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Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Gleichmann-Sunrise | Subject: CMOS-N5 family
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 16 March 2001
Low-cost gate arrays compete with
low-end FPGAs
Dedicated NEC distributor Sunrise Electronics has announced a new family of gate arrays to directly compete with FPGAs and other programmable logic devices for low- to mid-count gate array designs.
Dedicated NEC distributor Sunrise Electronics has announced a new family of gate arrays to directly compete with FPGAs and other programmable logic devices for low- to mid-count gate array designs CMOS-N5 technology allows unit gate prices to be reduced to below FPGA values for unit volumes above 2,000 and gate counts below 124,000
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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These gate arrays are ideal for industrial applications where the volumes are not large enough to justify a full custom design.
Unit costs for the smallest die start from less than GBP1 and time to market has also been reduced with samples available in around two weeks and mass production in nine weeks.
NEC's CMOS-N5 family has a range of usable gates values from 2k to 74k and the family offers an unwired gate rate of up to 120Kbytes with the highest die step.
It also includes a broad choice of ninety configurable RAMs.
CMOS-N5 arrays have low internal gate power consumption of only 1.35uW/MHz/gate yet can drive outputs of 3, 6, 9 or 12mA.
Operating at a high frequency of 60MHz the CMOS-N5 family provides high-speed operation with a conventional 5V supply, although the process's designed-in flexibility allows use of a 3V supply without changing any process parameters.
These gate arrays use efficient, high-density mid-range processes and cost-efficient, optimised fabrication based on 0.5um gate array technologies.
A highly integrated two metal layer process has been introduced that reduces the silicon and non-reoccurring engineering costs to a minimum.
Members of the family are available in QFP, TQFP and LQFT packages with pin counts of 44 up to 304 pins.
Sunrise offers a full range of design in support for NEC's ASIC products.
CMOS-N5 is integrated into NEC's consistent OpenCAD design environment and full tool and library support is available enabling easy migration from other hard-wired or programmed designs.
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