Microsemi Announces Availability of Cost-optimised SmartFusion cSoC Device

Cost-effective Solution Ideal for Applications in Industrial, Communications, Medical and Military/Aerospace Segments

Expanding our award-winning SmartFusion family allows us to address a broader range of performance and cost requirements of a wide variety of embedded systems while maintaining core functionality, said Rich Kapusta, vice president terrestrial products, SoC Products Group at Microsemi. Customers are able to standardize on highly integrated SmartFusion platforms, enabling them to offer a broad spectrum of low end to high end systems without sacrificing performance.

The newest family member in Microsemi's cSoC portfolio, the A2F060 device features 60,000 system gates, a hard 100 MHz 32-bit ARM® Cortex(TM)-M3-based microcontroller subsystem with 128 Kbytes of embedded flash and 16 Kbytes of embedded SRAM, and programmable analogue including one ADC, one DAC and two comparators. Additional key features include:

Microcontroller Subsystem
100 MHz, 125 DMIPS throughput with 128 Kbytes flash and 16 Kbytes SRAM
Dedicated external memory controller, two of each: SPI, UART, 32-bit timers

Programmable Analogue
One 12-bit SAR ADCs with up to 11 channels and 500 Ksps sampling speed including 8-/10-bit modes and sample and hold
One 12-bit sigma-delta DAC with 500 Ksps update rate
Two clock conditioning circuits (CCCs) and one integrated analogue PLL with phase shift, multiply/divide, and delay capabilities; and input frequency range from 1.5 to 350 MHz
Two bipolar high-voltage monitors (with four input ranges from +/-2.5 V to -11.5/+14 V) with 1 percent accuracy

FPGA Fabric
350 MHz system performance; 60 K system gates and 36 Kbytes SRAM
Create additional standard interfaces or proprietary interfaces using high speed FPGA I/Os and gates
Up to 107 user I/Os including FPGA, microcontroller GPIO and analogue I/Os

Microsemi's SmartFusion cSoCs are the only devices that integrate an FPGA, a complete microcontroller built around a hard ARM Cortex-M3 processor and programmable analogue, enabling full customization, IP protection and ease-of-use. Based on Microsemi's proprietary flash process, SmartFusion devices are ideal for hardware and embedded designers who need a highly integrated SoC that provides more flexibility than traditional fixed-function microcontrollers, and significantly reduces the cost of soft processor cores on traditional FPGAs.