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 ProASIC3 families of flash-based FPGAs, which include ProASIC3/E, ProASIC3 nano, and ProASIC3L, offer a breakthrough in power, price, performance, density, and features for today's most demanding high-volume applications. ProASIC3 devices support the ARM CortexM1 and ARM7 soft processor IP cores, offering the benefits of programmability and time-to-market at a cost as low as $0.49. The ProASIC3 families are based on nonvolatile flash technology and support 10 k to 3 M gates, up to 620 I/Os.
ProASIC3L FGPAs feature 40 percent lower dynamic power and 90 percent lower static power than the previous generation ProASIC3 FPGAs and orders of magnitude lower power than SRAM competitors, combining dramatically reduced power consumption with up to 350 MHz operation. The ProASIC3L family also supports the free implementation of an FPGA-optimized 32-bit ARM Cortex-M1 processor, allowing system designers to select the Actel flash FPGA solution that best meets their speed and power design requirements, regardless of application or volume. Combined with optimized software tools using Power-Driven Layout (PDL), this provides instant power reduction capabilities. In addition to supporting portable, consumer, industrial, communications, and medical applications with commercial and industrial temperature devices, Actel also offers ProASIC3EL FPGAs with specialized screening for military systems.