Date: 17/09/2010

New SmartFusion development kit from Actel

Actel has released the A2F500 Development Kit, the latest member of Actel's SmartFusion mixed signal FPGA family. This SmartFusion development kit is supported by Actel's Libero Integrated Design Environment (IDE), which includes SoftConsole Eclipse-based embedded software development environment.

Actel also announced the production availability of SmartFusion A2F500 devices. The device offers 500K system gates, a hard 100 MHz 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontroller subsystem with 512 MB of embedded flash and 64 KB of SRAM. The programmable analog blocks include 3 ADCs and 3 DACs, 10 comparators and much more.

The A2F500 Development Kit includes:
--SmartFusion development board with SmartFusion A2F500M3G-FGG484 device
--Ethernet, EtherCAT, CAN, RS485, UART, I2C and SPI interfaces
--Mixed Signal and Digital Expansion Header to connect application daughtercards
--Extensive off-chip SRAM, Pseudo SRAM, SPI Serial Flash and NOR Flash memories
--Several switches, LEDs, Organic LEDs
--Low-cost programming stick (LCPS)

Price:
A2F500-DEV-KIT : US$999
A2F-EVAL-KIT: US$99