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News Release from: Actel Europe | Subject: System Management Development Kit
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 18 October 2006
Mixed-signal FPGAs take on system
management
The Actel Fusion Programmable System Chip (PSC) can now perform system management functions within electronic systems, a $2.5 billion global market opportunity.
The Actel Fusion Programmable System Chip (PSC) can now perform system management functions within electronic systems, a $2.5 billion global market opportunity These tasks include power and thermal management, data logging and system diagnostics within a variety of markets, including telecommunications, industrial, automotive, aerospace, military and medical
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 5 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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While many designs can require hundreds of components to handle system management, the Actel Fusion PSC, the industry's only mixed-signal field-programmable gate array (FPGA), can integrate these system management functions and provide programmable flexibility all in a single chip.
As a result, Fusion PSCs can offer cost and space savings of 50% or greater relative to current implementations.
"We believe there will be a dramatic acceleration in the adoption of highly flexible and integrated solutions in lieu of utilising hundreds of discrete components for system management", said Dennis Kish, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Actel.
"Our Fusion mixed-signal FPGAs enable us to address the global market at a time when designers are searching for system management solutions that reduce system cost while also improving reliability".
Increased costs and risks are driving the adoption of standards, such as the Micro Telecom Computing Architecture (MicroTCA).
To meet this growing trend, Actel has also announced several MicroTCA reference designs.
Actel believes these free, tested reference designs will drive MicroTCA adoption and provide templates for the customisation of system management functions.
To support system management applications like MicroTCA, Actel also offers its portfolio of intellectual property (IP) cores for processing, analogue and memory interface and communications.
To speed development time, Actel offers the System Management Development Kit.
Equipped with a Fusion PSC, this complete prototyping and development kit includes a set of key demonstrations, including power-up detection, power sequencing, system diagnostics and remote communications.
The Fusion PSC System Management and MicroTCA reference design information is available for free from the Actel website and through Actel's worldwide sales team.
Available today, the System Management Development Kit costs US $895.
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