Actel Special - SmartFusion Seminar, Win a SmartFusion Eval Kit, Power Management Solutions, FPGAs Available with Cryptographic Cores Offering DPA Resistance, Announcement in Largest SmartFusion Device in Production, FPGAs in Motor Control Applications

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Welcome to a Special issue of ACAL Technology news dedicated to Actel. To celebrate this special issue we are giving you the chance to WIN a SmartFusionTM Evaluation Kit! You can also register for the SmartFusion seminar taking place in Chesire on the 25th November. Read on for all of this and more!

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Register now for the SmartFusionTM seminar in November 2010, Cheshire

After the successful Cambridge workshop in June we have decided to hold an additional workshop in Cheshire on Thursday 25th November. We invite you to register for this intensive workshop by clicking the below link and completing the form. The workshop introduces engineers to the new family of SmartFusion intelligent mixed signal FPGA's. SmartFusion FPGA's are the only devices that integrate an FPGA, ARM® CortexTM-M3, and programmable analog, offering full customization, IP protection, and ease-of-use. The workshop will give you hands-on experience of the technology using evaluation kits provided at the workshop.


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Win a SmartFusion Evaluation Kit


Actel's SmartFusion Evaluation Kit offers a simple, low-cost way to try the world's only FPGA with hard ARM Cortex-M3 and programmable analog. The device contains on-chip flash and on-chip SRAM memory, as well as additional SPI flash memory. The board can communicate via Ethernet and HyperTerminal. The board also contains LEDs, switches, OLED and various voltage, current, and temperature monitoring functions for analogue experimentation on the board.


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Actel power management solutions


The SmartFusion MPM solution delivers advanced power management that is easily configured via a configuration GUI, enabling system designers to effortlessly integrate and configure intelligent power management with their ARM Cortex-M3 based embedded designs. Actel's graphical design configuration approach enables power management thresholds to be set, voltage trimming to be configured and sequencing functionality to be updated without changing the circuitry programmed into the FPGA fabric.


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Actel FPGAs now available with Cryptographic cores offering DPA resistance


Intellectual Property Cores from IP Cores, Inc. Now available for Use with SmartFusion, Fusion, ProASIC®3 and IGLOO® devices! Actel has announced that several of its FPGAs are now usable with cryptographic cores offering Differential Power Analysis (DPA) resistance. Customers designing with SmartFusion, Fusion, ProASIC3 and IGLOO devices can now protect their secret keys from DPA attacks by implementing AES, GCM or ECC intellectual property cores from IP Cores, Inc. These cores are the first commercially available cryptographic cores for FPGAs offering DPA resistance.


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Actel announces largest SmartFusion device in production

Actel has announced that the largest SmartFusion device is now in production. SmartFusion intelligent mixed signal FPGAs are the only devices to integrate an FPGA, an ARM Cortex-M3 processor and programmable analog, offering full customization, IP protection and ease-of-use. The largest device in the SmartFusion family offers 500,000 system gates, a hard 100 MHz 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontroller subsystem with 512 Kbytes of embedded flash and 64 Kbytes of embedded SRAM, programmable analog including 3 ADCs and 3 DACs, 10 comparators and much more.

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In This Issue
Register now for the SmartFusion seminar in November 2010, Cheshire
Win a SmartFusion Evaluation Kit
Actel power management solutions
Actel FPGAs now available with Cryptographic cores offering DPA resistance
Actel announces largest SmartFusion device in production
Using FPGAs in Motor Control applications
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Using FPGAs in Motor Control

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FPGAs are increasingly being used in motor control applications due to their robustness and customisability. Microcontrollers have typically been used to implement motor controls, with computation algorithms executed by software. Some of the challenges in this implementation are response time, a fixed number of PWM channels, limited communication interfaces and pre-determined analog triggering. The solution is to use an FPGA.


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