Actel Continues to Ease Embedded Design With Extensive Library of IP

Actel's IP Library Includes Support for the New SmartFusion Intelligent Mixed Signal FPGA

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May 11, 2010, 08:00 ET

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Actel Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTL) today announced that embedded designers can now take advantage of a broad portfolio of Actel intellectual property (IP) cores available for SmartFusion™ intelligent mixed signal FPGAs. SmartFusion mixed signal FPGAs are the only device that combines an FPGA, ARM® Cortex™-M3 processor and programmable analog on a single chip. In addition to the multiple peripherals hard coded into the device, Actel enables full customization by offering an extensive library of soft peripherals that can be placed in the low power flash FPGA fabric.

Actel's IP cores enable customers to easily incorporate robust functionality, take complete advantage of the newly introduced SmartFusion devices and build a solution that meets the exact needs of their design.

A large library of Actel IP cores are included in the Libero® Integrated Design Environment (IDE) IP bundle, with obfuscated-RTL version included with the FREE Libero Gold license, and RTL-source version included with the $2,500 Libero Platinum license. The library of Actel's IP cores can be configured and connected in the Libero IDE SmartDesign IP design tool.

SmartFusion compatible Actel IP cores available in the Libero IDE SmartDesign IP design tool include:


Core16550	UART with or without FIFO software compatible with the Texas Instruments 16550 devices
Core3DES	Implements triple DES to NIST FIPS PUB 46-3 supporting 168-bit key size
Core429	Implements ARINC 429 two-wire, point-to-point serial control communications avionics data bus
Core8051s	ASM51-compatible 8051 microcontroller core with advanced peripheral bus (APB) bus
CoreABC	Simple low gate count controller for APB devices
CoreAES128	Implements the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) using the Rijndael algorithm per FIPS PUB 197
CoreAHB	AMBA bus interface used to connect subsystem cores to Actel's 32-bit ARM processors
CoreAHB2APB	AHB slave that connects the AHB to the APB and acts as the master on the APB
CoreAHBLite	Multi-master implementation of AHB-Lite bus interconnect standard used to connect subsystem cores to Actel's 32-bit ARM processors
CoreAhbSram	AHB bus interface to embedded SRAM memory blocks
CoreAHBtoAPB3	AHB slave and AMBA 3 APB master bridging between high-speed AHB domain and low-power APB domain
CoreAPB	AMBA bus interface used to connect subsystem cores to Actel's soft processors
CoreAPB3	AMBA bus interface used to connect subsystem cores to Actel's soft processors; fully compatible with the APB v3.0 protocol
CoreAPBSRAM	APB bus interface to embedded SRAM memory blocks
CoreCORDIC	CORDIC engine providing an iterative method of performing vector rotations using only shifts and adds
CoreDES	Implements DES to NIST FIPS PUB 46-3 supporting 56-bit key size
CoreEDAC	Error detection and correction (EDAC)
CoreFROM	APB slave that for access to SmartFusion 128-byte FlashROM (FROM) memory
CoreGPIO	APB bus peripheral that provides up to 32 inputs and 32 outputs for general purpose use
CoreI2C	APB-driven serial interface, supporting I2C, SMBus, and PMBus data transfers
CoreInterrupt	APB Slave component that provides configurable interrupt processing
CoreLPC	Low-pin-count (LPC) APB component that accepts LPC host-side system interface commands
CoreMBX	Allows data messages (mail) to pass back and forth from one processing element to another via "mailbox" message handling scheme
CoreMemCtrl	AHB slave component that supports access to external SRAM and flash memory resources
CorePWM	General purpose multi-channel pulse width modulator (PWM) core for up to 16 separate PWM digital outputs, configurable via register values
CoreQEI	Quadrature Encoder core for motor control applications
CoreRemap	APB slave that is a small control block with a single bit register for control aliasing of memory resources at the bottom of the processor address space
CoreRSDEC	Configurable Actel FPGA–optimized Reed-Solomon decoder core RTL generator
CoreRSENC	Configurable Actel FPGA–optimized Reed-Solomon encoder core RTL generator
CoreSDR	Interface to external RAM supporting up to 1024 Mbytes via synchronous interface; supports all standard SDRAM chips and DIMMs
CoreSPI	Serial Peripheral Interface, master and/or slave, full duplex, synchronous, 8-bit serial data transfer, high bit rates
CoreTimer	APB slave that provides an interrupt-generating, programmable decrementing counter
CoreUART	Serial communication controller with a flexible serial data interface
CoreUARTapb	Serial communications interface with AMBA APB bus interface
CoreWatchdog	APB slave providing a means of monitoring processors for and recovering from software crashes

In addition, the SmartFusion cores listed below are available for individual licensing from Actel:


Core10/100	10/100 Mbps Ethernet MAC with host controller
Core1553BRM	MIL-STD-1553B Bus Controller (BC), Remote Terminal (RT) and Monitor Terminal (MT)
Core1553BRT	MIL-STD-1553B Remote Terminal
CorePCIF	Configurable PCI core capable of 33/66 MHz operation with either 32 or 64-bit bus widths in master, target and master/target configurations

Detailed information on Actel IP cores can be found on the Actel website at: http://www.actel.com/products/ip/DirectCores.aspx

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