A c t e l ’s e X F P G A s
Enabling the “Wired” Lifestyle
Have you had enough of the seemingly
hopeless search for the
ultimate low-cost solution for
low-power, high-performance
designs? The search is now over:
Actel’s eX family of FPGAs has
optimum circuit design capability
and will meet all your power, speed,
package, and price requirements.
Targeted for the e-Appliance and
communications infrastructure markets,
eX enables designers to use
single-chip programmable logic for
their traditional low-density ASIC
requirements without the long
leadtimes and costly NRE charges.
Save Energy—
Lower your Power
Consumers don’t care what the
standby current of a component in
their device is…but they do care
about how often they have to
replace their batteries. Recognizing
this, designers of consumer electronics
are focusing on using chips with
low power consumption. The eX
family of FPGAs combines the
inherently low power attributes of
Actel’s antifuse technology with a
low power “sleep” mode to extend
battery life. Another benefit of low
power consumption is increased
device reliability, an important consideration
in the communications
infrastructure market. The eX
devices’ 2.5V core operation offers
additional power savings, while
their I/Os are capable of driving
2.5V, 3.3V, or 5.0V, and are 5.0Vtolerant.
The I/Os are also hot-swap
compliant, requiring no special
power-up or -down sequence.
Performance
With internal clock speeds greater
than 300 MHz and clock-to-out
delays as fast as 4.2 ns, Actel’s eX
FPGAs offer the high performance
that designers need without a power
penalty. The eX family offers ‘ease
of speed’ with its fine-grained
architecture and segmented routing
structure. With eX you don’t have
to use any tricks or performanceenhancing
techniques to meet your
design requirements.
