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News Release from: QuickLogic | Subject: QL8150
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 26 January 2006
FPGA adds miniature packaging option
The ultra-low-power QL8150 FPGA will soon be available in an 8 x 8mm ball grid array package specified for the full industrial temperature range.
QuickLogic Europe is making its ultra-low-power QL8150 FPGA available in an 8 x 8mm ball grid array (BGA) package This small form factor packaging supports the development of portable applications such as smart phones, personal media players, and industrial handheld products
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The thin fine-pitch (0.5mm) BGA package has 196 balls in an 8 x 8mm footprint, and is ideal for very small and space-constrained embedded system applications.
Thanks to the tight intercomponent spacing and absence of active cooling mechanisms that many portable product developers favour - some users require semiconductor components to support the industrial temperature range.
To support such rugged operating conditions, the 8 x 8mm BGA variant of the QL8150 FPGA operates over the full industrial temperature range of -40 to +100C.
The new package is also lead free, as this is in alignment with both the industry's move to remove lead from products, and QuickLogic's corporate environmental, health, and safety policies.
"Offering FPGAs from our popular Eclipse II family in this small form factor packaging is another demonstration of our commitment to the handheld, portable market", says Owen Bateman of QuickLogic Europe.
"Since introducing the industry's lowest power FPGAs, we've provided complete support on all levels including packaging, intellectual property, support for software drivers, reference designs, and development boards".
"IP such as IDE, PCI and SDIO interfaces, is fully supported with drivers for the WinCE and Linux operating systems".
"We also offer development tools for the Intel PXA27x development platform".
"This support ensures that QuickLogic low-power FPGAs are easy to develop, and decrease customers' time to market".
QuickLogic Eclipse II products in 8 x 8mm packaging are available immediately.
Pricing for the QL8150-6PUN196C will be less than US $5 in high volume quantities, by the end of 2006.
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