Military-rated FPGAs enter full production

QuickLogic Europe can now supply production volumes of the military-temperature versions of its popular Eclipse II FPGA product.

QuickLogic Europe can now supply production volumes of the military-temperature versions of its popular Eclipse II FPGA product.

Capable of operating over a temperature range of -55 to +125C, the new plastic-packaged FPGAs provide customisable logic solutions for critical military and aerospace applications including aircraft navigation and flight controls, data recorders, weapons systems and military communications equipment.

An increasing number of these applications are becoming portable or battery-operated, fuelling a requirement for semiconductor suppliers to concurrently increase functionality with reduced power consumption.

Traditionally, logic solutions for low power military applications have been implemented in ASICs, due largely to the fact that FPGAs could not minimise their static and dynamic power consumption to an acceptable level.

ASICs, however, require lengthy and complex development and debug cycles and have procurement models with large minimum order quantities.

The industry-leading power economy of Eclipse II "microwatt" FPGAs addresses the needs of these power-critical military application segments such as portable personal communications, global positioning and smart munitions.

Additionally, the adoption of a device from the Eclipse II family drastically reduces design cycle time - to a matter of weeks - at a fraction of the total cost of ownership of ASICs.

"QuickLogic has a long track record of delivering programmable logic solutions to a broad spectrum of applications within the military and aerospace markets".

"The security, nonvolatility and instant-on nature of our patented ViaLink technology make our devices an excellent fit for systems that demand high reliability", said Owen Bateman, Sales Director of QuickLogic Europe.

Eclipse II products are based on a patented metal-to-metal programmable interconnect technology, enabling the low power, nonvolatility and security demanded by rugged military applications.

The quiescent current is as low as 70uA at 125C, two orders of magnitude lower than competitors' FPGAs under comparable conditions.

Densities range from 47,000 to 320,000 system gates.

Devices incorporate embedded dual-port SRAM and support a wide range of I/O standards to enable several board-level components to be integrated into a single chip.

Packaging choice includes BGA, Micro BGA, TQFP and PQFP.

QuickLogic offers a range of intellectual property targeted specifically for Eclipse-II FPGAs including industry-standard memory and I/O bus interfaces, DSP functions, CPU cores and commonly used peripherals.

The Eclipse-II FPGA family is supported by the QuickWorks version 9.7 development tool suite and is available for download from the company's website.

Eclipse-II mil-temp FPGA devices start at $15.00 in 5000-piece quantities.

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