Date: 10/03/2009

FPGA based embedded system development kit with analog function blocks

Actel Corporation unveiled fusion embedded development kit to develop FPGA based system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs with integrated mixed signal capabilities. Actel provides designers with license-free processor IP of ARM Cortex-M1 and Core8051 to use in developing FPGA based embedded systems.

"With Fusion and this new development kit, embedded system designers now can easily integrate custom logic and programmable analog features into their embedded processor designs," said Rich Kapusta, vice president marketing and business development. "There is nothing else like Fusion in the industry and this low-cost, easy-to-use kit puts a tremendous amount of capability right at your fingertips."

This kit is built around Actel's FPGA device M1AFS1500-FGG484 with 1.5M gates.

Additional contents found in this kit are:

Programming support of the Fusion device and debug with SoftConsole
512 Kbytes of SRAM
2 Mbytes of SPI Flash
OLED 96x16 display
USB cables
Full 10/100 Ethernet interface
Design examples
Documentation

Pricing and Availability: Available now for US $199

For details visit www.actel.com