In the short span of three decades, electronics have not only proliferated in our world, but have also gotten smaller and more portable. The march of Moore’s Law has brought portability to the consumer, industrial, military, medical and other markets.
As this demand within end markets has exploded, so too has the pressure for low power subsystems and ICs to power them. The world is getting more excited about the increasing opportunities that electronics integration and mobility bring, causing a feverish demand for new products with new features to appear on store shelves “now.” This has radically altered electronics design choices and decisions upstream. Expensive ASICs or custom ICs simply do not work in markets where cost is a factor, but the ability to hit tight market windows and adapt to changing technology standards is paramount.
This paradigm shift puts the design imperative on Actel’s flash-based FPGAs, which offer both low power capability and system design flexibility to meet time-to-market demands and changing user requirements and standards. With the industry’s lowest power and widest range of small packages, it’s no wonder Actel IGLOO FPGAs can be found in the latest handheld portable devices. Actel has been designed into a wide array of handheld devices, including smartphones, eBooks, cameras, medical devices, industrial scanners, military radios, and the list goes on.
Actel’s IGLOO FPGAs offer several benefits and solutions to enable next-generation handheld portable applications, including low power, small footprint packages, design security, live at power-up operation, integration and low cost.
- 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 circuits (CCCs) and phase-locked loops (PLLs)
- Embedded SRAM and FlashROM nonvolatile memory (NVM)
- In-system programming (ISP) and design security
- Many device variants under $0.99
In this Chalk Talk, host Amelia Dalton chats with Naseem Aslam about Actel solutions for handheld portable applications.
Speaker: Naseem Aslam
Senior Product Marketing Manager for the Low-Power FPGAs
Actel
Naseem Aslam is the Senior Product Marketing Manager for the Low-Power FPGAs at Actel. Previously, Naseem held various marketing and applications engineering positions at Integrated Device Technology (IDT) and Altera focusing on Communications ASSP and High-End/Low-Cost FPGA product lines. Naseem holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and a M.S. degree in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University. He can be reached at naseem.aslam@actel.com.
