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News Release from: Actel Europe | Subject: ProASIC Plus B Flow
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 08 December 2005
Flash-based FPGAs pass full set of
military tests
ProASIC Plus FPGAs have passed extensive testing at extreme conditions to achieve compliance with MIL-STD-883 Class B and qualify for use in high-reliability defence applications.
Helping its customers address the rigorous reliability requirements of military applications, Actel has released the industry's first fully qualified MIL-STD-883B Flash-based field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) Actel's reprogrammable, nonvolatile ProASIC Plus FPGAs passed extensive testing at extreme conditions to achieve compliance with MIL-STD-883 Class B and qualify for use in high-reliability defence applications, such as military avionics and weapons systems
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 5 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Especially in military avionics applications, the reliability of each individual component is critical", said Ravi Pragasam, Senior Manager, Military and Aerospace Product Marketing at Actel.
"While competitive products only offer military-temperature variations and have not gone through extensive MIL-STD-883B qualification and testing, Actel's ProASIC Plus B Flow family offers customers complete assurance that each device has been fully tested to full military specifications".
"Further, the flexible and reconfigurable platform enables the development of a range of designs without schedule delays or excessive engineering costs".
The ProASIC Plus B Flow family, based on Actel's second-generation Flash-based FPGAs, consists of three devices ranging in density from 300,000 to 1 million system gates.
Offering a compelling alternative to custom ASICs and SRAM-based FPGAs, Actel's ProASIC Plus FPGAs combine a fine-grained, single-chip ASIC-like architecture and nonvolatile Flash configuration memory.
The devices are live at power-up, low power, highly secure and require no separate configuration memory.
Unlike ASICs, the devices require no NRE charges and offer fast prototyping and release to production.
Other 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, with improved in-system programmability (ISP).
The 883B ProASIC Plus products are shipping now.
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