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 low-cost IGLOO PLUS Starter Kit features the IGLOO PLUS family of low-power FPGAs, which offer the industry's best power-, area-, logic- and feature-per-I/O ratios in a programmable device. The IGLOO PLUS Starter Kit is fully RoHS-compliant and contains a modular board, featuring the IGLOO PLUS AGLP125 device in a CSG289 package as well as a miniature programming stick, which allows both evaluation and prototyping of your design. Actel IGLOO PLUS devices range from 30,000 to 125,000 gates, support independent Schmitt trigger inputs, hot-swapping, and Flash*Freeze bus hold.
The user I/Os are taken out to holes on the board to allow the board to be wired into any extensive system where IGLOO PLUS would potentially be used, enabling you to design this into a typical application without the expense or time of building a dedicated board. By being fitted with the largest IGLOO PLUS die, the IGLOO PLUS Starter Kit enables a designer to target any device in the IGLOO PLUS family. In addition, the CSG289 package uses a common footprint across the AGLP030, AGLP060 and AGLP125 devices, enabling a designer to use the IGLOO PLUS kit to develop an application that can be directly targeted at a different device. The included programming stick enables easy experimentation with ISP, device serialization, and Flashlock on-chip system security.
Key Features:
- Environmentally-friendly, RoHS-compliant portable board
- Independent I/O bank and core voltage control
- Test points for measuring current consumption of the AGLP125-CSG289 device
- OLED display – Blue 96x16 (0.8") display for quick demos
- Powered by USB cable or external power
- All components used on the board: i.e., LEDs (2 mA), resets (µA range) and oscillator (2-3 mA) are low-power components
- USB-to-UART interface for hyperterminal on PC connected to board