Actel (News - Alert) Corporation has acquired Pigeon Point Systems, a privately-held supplier of telecommunications computing architecture (TCA) management components.
 
With the help of this acquisition, Actel expects to offer a comprehensive solution for proprietary and standards-based system management implementations in the industrial, military, telecommunications, and medical markets.
 
Company officials said that the acquisition is not expected to have a material effect on Actel's financial condition or results of operations.
 
Pigeon Point Systems product portfolio consists of management components for modular platforms based on the AdvancedTCA, AdvancedMC (News - Alert) and MicroTCA architectures. Officials said that in addition to extending this portfolio with products based on the Actel Fusion mixed-signal FPGAs, Pigeon Point will continue to offer and enhance its existing solutions.
 
Earlier this year, both the companies announced a partnership to develop and market solutions based on the Actel Fusion mixed-signal FPGAs to speed the design of AdvancedTCA (News - Alert) blade and AdvancedMC carrier blade management controllers.
 
Officials said that the two companies’ combined portfolio of reference designs, development kits and expert design services offers designers the capability to address system and power management issues throughout the design process.
 
Claiming that Pigeon Point is the “de facto standard” in the TCA arena, John East, president and CEO at Actel, said that as TCA experiences rapid deployment across the power-sensitive telecommunications, military and industrial markets, the merger of their market and technology leadership with “Actel's innovative power” and system management solutions gives the company a “tremendous opportunity to capture a significant portion of the TCA system market.”
 
“Through mutual customer engagements, we've seen how the Actel Fusion FPGA offers TCA designers compelling benefits in implementing the critical system functions that affect TCA system and power management,” said Mark Overgaard, president at Pigeon Point.
 
He also said that Actel's mixed-signal Fusion FPGA, together with Pigeon Point's firmware and reference designs, will serve the complete range of customer applications – from simple system management to higher performance TCA applications.
 
Pigeon Point will be a wholly-owned subsidiary of Actel, and will continue to operate out of its Scotts Valley, Calif. headquarters. The companies did not disclose the terms of the acquisition.
 
Anshu Shrivastava is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anshu’s articles, please visit her columnist page.


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