Single-Chip System Manager
Today's current system management implementations can require hundreds of discrete components. These solutions are often a collection of fixed function chips and discrete components that must work in concert to create a cohesive solution. Actel's flexible, single-chip, mixed-signal Fusion Programmable System Chip (PSC) can perform a host of system management tasks while replacing hundreds of chips.
Just one Fusion device can replace a CPLD, a realtime clock, a power sequencer, a temperature monitor, a fan controller, nonvolatile memory, clock generators and configuration memory.
System Management Functions
| • Power Initialization |
• Diagnostics and Prognostics |
| • Power Sequencing | • Errors and Alarms |
| • Reset Management | • Current Monitoring |
| • Voltage Monitoring | • SRAM FPGA Management |
| • System Clocking |
• Thermal Management |
| • Data Logging |
• MCU Boot Loader |
| • Remote Communications | • ID and Authentication |
While standards such as the Micro Telecom Computing Architecture (MicroTCA), AdvancedTCA and Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) are now being adopted, many of today's implementations are proprietary, having evolved over time within an organization.
Driven by the need to increase system up-time and reliability, many designers are adding system diagnostics and prognostics, not only to help debug systems that have failed but also to identify potential failures before they arise.
Fusion integrates all the System Management Functions into a single-chip solution reducing board cost and complexity and improving reliability.
Find out how Actel not only provides a ready-to-use device for System Management, but also a development platform, MicroTCA reference designs and easy to use software to deliver the complete standard or custom System Management solution. » Read More
