Actel is the leading supplier of nonvolatile low-power programmable technologies. The company’s mission is to manage power consumption from both the chip and system, 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 market, tomorrow’s environmentally friendly data centers, industrial controls, and the automotive, space and military/aerospace markets, power matters.
The Fusion Embedded Development Kit is fully RoHS-compliant and contains a credit card-sized modular board featuring the incredibly powerful ARM Cortex-M1-enabled Fusion M1AFS1500 device in the FGG484 package as well as a miniature programming stick. The Fusion Embedded Development Kit is a complete solution that enables you to quickly evaluate Actel's Fusion mixed-signal FPGA family and prototype your design. Actel Fusion integrates configurable analog, large flash memory blocks, comprehensive clock generation and management circuitry, and high-performance, flash-based programmable logic in a monolithic device. The Fusion Embedded Development Kit quickly demonstrates that a single-chip solution for complex embedded systems can monitor analog signals, manage power, and monitor temperature. This can all be done from the Fusion FPGA, which only needs a single 3.3 V supply. Embedded systems use a variety of microprocessor cores such as the ARM Cortex-M1 and the Core8051s soft cores; design examples using both of these soft cores are included in this kit. The included programming stick enables easy experimentation with ISP, device serialization, and FlashLock on-chip system security.
The Fusion Embedded Development Kit board has on-board voltage regulation, enabling you to internally generated voltage standards from the Fusion device or externally generated from the on-board regulators.