e-Appliance Brochure - Actel - #1

^^^^^^^^^h Low Power, Small Form-Factor Logic

is the CS49, which occupies less than 50mm² of board space while offering up to 128 dedicated registers and 36 I/Os. Our programmable logic has been used to build inter­faces between the CPU, the flash memory and the keypad, while also providing error correction algorithms

and power control circuits.

Master the Market with a Low Powered Digital Camera

Like many other portable appliances, digital camera designs require low

power consumption. Since digital cameras often sit unused on a shelf for weeks or months, it is important to keep the drain on the camera batteries to a minimum. Owners of digital cameras who find themselves

constantly changing the camera's

batteries will soon take their busi­ness elsewhere. To satisfy the need for low power consumption, Actel has designed a family of FPGAs

with a standby low power mode of

<250uA. In this static

mode, as the camera would be most

of the time, Actel FPGAs consume less than a fourth of the power of an average CPLD. In dynamic

operating mode, Actel FPGAs con­sume a sixth of the power of the

average CPLD, and less than half

the power of the closest competing "low power" CPLD. Where conser­vation of battery power is critical for systems needing very high levels of reliability, Actel FPGAs far sur­pass other programmable logic. Actel FPGAs have been used to interface from the CPU to the LCD controller, to the keypad, and finally to the image sensor, offering the designer the freedom to create the highest quality digital camera to meet market demands.

Protect your Design: Secure your Set-top box

Set-top box designers need to com­bine low manufacturing cost at very high volumes with reliability and security in order to create a successful product. With their leading high

volume pricing and the protection they provide against design theft and

pirating, Actel FPGAs are the natural

choice to use in set-top box designs.

You can use them to interface func­tions between NTSC and PAL

encoders and decoders, system processors, and various external

interfaces such as USB2.0 and IEEE1394. Our FPGAs are non­volatile, needing to be programmed only one time. Other FPGAs are

SRAM-based, requiring that the

binary files containing the design information be loaded into the

FPGA every time the system is

powered-up. It is very easy to inter­cept, copy, or reverse engineer these binary files. The construction of Actel FPGAs effectively prevents

reverse engineering of a design,

offering the most secure solution available for you to use in your set top box design.

The MP3 Player: Appearance

is Everything

Size, weight, and appearance are

important factors for consumers of MP3 players. Consequently, designers

of these products need to minimize

component count and form factor.

Our small footprint packages give

enclosure designers more freedom to choose a compact and eye-catching product packaging style, which in

turn will attract more customers. To meet market demands, Actel's eX FPGA package choices include chip-

scale packages. The smallest of these

In the rapidly evolving e-Appliance market segment, designers who produce high volume consumer electronics such as digital cameras, personal digital players, and set top boxes are in the difficult position of trying to find products that enable them to reduce board space, power consumption, and cost while maintaining maximum performance. Actel has the winning solution: Actel's e-Appliance FPGAs offer significant reductions in design costs, board

area, and power consumption while speeding time-to-market for performance­intensive applications... all this in a single chip.

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3,000 64 128 128 81

Y

6,000

12,000

256 512 512 132

Y

12,000

256 512 512 130

24,000

528

990 924

180

48,000

1.080

1,980 1,800 249

N

128

256 256

100

TQ64, TQ100, TQ64,TQ100, TQ100, CS128, PQ208, TQ100 PQ208, TQ100 PQ208, TQ100 CS49, CS128 CS49, CS128 CS180 TQ144, FG144 TQ144, FG144 TQ144, TQ176

FG256 PG329, FG144

FG256, FG484

Actel Corporation • 955 East Arques Avenue • Sunnyvale, California USA 94086 Tel: (408) 739-1010 • Fax: (408) 739-1540

Actel Europe, Ltd. • Maxfli Court, Riverside Way • Camberley, Surrey GU15 3YL • United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1276 401450 • Fax: +44 (0)1276 401490

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