Product category: Programmable Logic Devices
News Release from: Actel Europe | Subject: RTAX-S family
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 06 July 2005
FPGAs are fully qualified for space
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Actel Corp is shipping fully qualified RTAX-S field-programmable gate arrays to customers developing high-reliability space-flight systems.
Actel Corp is shipping fully qualified RTAX-S field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to customers developing high-reliability space-flight systems The RTAX-S family ranges in density from 250,000 to 2 million equivalent system gates and meets the performance and radiation-resistance requirements of satellite bus and payload applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 9 Jul 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Actel Corp has released engineering samples of all three devices in its high-density RTAX-S family of radiation-tolerant field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
Radiation-tolerant FPGA is alternative to ASIC
The 250,000-gate RTAX250S field-programmable gate array extends the RTAX-S family to three devices, ranging in density from 250,000 to 2-million equivalent system gates.
The RTAX-S family offers sufficient density and features to enable designers to take advantage of the flexibility of FPGAs, thereby freeing designers from the front-end cost and schedule constraints that currently plague radiation-hardened application-specific integrated circuit (RH-ASIC) solutions.
Further, unlike SRAM-based FPGAs, the single-chip RTAX250S, RTAX1000S and RTAX2000S devices have proven immunity to single-event upsets (SEUs) and require no radiation mitigation techniques.
"Reliability is the number one requirement for devices used at the heart of mission-critical applications".