Microsemi Unveils 65-nm Embedded Flash Platform
Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq:MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor technology
aimed at building a secure, smart, connected world, announced that its SOC Products Division, formerly known as Actel Corporation, today unveiled its new 65nm embedded flash platform, on which the company's next generation flash-based customizable SOCs (system-on-chips) will be built. Featuring a new, expandable 4-input LUT architecture, the company's low power, intelligent mixed signal and system critical series of SOCs will converge on state-of-the-art 65nm embedded flash process. Densities will increase an order of magnitude, offering twice the performance when compared to the previous generation. The new platform will maintain the company's low power leadership, providing 65 percent lower dynamic power while enhancing the Flash*Freeze feature to provide lower static current. Future devices will include industry-standard bus interfaces and also allow integration of hardened intellectual property such as embedded microprocessor cores, DSP blocks, high speed transceivers, memory interfaces, nonvolatile flash memory and programmable analog.
Esam Elashmawi, vice president of product development at Microsemi's SoC Products Division said that the demand for low power, firm error immunity, security and integration are non-negotiable in today's designs. He further added that with the move to 65nm, the increase in density and improvements in power and performance allowed them to target a much larger portion of the industrial, medical, mil/aero, avionics, communications and consumer markets.
Microsemi and UMC are first to market with the 65-nm embedded flash process. First commercial silicon is already in house, with availability expected first half of 2011. Microsemi's
System on chip Products Division is concurrently launching its customer lead program for early adopters in the commercial and industrial markets who want early access to emerging technology for their next generation designs.
Flash in Space
With over 20 years of commitment and innovation in the space and avionics industry, Microsemi's SOC Products Division, formerly known as Actel, fortifies its stronghold in the control systems of satellites. Mr. Elashmawi continued saying that they intended to extend their leadership in the market, targeting payload applications where performance, density and signal processing capabilities are key requirements. He also added that the reprogrammability and unparalleled reliability of their nonvolatile, flash technology is a very compelling solution.
Microsemi also offered a sneak peek at the next generation radiation tolerant (RT) flash-based SOCs. The 4th generation RT FPGAs will feature up to 20 million gates, offering a larger array of flip-flops, memory and hardened embedded IP cores. The devices will include digital signal processing (DSP) blocks, PLLs and high speed interfaces (such as SpaceWire, DDR2/3, PCI Express) to get data on and off chip quickly and efficiently. The new flash-based
FPGA architecture provides mitigation to total dose radiation and single event effects (SEE). When compared to SRAM FPGAs, Microsemi's radiation-tolerant flash-based FPGAs have intrinsic configuration immunity to single event upsets (SEU), removing the need for board level mitigation schemes.
Due to the normally long design cycles in the space industry, the company has been engaging with customers for over a year now regarding the next generation space-flight
FPGAs. The 5th Worldwide Actel Space Forum Series will kick off on December 2, 2010 in Los Angeles.
About Microsemi
Microsemi Corporation, with corporate headquarters in Irvine, California, is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of high performance analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, high reliability semiconductors and RF subsystems. The company's semiconductors manage and control or regulate power, protect against transient voltage spikes and transmit, receive and amplify signals.
by: Genny Brown
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