SCOTTSDALE, Az., March 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Highlighting key issues facing designers of portable consumer products, Fares Mubarak, senior vice president for Actel Corporation, will participate in a consumer panel at Semico Summit, being held March 16 - 18 in Scottsdale, Arizona. Mubarak will discuss how today's converged consumer devices are forcing designers to examine power down to the last microwatt, significantly impacting power budgets and design requirements. With 99 cent, 5 microwatt programmable logic devices now available, Mubarak details the opportunities for their use and widespread adoption in the power-conscious, portable consumer market.

    What:          Consumer Panel
    When:          Monday, March 17, 2008; 10:15 - 11:45 a.m.
    Where:         Semico Summit; Camelback Inn
                   Scottsdale, Arizona
    Panel
    Participants:  Dr. Levy Gerzberg, Co-Founder, President and CEO, Zoran
                   John Watson, Vice President and Founder, ElementCXI
                   Fares Mubarak, Senior Vice President, Actel
                   Bart Ladd, General Manager, NEC Electronics America

About Semico Summit

The Semico Summit is an annual executive that is widely revered as the semiconductor event of the year. The Summit provides ample opportunities for interaction with top-level leaders in a casual setting, where the industry's best and brightest gather. Hot button issues are pressed with featured presentations delivered by internationally recognized leaders and followed by lively Q&A sessions.

About Actel

Attacking power consumption from both the chip and the system levels, Actel Corporation's innovative FPGAs and programmable system chip solutions enable power-efficient design. The company is traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol ACTL and is headquartered at 2061 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, Calif., 94043-4655. For more information about Actel, visit http://www.actel.com.

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