Product category: Programmable Logic Devices
News Release from: Actel Europe | Subject: Flash-based FPGAs
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 08 August 2006
Study confirms Flash-based FPGA space
performance
Third-party investigation confirms Flash-based FPGAs are immune to configuration upsets caused by high-energy neutrons naturally generated in the earth's atmosphere.
Actel has announced that a comprehensive third-party investigation confirms that Actel's Flash-based field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are immune to configuration upsets caused by high-energy neutrons naturally generated in the earth's atmosphere The study also determined that advances in semiconductor manufacturing technology have had a detrimental impact on the reliability of SRAM-based FPGAs, making them more vulnerable to neutron-induced configuration loss, a major concern for designers of high-reliability systems such as medical, telecommunications, storage area network (SAN), military and avionics systems
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 24 Apr 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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