Microsemi begins shipping production-qualified SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs
The company also announced the availability of its full-featured SmartFusion2 development kit with support for mainstream industry interfaces.
Since the SmartFusion2 introduction in October 2012, Microsemi has engaged with more than 400 customers worldwide, and the device family has been adopted into numerous customer systems in the communications, industrial and defense markets. Microsemi’s lead customer program, coupled with the early availability of SoC development tools and now production-qualified devices and a development kit, enables customers to ramp to manufacturing volumes in a timely manner.
Paul Ekas, vice president of marketing for Microsemi, said: “Customers seeking to design with mainstream FPGA features, including high-speed SERDES, DDR3 memory controllers and integrated math blocks, can now do so on the industry’s lowest power, most secure and SEU-immune SoC FPGA.”
“HMS is delighted that SmartFusion2 has gone into volume production. The SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs provide an ideal secure and flash-based programmable system-on-chip platform that addresses our existing customer requirements and tomorrow’s expectations,” said Staffan Dahlstrӧm, CEO, HMS Networks. “The combination of a non-volatile FPGA that does not require an external boot device and a compact, low-power ARM Cortex M3 processor is ideal for our small form-factor industrial networking systems. Moreover, the built-in security features of these FPGAs will prove to be useful for future customers who are building highly secure versions of these systems”.
Designers of safety-critical, industrial networking and high availability communications systems now no longer have to compromise between mainstream features and the added benefits of superior reliability and security that SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs provide. The production silicon is available with a complete ecosystem of software, IP and design kits that enable customers to deploy low-risk solutions.
Availability
The SmartFusion2 M2S050 and M2S050T devices are in full volume production and available for order now, with the remaining family members scheduled to begin shipping through the remainder of 2013 and early 2014. The SmartFusion2 development kit, part number SF2-DEV-KIT-PP, is available for $1,800.
More information about Microsemi’s SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs at www.microsemi.com/smartfusion2
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