OEMs targeted with FPGAs, hi-rel devices

25th July 2016

Mick Elliott

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Solid State Supplies says it has positioned itself as the prominent source in the UK for the latest technology from Microsemi, as the semiconductor manufacturer further strengthens its supply chain by closer cooperation with key channel partners. The strategy will see the UK market served more effectively.

The distributor will offer an expansive range of products, along with application knowledge and the engineering support that OEM engineering teams need to expedite their development projects.

A dedicated staff of FAEs that are able to give hands-on advice is allied to free seminars/training days on a regular basis to help engineers gain greater expertise when implementing systems using Microsemi hardware.

Three Microsemi product ranges are available from Solid State Supplies.

With up to 150k of logic elements, the devices in the IGLOO 2 family of Flash-based FPGAs are highly suited to applications where energy efficient operation is a priority. Through their power-optimised architecture they are able to deliver superior performance levels while drawing only minimal current.

Each device integrates a broad array of I/Os, plus sophisticated security functions and a large memory resource. They offer 3x lower static power and 25% lower total power consumption figures than competing devices without any compromise on functionality.

In order to address safety-critical and mission-critical applications there is an extensive selection of discrete devices (diodes, transistors, MOSFETs, IGBTs, etc.) capable of dealing with even the most demanding of environments.

The devices supplied are resilient to shock/vibration, support greatly elevated temperature ranges and are radiation-tolerant or radiation-hardened. A choice quality screening options offered, as well as compliancy with military standards (MIL-PRF-19500, MIL-PRF-38534, etc.).

Solid State Supplies is fully AS9120A certified and has decades of experience when it comes to dealing with difficult design challenges in the avionics, defence, oil/gas and heavy industrial sectors, amongst others.

The SmartFusion2 Security Evaluation Kit facilitates the development of secure embedded systems. The SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA device at the heart of each of these kits has an ultra-reliable Flash-based FPGA fabric, with a 166MHz ARM Cortex-M3 embedded processor and highly advanced security processing accelerators.

Among the data and IP security features incorporated are elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), SRAM physically un-clonable mechanism, random number generator (RNG), anti-tamper protection, AES/SHA encryption algorithms, etc.