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News Release from: Actel Europe | Subject: APA300, APA600 and APA1000
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 29 August 2003
Flash FPGAs meet military specs
ProASIC Plus FPGAs are now available tested and verified to operate over the full military temperature range (-55 to +125C).
Representing the industry's first Flash-based FPGAs qualified for military applications, Actel's reprogrammable, nonvolatile ProASIC Plus FPGAs are now available tested and verified to operate over the full military temperature range (-55 to +125C) With densities ranging from 300,000 to 1-million system gates, the single-chip, military-qualified APA300, APA600 and APA1000 devices are offered in three packaging and screening options - military-temperature plastic (MTP), military-temperature hermetic (MTH), and hermetic packaging fully screened to MIL-STD 883 class B (883B)
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 5 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Designers of high-temperature, high-reliability systems are looking for a solution that meets their stringent requirements without the lengthy design time and high non-recurring engineering costs associated with ASICs", said Ken O'Neill, Director of Marketing, Military and Aerospace Products at Actel.
"The new Flash-based, military ProASIC Plus devices directly address this need and offer designers a 'best-of-both-worlds' scenario - ASIC-like features, such as low power consumption, single chip and live at power-up, combined with in-field upgradability.
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The ProASIC Plus family, Actel's second-generation of Flash-based FPGAs, consists of seven devices ranging in density from 75,000 to 1-million system gates.
The combination of a fine-grained, single-chip ASIC-like architecture and nonvolatile flash configuration memory makes Actel's ProASIC Plus offering a strong ASIC alternative.
The devices are live at power up, low power, highly secure and require no separate configuration memory, all characteristics shared by ASICs.
Key features of the ProASIC Plus family include multiple phase-locked loops (PLLs), support for up to 198Kbit of two-port embedded SRAM and 712 user-configurable I/Os, and improved in-system programmability (ISP).
Fully qualified APA300, APA600 and APA1000 ProASIC Plus FPGAs in MTP packaging are available now with prices beginning at $290 in 5000-unit quantities.
The APA300, APA600 and APA1000 devices in MTH packaging will be available in Q4 2003 with prices starting at $510.
Additionally, the 883B ProASIC Plus products will begin shipping in Q4 2003 with prices beginning at $860 for 5000 units.
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