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Programmable Logic Devices
News Release from: Actel Europe | Subject: Igloo family
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 11 October 2006
FPGAs put the freeze on power
consumption
UMC's leading-edge 0.13um low-power and e-Flash processes combined with Actel's Igloo power mode options and Flash-Freeze technology enable power consumption as low as 5uW.
Actel has collaborated with UMC to produce the Igloo family, billed as the industry's lowest power field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) UMC's leading-edge 0.13um low-power and e-Flash processes combined with Actel's Igloo power mode options and Flash-Freeze technology enable power consumption as low as 5uW, a new standard for the industry
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Jan 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Flash-based FPGAs put freeze on power consumption
Flash-based FPGA family consumes 4x less static power than its nearest competitor and delivers more than 5x the battery life of the current leading PLDs in portable applications.
Dr Esmat Hamdy, Senior Vice President of technology and operations and Actel company founder commented: "In August, we introduced Igloo, a game-changing device for the portable marketplace with 4x less static power consumption than its nearest competitor and battery life conservation 5x longer than the current leading PLDs in portable applications".
"As we planned the product rollout, it was paramount that we selected a foundry partner with a proven low-power flash process technology that complemented the inherent low-power benefits of our reprogrammable ProASIC3 FPGA architecture".
"As a technology leader in the industry, UMC was the right fit for our unique product requirements".
Dr Fu Tai Liou, President of the America Business Group at UMC, noted: "Actel is a world leader in providing single-chip FPGA solutions".
"Their decision to work with UMC as their primary foundry for the Igloo family demonstrates the strong reputation of UMC's process technology for the development of low-power SoCs for portable applications".
The Actel Igloo family features up to three million system gates and builds on the characteristics of Actel's successful ProASIC3 Flash FPGAs, such as live-at-power-up and secure AES-based in-system programmability.
The only low-power FPGA solution to support 1.2V, the Actel Igloo family has several power modes to optimise power consumption the Flash-Freeze mode, a low-power active mode and a sleep mode.
The Actel Igloo family offers up to 616 user I/Os, six phase-locked loops (PLLs), 504Kbit of RAM and 350MHz performance in both commercial and industrial grades.
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