Hot Product: Flash-Based FPGA Family

Sept. 15, 2003

Members of the ProASIC Plus family of flash-based FPGAs are the first FPGAs to meet the full Mil-Std-883B screening for use in military applications. They were tested and verified to operate over the full military temperature range of −55°C to 125°C. Three packaging and screening options are available: military-temperature plastic, military-temperature hermetic, and hermetic packaging fully screened to Mil-Std-883B. Developed by Actel Corp., the APA300, 600, and 1000 offer densities from 300,000 to 1 million system gates; memory capacities from 72 to 198 kbits of dual-port SRAM; and from 158 to 712 user I/O pads. In lots of 5000 units, the prices for the mil-temp plastic version start at $290, while the hermetic package version starts at $510 and the full 883B screened devices start at $860 each.

Actel Corp.www.actel.com

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Dave Bursky

Technologist

Dave Bursky, the founder of New Ideas in Communications, a publication website featuring the blog column Chipnastics – the Art and Science of Chip Design. He is also president of PRN Engineering, a technical writing and market consulting company. Prior to these organizations, he spent about a dozen years as a contributing editor to Chip Design magazine. Concurrent with Chip Design, he was also the technical editorial manager at Maxim Integrated Products, and prior to Maxim, Dave spent over 35 years working as an engineer for the U.S. Army Electronics Command and an editor with Electronic Design Magazine.