Actel has acquired Pigeon Point Systems, a privately-held supplier of telecommunications computing architecture (TCA) management components. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The company will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Actel and will continue to operate out of its Scotts Valley, Calif. headquarters. Defined by the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG), the industry-standard TCA specifications cover the AdvancedTCA, Advanced Mezzanine Card (AdvancedMC) and the MicroTCA frameworks.

According to industry estimates from market research firm VDC, the opportunity for the overall standards-based TCA system market is expected to be roughly $1.8 billion by 2009. Earlier this year, Actel and Pigeon Point announced a partnership to develop and market solutions based on the Actel Fusion mixed-signal FPGAs to speed the design of AdvancedTCA blade and AdvancedMC carrier blade management controllers. The two companies' combined portfolio of reference designs, development kits, development environments and expert design services gives designers the capability to address system and power management issues throughout the design process.