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News Release from: Actel Europe | Subject: SX-A FPGAs
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 01 August 2003
FPGAs improve graphical control
Marine cartography specialist C-Map has adopted Actel's SX-A FPGAs for use in its marine navigation system offerings.
Marine cartography specialist C-Map has adopted Actel's SX-A FPGAs for use in its marine navigation system offerings The A54SX32A solution will be used as a graphics controller and display driver, allowing different resolutions, black/white or colour displays and a variety of other features, such as animated forecasting against vessel positioning
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 30 Jan 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The SX-A FPGA was chosen for its secure and reliable operation in the rugged and harsh environments of alternate cold and heat and intense humidity in which the marine navigation equipment operates.
Duilio Lagomarsini, Technical Manager at C-Map, said: "Our immediate need was to find a programmable device that would meet the high-reliability standards required in the unforgiving marine environment.
Actel's A54SX32A met this need perfectly, while offering the additional advantages of high performance, low power consumption and design security.
Furthermore, it was possible to integrate all the digital functions into one FPGA, obtaining an 80% reduction in the number of components used, providing significant space and cost savings".
"Consistently, developers of harsh-environment applications leverage the benefits of Actel's nonvolatile, single-chip SX-A FPGAs due to the performance, reliability and security of the architecture", commented Jon Ewald, Director of Product Marketing, Antifuse Products at Actel.
"We are thrilled to have been chosen by C-Map, the leading global developer of electronic cartography, for its innovative and award-winning marine navigation systems".
With devices up to 108,000 system gates and speeds up to 250MHz system performance, the SX-A family offers a fine-grained antifuse architecture similar to a masked gate array, providing a high-performance, low-cost solution for a wide range of applications.
In addition, the SX-A family offers I/O capabilities that provide full support for hot swapping and is also 66MHz PCI compliant.
Additionally, the A54SX32A device selected by C-Map is extremely secure, preventing copying or reverse engineering of the design.
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