Actel Corporation is the leading supplier of nonvolatile, low-power programmable technologies. The company’s mission is to manage power consumption at both the chip and system level, leveraging the industry’s lowest power FPGAs and unique mixed-signal FPGAs to offer system designers a competitive edge.
Actel’s history of reliability, coupled with its unique flash-based technology, sets them apart from traditional FPGA manufacturers. Whether you’re designing applications for consumer and portable medical markets, tomorrow’s environmentally friendly data centers, industrial controls, and the automotive, space and military/aerospace markets, power matters.
The IGLOO Starter Kit is complete, fully RoHS-compliant package that enables quick evaluation and design prototyping of Actel's IGLOO family and prototype your design. The Actel IGLOO devices are the lowest power FPGAs available in the world. Low dynamic power consumption, combined with low static power consumption and Flash*Freeze technology, gives the IGLOO device the lowest total system power offered by any FPGA. Detailed current-monitoring capabilities of the starter kit allow you to directly measure this low current consumption and validate your design's performance when using IGLOO devices. The on-board programmer enables easy experimentation with ISP, device serialization, and FlashLock on-chip system security.
The IGLOO development board has on-board voltage regulation, enabling you to set some of the I/O bank voltages independently. IGLOO devices can operate down to a core voltage of 1.2 V or 1.5 V, but require the core to be held at 1.5 V during programming. A regulator circuit to allow control of the core voltage is provided on each board. The core voltage may be switched manually or electronically for programming purposes and returned to the 1.2 V setting for the lowest power consumption during normal operation.
Key Features:
- Environmentally green, RoHS-compliant board
- Powered by USB cable or optional power supply
- Ability to measure current consumption of FPGA
- Ability to switch Vcore from 1.2 V to 1.5 V as needed
- Memory for embedded applications
- On-board programmer, no need for external supplies
- Lowest power 600 k system-gate FPGA in the world