Actel takes power to new lows

Almost every programmable logic company has claimed one of the following in the past few years: lowest power programmable leader, optimized for low power, lowest dynamic power, optimized for battery life, and up to 60% less current.

Low power is not about percentage improvement over previous generations of high-power devices; it should not be dependent on incremental benefits gained by powering off the device, since at some point you have to switch the device on. Designers using programmable logic have been denied true low-power devices for too long.

Actel is REDEFINING POWER in Programmable Logic!

Actel's approach to power is about tens, hundreds, and thousands of times lower power than any other device. For example:

• IGLOO devices provide 20 times longer battery life than the nearest "low-power" SRAM competitor.
• IGLOO devices have 15 times lower power than the industry's leading low-power CPLD.
• IGLOO devices offer at least 200 times lower power than the SRAM FPGA vendor who claims "optimized for low power."

Take a Basic Flash-Based FPGA and Add Analog

Take the low-power FPGA core and add additional components to create the Fusion Programmable System Chip (PSC), with nonvolatile memory for storage, FlashROM for security keys and revision control, and built-in clock sources, including RCOSC, XTAL support, and PLLs. Then add analog support with high-voltage analog I/Os at -12V to +16V input tolerance and up to 25 mA high drive outputs. A single Fusion PSC now enables system power management, with the ability to integrate functions such as power management, thermal management, clock generation and distribution, SRAM FPGA management, and diagnostics and prognostics.

Add the Leading Industry-Standard Low-Power Processor

Actel's partnership with ARM on the co-development of the Cortex-M1 processor means that the first processor optimized for FPGAs is fully optimized for all of Actel's third-generation nonvolatile flash-based FPGAs: IGLOO, ProASIC3, and Fusion families.

To learn more about Redefining Power, visit: actel.com/products/solutions/power