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Actel Achieves Rigorous SAE/AS9100 Aerospace Certification

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August 21, 2008

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First Programmable Logic Vendor to Obtain Certification

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Continuing to
provide the highest quality and reliability levels available to the
aerospace and avionics markets, Actel Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTL) today
announced it has become the first field-programmable gate array (FPGA)
vendor to achieve SAE/AS9100 certification. Increasingly required by
aerospace suppliers world-wide, Actel received the stringent AS9100
certification for its Quality Management System (QMS), which certifies that
the company’s processes related to design and manufacture of its low-power,
programmable logic solutions have met or exceeded the required standard.

“Actel’s SAE/AS9100 certification eases the part acquisition process
for our aerospace and avionics customers around the world,” said Ken
O’Neill director of military products, for Actel. “Further, the achievement
of this certification allows our customers to purchase Actel products with
the confidence that they are getting the highest quality and reliability
while ensuring their cost of ownership goals are met or exceeded.”

Today, the aircraft industry is challenged with mandates to use
commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products to obtain cost benefits, yet
tasked with meeting extremely high reliability goals. The AS9100
certification has the benefits of reducing costs and improving reliability
by consolidating and standardizing the quality requirements and quality
systems employed by suppliers to the aerospace and avionics industry.

The AS9100 standard was developed by Working Group 11 of ISO TC20 and
was supported by the International Aerospace Quality Group in order to
satisfy internal, government, and regulatory requirements.

Actel FPGA Devices Offer Flight-proven Reliability

Aerospace and avionics applications require high levels of reliability
while typically operating in a harsh environment. Unlike SRAM-based
devices, which experience neutron-induced firm errors, Actel FPGAs offer
immunity to neutron-induced configuration upsets, making them better suited
to aerospace operational altitudes. Actel’s devices are also live at power
up, allowing system-critical applications to recover immediately from power
out or brownout conditions that can occur from lightning strikes, system or
power supply glitches, neutron-induced system resets, and RF interference.

With more than 20 years of flight-proven reliability, Actel offers
low-power flash- and antifuse-based FPGAs for use in aerospace and avionics
applications. Actel’s AS9100 certification can be viewed at
http://www.actel.com/documents/AS9100-2004_Certificate.pdf. More
information about Actel’s aerospace and avionics offerings can be found at
http://www.actel.com/products/solutions/milaero/default.aspx.

About Actel

Actel is the leader in low-power and mixed-signal FPGAs and offers the
most comprehensive portfolio of system and power management solutions.
Power Matters. Learn more at http://www.actel.com.

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