Directly addressing design requirements for programmable solutions that meet ever-tightening power and cost budgets, Actel has announced the addition of two new members to its award-winning IGLOO and successful ProASIC3 field-programmable gate array (FPGA) families. Comparable in density to 128 macrocell complex programmable logic device (CPLD) offerings, the new 15 000-gate devices offer power consumption as low as 5 μW.
The new IGLOO AGL015 and ProASIC3 A3P015 FPGAs provide a lower cost, lower power alternative to low-density FPGAs and CPLDs in consumer, medical, communications and industrial applications, such as portable media players, smart phones, memory card interfaces, system controllers, portable medical devices and wireless sensors.
Consuming 50% less dynamic power than Actel's 30 000-gate AGL030 device, the AGL015 supports both 1,2 and 1,5 Volt operation and offers up to 250 MHz system performance, 49 available I/Os and 1 Kb of non-volatile Flash ROM. The 1,5 Volt A3P015 offers up to 350 MHz system performance, 49 I/Os and 1 Kb of non-volatile Flash ROM.
To allow for further system cost, power and area reductions, the new FPGAs offer the ability to bridge between two different I/O voltages levels and 1 Kb of on-chip memory, potentially eliminating the need for discrete devices. Used in the ProASIC3 and IGLOO architectures, a unique versatile core cell is automatically used as combinatorial or sequential logic by the Libero Integrated Design Environment, enabling more efficient routing, flexibility and device utilisation when compared with fixed-architecture CPLD solutions.
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