Product category:
Programmable Logic Devices
News Release from: Actel Europe | Subject: ProASIC3
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 30 August 2007
FPGAs for safety-critical automotive
applications
The ProASIC3 FPGA provides the small footprint, low power and reliability needed by Magna Electronics to create innovative driver assistance systems.
Magna Electronics is designing automotive vision systems using ProASIC3 FPGAs from Actel The low-power single-chip ProASIC3 FPGAs satisfy the needs of applications with extreme space constraints and limited ventilation
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Feb 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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"As we deliver the driver assistance technologies that consumers are demanding, we need reliable components with sophisticated functionality in a very small form factor", says Francois Truc, Vice President and General Manager for Magna Electronics.
"The small size and proximity of these systems also require devices with extremely low power and endurance".
"The ProASIC3 FPGA provides the small footprint, low power and reliability we need to create our innovative driver assistance systems".
"Space-constrained systems have thermal reliability design challenges that can be overcome by using fewer components with very low power dissipation", comments Martin Mason, Senior Director, Silicon Product Marketing for Actel.
"Because quality and reliability are paramount, our ProASIC3 FPGAs, with their firm-error immunity, low power and small form factor, remove the barriers to FPGA adoption in safety-critical automotive applications".
ProASIC3 devices are the only FPGAs to use true Flash memory for logic configuration, enabling them to provide critical firm-error immunity a technical impossibility for SRAM-based FPGAs and hybrid Flash with SRAM-based CPLDs.
ProASIC3 FPGAs are ideal for driver assistance and safety systems as well as under-the-bonnet powertrain solutions, which have stringent reliability and temperature requirements, in addition to telematics applications with less demanding specifications.
Actel has recently received AEC-Q100, Grade 1 qualification, which confirms that low-power ProASIC3 devices can operate in extended junction temperature ranges (-40 to +135C) and deliver reliability and performance.
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