Battery-powered Icicle Kit based on “industry’s lowest” power FPGA
(Technology News, 21 Jan 2008 )
Further highlighting the advantages of the industry’s lowest power field-programmable gate array (FPGA) for portable solutions, Actel Corporation announced the new Icicle Kit. Leveraging the company’s 5µW IGLOO FPGA, the kit showcases the ultra low-power attributes, flexible implementation options and battery-saving advantages of IGLOO for portable applications. The kit allows designers to easily and rapidly program, evaluate and modify their low-power IGLOO-based portable designs. Powered by a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, the 1.4” x 3.6” Icicle evaluation board consumes less than one-seventh the power of competitive FPGA development solutions in a design the size of a small cellphone.
The Icicle board is an environmentally-friendly, RoHS-compliant solution that integrates a nonvolatile, 125,000-gate AGL125 IGLOO FPGA. The board includes the built-in, rechargeable lithium-ion battery, USB-to-UART interfaces, and power management circuits.
