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Programmable Logic Devices
News Release from: Actel Europe | Subject: ProASIC Plus
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 18 August 2004
Flash-based FPGAs enable audio product
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Aviom has exclusively used Flash-based ProASIC Plus FPGA devices throughout its portfolio of audio network products, including the award-winning A-16 and A-16R personal mixers.
Aviom has exclusively used Flash-based ProASIC Plus FPGA devices throughout its portfolio of audio network products, including the award-winning A-16 and A-16R personal mixers Actel's ProASIC Plus devices are also used within Aviom's Distributed Audio Network, based on Aviom's proprietary A-Net data transmission protocol, which allows high-speed, real-time transmission of multichannel audio over a single Cat5 wire in both fixed and mobile audio scenarios
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 3 Feb 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Chosen for superior flexibility and security, Actel's live at power-up, nonvolatile ProASIC Plus devices serve as the main engine throughout Aviom's audio network and perform a wide variety of critical processing and control functions.
Aviom has integrated Actel's APA150 device in several of its products, including its line of personal mixers, control surfaces, transmitters, and input and output modules.
Within these systems, the APA150 device performs key functions such as input control and LED scan output, audio I/O control and media access control (MAC).
Additionally, Actel's device serves as the interface to the analogue-to-digital (ADC) and digital-to-analogue (DAC) convertors within Aviom's products.
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