Actel Corporation (Actel) designs, develops and markets flash, antifuse-based field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and mixed-signal FPGAs for a range of applications within the aerospace, automotive, avionics, communications, consumer, industrial, medical and military markets. In support of its FPGA devices, the Company also offers design and development software, intellectual property (IP) cores, programming hardware, debugging tool kits and demonstration boards, design services, field engineering and technical support. The Company sells its products globally through a worldwide, multi-tiered sales and distribution network. In July 2008, Actel acquired Pigeon Point Systems, a provider of telecommunications computer architecture (TCA) management components.