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PAB7: Kamal Khan
Actel Corporation
"Introducing Actel’s SX---Advantages of Programmable Interconnect Element & Sea of Modules in High Reliability Environment"
Actel has introduced its new Antifuse architecture in the form of SX family FPGAs. This family is based on the newest Actel’s architecture that utilizes Sea-of-Modules architecture and Programmable Interconnect Element. Clusters and SuperClusters form the basis of this Sea-of-Module Architecture with FastConnect and DirectConnect serving as local routing resources resulting in very high speeds--reaching over 250 MHz internal performance. This paper draws a comparison of SX devices to previous Actel devices--comparing architecture, performance, size, synthesis issues and in general system impacts. The SX architecture is compared to various synthesis styles and again a comparison is drawn to previous Actel devices.
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