‘Revolutionary’ fpgas targeted at hand held market
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SiliconBlue has announced what it believes to be ‘revolutionary’ single chip, low power fpgas that set new standards for price, power and size, whilst providing ‘asic like’ logic capacity.
Targeted at battery powered handheld consumer applications, the devices are set for manufacture on TSMC’s 65nm low power cmos process.
Devices in the iCE65 family incorporate non volatile configuration memory technology, which eliminates the need for external flash.
John Birkner, vp of strategic marketing, pictured, said: “We’ve taken an old architecture and reworked it from the ground up using the latest low power technology.”
SiliconBlue says it is the first company to combine low power, non volatile configuration memory (NVCM) and standard sram technologies at the 65nm LP process node. Birkner says SiliconBlue has selected a high Vt, low leakage process and claims the approach will scale to 40nm and beyond. “Design of our 40nm product family is already underway,” he added.
The iCE65 range will have three members, with nominal gate counts of 2k, 4k and 8k. These parts will have a maximum of 128, 176 and 222 I/O respectively.
