Pigeon Point Systems today announced that it has reestablished itself as an independent company, following the recent acquisition of Actel® Corporation by Microsemi® Corporation (NASDAQ: MSCC). Based in Oceanside, California, Pigeon Point Systems will continue their successful cooperation with the Microsemi SOC Products Group (formerly known as Actel) on the use of the industry-recognized SmartFusion intelligent mixed signal FPGAs in xTCA™ ha...

Pigeon Point Systems (PPS), an Actel company, today announced new AdvancedTCA® (ATCA) IPM Controller (IPMC) and ATCA/AdvancedMC(TM) (AMC) Carrier IPMC Board Management Reference (BMR) Starter Kits using Actel's new SmartFusion(TM) intelligent mixed signal FPGA. SmartFusion is the only device that integrates an FPGA, hard ARM® Cortex(TM)-M3-based microcontroller subsystem (MSS) and programmable analogue, offering full customisation, IP protectio...

Pigeon Point Systems (PPS), an Actel company, today announced a new Module Management Controller (MMC) Board Management Reference (BMR) Starter Kit based on Actel's SmartFusion intelligent mixed signal FPGAs. SmartFusion is the only device that integrates an FPGA, hard ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontroller subsystem (MSS) and programmable analogue. The new kit addresses the MMCs on AdvancedMC(TM) (AMC) modules, which are used in both AdvancedTCA® ...

Pigeon Point Systems, an Actel company, has announced continued compliance and interoperability initiatives for its xTCA board and module management controller releases. Formal testing for the recently released Pigeon Point management solutions based on the Actel Fusion® mixed-signal FPGA and the Renesas H8S microcontroller was demonstrated live at the 2009 ATCA Summit xTCA SlotFest using Polaris Networks' ATCA Testers. The SlotFest also featu...