Smaller process geometries drive more multivolt devices and are more susceptible to voltage and temperature fluctuations. While system management designs can run into hundreds of discrete components, ...
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Exar's XR20M1172 (M1172) and XR20V2172 (V2172) are high performance two-channel universal asynchronous receiver and transmitter (UART) ICs with 64 byte TX and RX FIFOs and a selectable I²C/SPI slave interface. ...
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At the heart of an ever-increasing number of embedded applications is a processor, so Actel supports embedded systems, designers with a comprehensive portfolio of industry standard processor solutions. ...
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Actel has announced the availability of its implementation of the ARM Cortex-M1 processor, a small, high-performance, 32-bit soft core co-developed by the two companies for optimal use in FPGAs. Removing ...
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austriamicrosystems new 16-channel constant-current LED driver has advanced error diagnostics for open and shorted LEDs. The AS1110 follows the successful AS1109, but doubles the output channels. It uses ...
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Telecommunications computing architecture (TCA) standards are defined by the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG). AdvancedTCA (ATCA) is a 2002 PICMG standard that defines an architecture ...
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The latest version of Actel′s Libero integrated design environment (IDE) offers full support for the company’s newest Flash-based field-programmable gate array (FPGA) solutions: the low-power Igloo family. ...
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Actel’s new IGLOO family of reprogrammable, full-featured Flash FPGAs is designed to meet the demanding power and area requirements of today’s portable electronics. Based on the company’s nonvolatile ...
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Addressing the tight power budgets of the portable market, Actel has introduced the IGLOO family, claimed to be the industry’s lowest power field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). With 5 μW static power, ...
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Power sequencing and management is a targeted application space for Actel's Fusion programmable system chip (PSC) - the world's first mixed-signal FPGA. As the ultimate PSC, Fusion integrates configurable ...
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Actel has introduced SoftConsole, a free software development environment for Actel's CoreMP7, a soft 32-bit ARM7 microprocessor core for FPGAs. Based on the widely-used, open-source Eclipse integrated ...
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Together with Australia, China and Argentina, South Africa is on the shortlist to host the world's largest radio telescope, the square kilometre array, or (SKA). The current site selection date is set ...
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