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News Release from: Actel Europe | Subject: RTAX-S family
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 09 July 2004
Radiation-tolerant FPGAs sampling now
Actel Corp has released engineering samples of all three devices in its high-density RTAX-S family of radiation-tolerant field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
Actel Corp has released engineering samples of all three devices in its high-density RTAX-S family of radiation-tolerant field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) The RTAX250S, RTAX1000S and RTAX2000S devices offer high-performance single-chip solutions to the space-flight market, primarily for use in satellite bus and payload applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 6 Jul 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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FPGAs are fully qualified for space duties
Actel Corp is shipping fully qualified RTAX-S field-programmable gate arrays to customers developing high-reliability space-flight systems.
Radiation-tolerant FPGA is alternative to ASIC
The 250,000-gate RTAX250S field-programmable gate array extends the RTAX-S family to three devices, ranging in density from 250,000 to 2-million equivalent system gates.
Additionally, Actel's new Libero 6.0 integrated development environment (IDE), featuring design automation tools from Actel and leading EDA vendors, offers full support for all three devices in the RTAX-S family.
The devices in the RTAX-S family offer increased performance through architectural enhancements that improve arithmetic functions.
Additionally, the family incorporates single-event upset (SEU) hardened flip-flops, providing a cost-sensitive design solution by eliminating the need to implement triple-module redundancy (TMR).
The embedded SRAM used on the RTAX-S devices is also optimised for use in harsh space environments thanks to error detection and correction (EDAC) IP and an integrated SRAM scrubber.
Taking the guesswork out of FPGA design, Actel offers a comprehensive suite of design tools optimised for the RTAX-S devices.
The Libero 6.0 IDE includes best-in-class tools from Mentor Graphics, Magma Design Automation, SynaptiCAD and Synplicity, integrated into a single FPGA development package with custom-developed tools from Actel.
The IDE offers a powerful design manager that keeps track of design files and seamlessly manages the interoperability issues typically associated with using tools from multiple vendors.
Actel also offers complete prototyping support for the RTAX-S devices.
The RTAX2000S offers two million equivalent system gates (or 250,000 ASIC gates) and 288Kbyte of core RAM.
The RTAX1000S features one million equivalent system gates (or 125,000 ASIC gates) and 162Kbyte of core RAM.
The third device in the family, the RTAX250S offers 250,000 equivalent system gates (or 30,000 ASIC gates) and 54Kbyte of core RAM.
Engineering samples of the RTAX250S, RTAX1000S and RTAX2000S are available now.
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