Low-Power FPGAs

The ProASIC3 families of flash-based FPGAs, which include ProASIC3/E, ProASIC3 nano, and ProASIC3L, offer a breakthrough in power, price, performance, density, and features for today's most demanding high-volume applications. ProASIC3 devices support the ARM® Cortex™-M1 and ARM7™ soft processor IP cores, offering the benefits of programmability and time-to-market at a cost as low as $0.49. The ProASIC3 families are based on nonvolatile flash technology and support 10 k to 3 M gates, up to 620 I/Os.

In addition to supporting portable, consumer, industrial, communications and medical applications with commercial and industrial temperature devices, Actel also offers ProASIC3 FPGAs with specialized screening for automotive and military systems.

Key Features

• Low-power consumption
• As low as $0.49 unit cost
• Lowest total system cost
• 1.2 V or 1.5 V support
• Cost-optimized, reprogrammable, and nonvolatile
• Supports 128-bit AES decryption for device configuration
• Single chip and live at power-up
• 1,024 bits of user flash memory
• Advanced I/O structure
• ARM Cortex-M1 processor support
• Immune to configuration loss due to atmospheric neutrons (firm errors)
• Available in automotive (T-Grade) and military temperature grade
• ISO/TS 16949:2002 certified

The ProASIC3 series includes:

• ProAsic3/E
  • With ARM Cortex-M1
  • With CoreMP

• ProASIC3 nano

• ProASIC3L
  • With ARM Cortex-M1