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With Actel IGLOO® FPGAs, the future of handheld electronics is in your hands.

Today's incredibly cool handheld, battery-powered, wireless-enabled electronic products are increasingly making use of ultra-low-power, small form-factor, flash-based FPGAs. - Clive 'Max' Maxfield, TechBites.com

With the industry's lowest power usage, and widest range of small packages, it's no wonder Actel IGLOO FPGAs can be found in the latest handheld portable devices. You probably have one in your hand or in your pocket. Actel has been designed into a wide array of handheld devices, including multifunctional smartphones, eBooks, cameras, medical devices, remote industrial monitoring devices, undersea seismic sensors, military radios, and the list goes on.

Actel IGLOO low-power FPGAs bring reprogrammability, design security, integration, small form factor, and live-at-power-up operation to handheld portable applications. And of course, you still get all the features and functions you expect from Actel FPGAs, at the lowest cost available. Get your battery-powered IGLOO Icicle Evaluation Kit. Start designing today

  • Reprogrammable flash technology
  • The industry's lowest-power solution at only 2 µW
  • Flash*Freeze state to maintain FPGA content in idle mode
  • Wide variety of small footprint packages as small as 3x3 mm
  • 1.2 V to 1.5 V single voltage operation
  • Enhanced I/O features
  • Clock conditioning circuit (CCCs) and phase-locked loop (PLLs)
  • Embedded SRAM and FlashROM nonvolatile memory (NVM)
  • In-system programming (ISP) and design security
  • Many device variants under $0.99

Dream big and design small...small enough to fit in your hand. With Actel IGLOO FPGAs, you can design the handheld of tomorrow, today. See how Actel FPGAs fit in the smallest portable applications.

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What you get...  
White papers Free software and webcasts
  • Putting low power and flexibility where it matters most
  • Power reduction techniques
  • Power, size, temperature, etc. for high-volume applications
  • How to address portability and miniaturization trends
  • Free Libero® Integrated Design Environment (IDE)
  • Actel FPGAs for Handheld Portable Applications
  • Actel's tools for low-power design