Winning Low-Power FPGA Family Delivers Dramatically Reduced Dynamic and Static Power
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Validating the need for ultra-low-power programmable solutions, Actel Corporation today announced that its new flash-based ProASIC3L field-programmable gate array (FPGA) family has been selected as a winner in the Portable Design magazine 2008 Editor's Choice Awards. Awarded annually, the Editor's Choice awards recognize innovative electronic components that make possible the design of leading-edge portable products. This year's winners were selected from thousands of products and were awarded in 15 categories.
Featuring 40 percent lower dynamic power and 90 percent lower static power than its previous-generation ProASIC3 FPGAs, the ProASIC3L flash-based family combines dramatically reduced power consumption with up to 350MHz operation and is ideal for portable applications in the consumer, industrial and medical arenas.
"Every year, Portable Design chooses the most innovative, new products from among thousands of product releases that cross our desks," said John Donovan, Portable Design's Editor-in-Chief. "The Actel ProASIC3L family was a stand-out due to the combination of low power and high performance, as well as the ability to incorporate the ARM Cortex-M1 processor free of charge. This is exactly the kind of functionality and design flexibility our readers demand for next-generation portable design."
Introduced in January 2008, the ProASIC3L family is comprised of four family members ranging from 250,000 to three million gates. 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-based FPGA solution that best meets their speed and power design requirements regardless of application or volume.
"The Portable Design Editor's Choice award recognizes the tremendous value that Actel's ProASIC3L can offer the power-sensitive portable design arena," said Fares Mubarak, senior vice president at Actel. "With the introduction of the ProASIC3L family, today's designers in high-performance market segments now have access to flexible, feature-rich solutions that can offer speed and low cost as well as low dynamic and static power consumption."
About Portable Design
For the last 11 years Portable Design has been "the engineer's resource for portable applications." Each month, Portable Design delivers news, product reviews and feature articles focusing on consumer electronics, portable power and wireless communications. With editions in the US, China and Taiwan, Portable Design is the only magazine dedicated exclusively to the interests of engineers creating portable electronic devices. For more information on Portable Design magazine, visit http://www.portabledesign.com/.
About Actel
Attacking power consumption from both the chip and the system levels, Actel Corporation's innovative FPGAs and programmable system chip solutions enable power-efficient design. The company is traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol ACTL and is headquartered at 2061 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, Calif., 94043-4655. For more information about Actel, visit http://www.actel.com/.
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