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Actel FPGAs for Handheld Portable Applications

With the industry’s lowest power usage, and widest range of small packages, it’s no wonder Actel’s low-power FPGAs can be found in the latest handheld portable devices. You probably have one in your hand or in your pocket. Actel has been designed into a wide array of handheld devices, including multifunctional smartphones, eBooks, cameras, medical devices, remote industrial monitoring devices, undersea seismic sensors, military radios, and the list goes on.

Actel IGLOO low-power FPGAs bring reprogrammability, design security, integration, small form factor, and live-at-power-up operation to handheld portable applications. And of course, you still get all the features and functions you expect from Actel FPGAs, at the lowest cost available.

  • Reprogrammable flash technology
  • The industry’s lowest-power solution at only 2 µW
  • Flash*Freeze state to maintain FPGA content in idle mode
  • Wide variety of small footprint packages as small as 3×3 mm
  • 1.2 V to 1.5 V single voltage operation
  • Enhanced I/O features
  • Clock conditioning circuit (CCCs) and phase-locked loop (PLLs)
  • Embedded SRAM and FlashROM nonvolatile memory (NVM)
  • In-system programming (ISP) and design security
  • Many device variants under $0.99

Dream big and design small…small enough to fit in your hand. With Actel IGLOO FPGAs, you can design the handheld of tomorrow, today. See how Actel FPGAs fit in the smallest portable applications. View the short webcast to learn more. 

wendy_lockhart.jpgSpeaker: Wendy Lockhart, Sr. Manager, Design Solutions Marketing and Training, Actel

Wendy Lockhart joined Actel in 2002 and has served in a variety of roles in the company’s marketing organization. Prior to joining the company, she was applications manager at Atmel Corporation, and prior to that held various positions with the FPGA integrated development systems group for Cadence in Scotland. Lockhart holds a master’s degree in electronics from University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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