Actel Corporation announced it has shipped the one-millionth unit of its successful flash-based ProASIC Plus field-programmable gate array (FPGA) family. The milestone shipment is significant for ...

There’s only one company making flash-based FPGA, that’s Actel. Is it a good idea? What’s it used for? Actel, for long known as an anti-fuse house, went for flash-based FPGA some while back and has ...

Higher mask cost and increasing minimum lot sizes, two economic trends of the semiconductor industry, are making FPGAs increasingly more cost effective compared to the competing ASIC solutions. As a ...

Microsemi's IGLOO2 flash-based FPGAs incorporate differential power analysis countermeasure technology to prevent counterfeiting and hardware attacks. Figure 1. The IGLOO2 FPGA uses an instant-on, ...

The substantial growth experienced by the portable point-of-sale (POS) market has combined with the falling cost of wireless networking to make portable POS terminals popular. However, these devices ...

1. Microsemiâ s new PolarFire FPGA family takes on mid-range RAM-based FPGAs in terms of performance while delivering low-cost, power-optimized solutions. Microsemi has had a range of FPGAs, from its ...

Actel has run its flash-based FPGA business up to a $60m a year run-rate and believes it has reached a tipping point where it can start to significantly erode SRAM-based FPGA volumes. “We believe ...

Infineon Technologies has announced a high-density radiation-tolerant (RadTol) NOR Flash memory product that's qualified to MIL-PRF-38535’s QML-V flow (QML-V Equivalent). The QML-V flow is the highest ...

The substantial growth experienced by the portable point-of-sale (POS) market has combined with the falling cost of wireless networking to make portable POS terminals popular. However, these devices ...

Infineon's 256-Mb and 512-Mb non-volatile, radiation-resistant NOR flash memories are low-pin-count single chips for applications such as FPGA configuration, image ...