Giving developers the capability to incorporate secure in-system programmability (ISP) for the first time in their products, Actel has released the ProASIC3 starter kit, and started sampling its 250K-gate A3P250 field-programmable gate array. The starter kit allows the exploration of the architectural features unique to the ProASIC3/E family, including secure ISP and live at power-up capability.
The A3P250 device is the latest addition to the ProASIC3/E family, and is an attractive programmable logic solution for a range of high-volume, value-based applications in the consumer, industrial, medical, communications and automotive markets. This single-chip 250K-gate FPGA contains 1024 bits (128 bits x eight pages) of on-chip user nonvolatile flash memory and six clock conditioning circuits, one with on-board PLL.
The A3P250 supports four I/O banks with up to 157 I/Os and advanced I/O standards including PCI, LVDS and LVPECL. Standby power consumption is only 3 mA. The device also provides secure ISP capability through on-chip 128-bit AES decryption and built-in flash key storage technology.
The starter kit is available in two versions: the 'Eval' kit includes an A3P250 FPGA soldered directly to an evaluation board, providing customers a low-cost solution to validate the performance of the device; the 'Proto' kit includes a socket-equipped evaluation board, allowing nine of the 10 devices in the ProASIC3/E family to be evaluated with the Proto kit. Both boards contain an alphanumeric LCD display and provide CAT5E connectors to demonstrate the high-speed LVDS functionality.
The starter kit contains a high-speed FlashPro3 programmer, which interfaces to a PC via a USB 2.0 or USB 1.1 interface, Actel's Libero Gold 6.2 integrated design environment software, USB cable, programming cable, power supply, tutorials and support documentation in addition to the starter kit board.
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