SiliconBlue Technologies Expands iCE65 mobileFPGA Family
iCE65L01 mobileFPGA device provides programmable, ultra-low power, high logic-capacity alternative to fixed function ASSPs and small ASICs
SiliconBlue® Technologies, the leader in ultra-low power, single-chip SRAM FPGAs, today announced that it has expanded its iCE65™ mobileFPGA™ family with the iCE65L01 device. Today’s new battery-operated handheld products often require a programmable logic device to implement functions that may have been supported by application-specific standard products (ASSPs) or ASICs in the past. These functions, such as intelligent battery-life management and interrupt offload (to keep the application processor in a low-power mode as long as possible) are fast becoming differentiators for products such as eBook readers and SmartBook computers. The iCE65L01, with 1,280 logic cells and up to 93 user I/O pins, is the perfect device to address these functions.
“Battery life management is a huge challenge for designers,” said Kapil Shankar, CEO of SiliconBlue. “Standard, fixed-function devices are insufficient to meet their needs. The iCE65L01 mobileFPGA device is the latest example in our strategy to provide a comprehensive family of devices offering the benefits of programmability and time-to-market to handheld, mobile product designers. The ASIC-like cost, high logic capacity, ultra-low power, and advanced-package technology of the iCE65 devices is a winning combination that provides the scalability required for our customers to implement features that differentiate their products.”
SiliconBlue’s iCE65L01 mobileFPGA device is available now in three packages: VQ100, CB132 and QFN84. Customers can design with these new product/package combinations using the iCEcube钒 VHDL/Verilog-based development software. ES samples and software support are available now. For more information visit: www.siliconbluetech.com
About the iCE65 Family
iCE65 ultra low-power mobileFPGAs are the premier programmable logic solution for consumer, battery-based applications such as smart phones, eBooks/ePaper, netbooks, digital picture frames, mobile internet devices, portable media players, hand-held POS, medical instruments, digital still cameras and flash camcorders. These applications have an extremely short development and product life cycle; therefore, by combining the reprogramming flexibility benefit of FPGAs with the low cost, low power and single-chip benefits of ASICs, iCE65 FPGAs offer the “best of both worlds” solution for handheld consumer system designers.
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