Actel Delivers Battery-Powered Icicle Kit Based on Industry's Lowest Power FPGA
Cool New Icicle™ Board Demonstrates Extended Battery Life for Portable Design
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., December 17, 2007 —
Further
highlighting the advantages of the industry's lowest power field-programmable
gate array (FPGA) for portable solutions, Actel Corporation today announced
the new Icicle™ Kit. Leveraging the company's 5-microwatt (µW) IGLOO™ FPGA,
the kit showcases the ultra low-power attributes, flexible implementation
options and battery-saving advantages of IGLOO for portable applications.
The $99 kit allows designers to easily and rapidly program, evaluate
and modify their low-power IGLOO-based portable designs. Powered by
a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, the 1.4" x 3.6" Icicle evaluation
board consumes less than one-seventh the power of competitive FPGA
development solutions in a design the size of a small cell phone.
"Power consumption and extended battery life are critical in today's
portable electronics marketplace, reinforcing the suitability of our
5-microwatt IGLOO FPGAs for this market. Actel's cool new Icicle Kit
enables designers to closely examine power consumption in various modes,
further showcasing the unprecedented low-power advantages and significant
battery savings offered by these industry-changing FPGA solutions," said
Fares Mubarak, senior vice president at Actel Corporation.
The Icicle board is an environmentally-friendly, RoHS-compliant solution
that integrates a nonvolatile, 125,000-gate AGL125 IGLOO FPGA. The
board includes the built-in, rechargeable lithium-ion battery, USB-to-UART
interfaces, and power management circuits.
In addition to the Icicle evaluation board, the kit includes a sophisticated
programming stick for extended programming functionality. Also offered
is a free, unlimited-use license for the Actel Libero Integrated Design
Environment (IDE) Gold edition. This enables designers using the Icicle
Kit to take advantage of the advanced power analysis tools recently
introduced with Actel's Libero IDE v8.1 to identify key sources of
power in their designs. Other kit elements include user's guide and
tutorial, printed circuit board (PCB) schematics, layout and sample
design.
Pricing and Availability
The Icicle Kit is available immediately from Actel for $99.
About Actel
Attacking power consumption from both the chip and the system levels,
Actel Corporation's innovative FPGAs and programmable system chip
solutions enable power-efficient design. The company is traded on
the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol ACTL and is headquartered
at 2061 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, Calif., 94043-4655. For more
information about Actel, visit http://www.actel.com.
Contact: Stephanie Mrus, Actel Corporation, 650.318.4614
