SiliconBlue expands iCE65 mobileFPGA family

SANTA CLARA, USA: SiliconBlue Technologies, a leader in ultralow power, single-chip SRAM FPGAs, has expanded its iCE65 mobileFPGA family with the iCE65L01 device.

Today’s new battery-operated handheld products often require a programmable logic device to implement functions that may have been supported by application-specific standard products (ASSPs) or ASICs in the past. These functions, such as intelligent battery-life management and interrupt offload (to keep the application processor in a low-power mode as long as possible) are fast becoming differentiators for products such as eBook readers and SmartBook computers.

The iCE65L01, with 1,280 logic cells and up to 93 user I/O pins, is the perfect device to address these functions.

“Battery life management is a huge challenge for designers,” said Kapil Shankar, CEO of SiliconBlue. “Standard, fixed-function devices are insufficient to meet their needs. The iCE65L01 mobileFPGA device is the latest example in our strategy to provide a comprehensive family of devices offering the benefits of programmability and time-to-market to handheld, mobile product designers. The ASIC-like cost, high logic capacity, ultra-low power, and advanced-package technology of the iCE65 devices is a winning combination that provides the scalability required for our customers to implement features that differentiate their products.”

SiliconBlue’s iCE65L01 mobileFPGA device is available now in three packages: VQ100, CB132 and QN84. Customers can design with these new product/package combinations using the iCEcube VHDL/Verilog-based development software. Unit price for the iCE65L01 in the QN84 package is $0.99 for 1 million units in annual volume production consumption. ES samples and software support are available now.