Flash-based FPGAs shrink to new package options

Actel has released 10 new package options for its Flash-based ProASIC Plus field-programmable gate array family.

Actel has released 10 new package options for its Flash-based ProASIC Plus field-programmable gate array (FPGA) family.

With the industry's widest package selection, up to 50% larger than competitive offerings, Actel now offers packaging options that include fine-line ball-grid array (FG) and thin-quad (TQ) packages, among others.

With today's announcement, Actel is the only FPGA supplier to offer the small-footprint FG144 package, which is 34% smaller than any competing offering.

Actel also supports the highest I/O count for the standard TQ144 package, 32% more than the competition, to deliver the industry's best cost per I/O.

This robust selection, combined with the cost-savings offered by the single-chip, live at power up ProASIC Plus family enables Actel to deliver unparalleled design flexibility and the industry's lowest total system cost.

Rounding out the industry's widest selection of standard packaging options, Actel now offers six FG packages ranging from FG144 to FG1152, two TQ packages, TQ100 and TQ144, and the PQ208 and BG456 packages.

This extended package offering, combined with the low-power and security benefits of Actel's reprogrammable ProASIC Plus FPGAs, enables designers to leverage Actel devices for a broad range of applications.

Specifically, the FG144 and TQ100 packages are widely used in cost-sensitive, small-form-factor consumer electronics and portable applications.

Enabling easy design migration for Actel's customers, ProASIC Plus devices are pin-to-pin and footprint compatible between family members supporting the same packages and in some cases different packages.

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).

Actel's ProASIC Plus devices are fully qualified, shipping in volume/production quantities today and are available with over 10 different part package combinations.

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