX family of gate array replacement FPGAs
Actel introduces Designer Lite, first no-cost FPGA development software downloadable over the Internet
1998
Actel introduces the SX family of high-performance FPGAs
Actel acquires an electronics design center in Mt. Arlington, NJ
Actel acquires exclusive marketing/sales rights to Flash-based ProASIC devices
1999
Actel introduces the Actel DeskTOP, first free integrated suite of tools for programmable logic design
Actel MX ships two million units in its first 18 months
Actel introduces, ProASIC, the world's only Flash-based family of reprogrammable, non-volatile, single-chip gate arrays
Actel introduces SX-A antifuse family-world's fastest FPGAs
2000
Actel MX ships million units in Q1
Actel MX reaches milestone of one million units shipped to MP3 applications
Actel introduces comprehensive embedded FPGA IP solution
Actel announces Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR) technology for use in Aerospace applications requiring very high radiation tolerance
Actel introduces the eX family of low power, CPLD equivalent devices, targeting the e-Appliance market
Actel purchased Prosys Technology, innovators of dense embeddable SRAM FPGA cores.
Actel purchased GateField Corporation, a flash pioneer with both standalone and embedded FPGA technologies.
