Actel SmartFusion: Intelligent, Innovative Integration
The whole point of an FPGA is flexibility. We could also mention integration and say instead that the whole point of an FPGA is flexibility and integration. But then there is cost savings. So the whole point of an FPGA is flexibility, integration and cost savings. Yet there is also power reduction. And then there’s security…
All these advantages (and others besides) have made FPGAs very popular over the years. Engineers like the flexibility, space and power reduction and integration that FPGAs provide. So it stands to reason that adding more flexibility, more integration and more cost and space savings would be a good thing.
Actel’s new family of SmartFusion chips takes all the traditional advantages of FPGAs and combines them with equally flexible analog circuitry and the world’s most popular embedded processor. It’s all rolled up in one package, and all under your control. It’s a single “super chip” that could very probably be the only chip in your system. How’s that for space, time, power and cost savings?
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