Microsemi Announces Availability of Space-saving SmartFusion cSoC Devices

“In today’s marketplace, the need for small, thin and lightweight packaging has expanded into industrial and communications applications,” said Rich Kapusta, vice president of marketing, SoC Products Group at Microsemi. “The new CS288 package offers exactly that along with a high number of user I/Os, making it ideal for small form-factor embedded systems across a number of industries. We look forward to continuing the expansion of our product offerings to ensure we provide our customers with the innovative embedded solutions they need.”



Key features include:

Small 11x11 mm square and only 1.05 mm in height

Available in leaded & lead-free (RoHS compliant) packages

Available in commercial and industrial temperature grades

Available across all densities enabling future proofing of designs

135 user IOs including FPGA, microcontroller GPIO and analogue I/Os

10/100 Ethernet, external memory controller, with I2C, SPI and UART interfaces

A complete 100 MHz ARM® Cortex-M3™ 32-bit microcontroller sub-system with up to 500K gates of FPGA and feature rich programmable analogue



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 customisation, 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.