Actel Corporation unveiled SmartFusion™ FPGA

Key components and features of the device are:

Full-Featured FPGA:

SmartFusion devices feature Actel's proven, flash-based ProASIC®3 FPGA architecture. Built on an advanced 130-nm CMOS process, Actel offers densities ranging from 60K to 500K system gates, with 350 MHz performance and up to 204 I/Os. This combination enables the integration of existing functions from other devices, substantially reducing board space and power consumption of the overall system.

Microcontroller Subsystem:

Intelligence is added to the FPGA in the form of a microcontroller subsystem that features a hard ARM Cortex-M3 processor running at 100 MHz. A full complement of standard peripherals and features include:
Multi-layer AHB communications matrix with up to 16 Gbps throughput
10/100 Ethernet MAC with RMII interface
Two of each: SPI, I2C, UART, 32-bit Timers
Up to 512 KB flash memory and 64 KB of SRAM
External memory controller (EMC)
8-channel DMA controller


Programmable Analog:

The innovative and proprietary Analog Compute Engine (ACE) performs sample sequencing and computation, which offloads the ARM Cortex-M3 processor from analog initialization and processing. The programmable analog system features:
ADCs and DACs with 1 percent accuracy.
Up to three 12-bit ADC with up to 600 Ksps sampling rate
Up to three 12-bit first order sigma delta DACs
Up to ten 50 ns high-speed comparators
Multiple integrated temperature, voltage and current monitors