Electronics News
Archive : 21 July 2008 год
With its patented garbage collection technology, PERC Ultra 5.1 has been engineered to deliver deterministic behavior and customer-reported five nines uptime making it the solution of choice for real-time embedded systems. PERC currently boasts the largest number of deployments for any commercial real-time virtual machine, numbering in close to one million fielded systems with applications spanning market segments such as aerospace, defense, telecommunications, industrial automation, and robotics.
PERC Ultra 5.1 targeting Power Architectures on LynxOS 4.2 is immediately available. Support for LynxOS 5.0 is possible based on customer demand. PERC development tools are available at no charge in combination with a maintenance contract. Target execution and deployment license pricing starts at $25K based on projected volume. PERC Ultra is also available with special bundling discounts when licensed together with PERC Pico.
Actel has received ISO/TS 16949:2002 certification. When combined with AEC-Q100 Grade 1 and Grade 2 qualification of its ProASIC 3 devices and the company’s Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) documentation, the certification ensures that customers can deploy automotive FPGA products. Actel’s flash-based FPGA devices offer low power and critical firm error immunity levels not achieved by SRAM-based solutions. This allows a wide variety of transportation vehicles – from standard automobiles to trucks and locomotives. To date, more than 70 percent of the company’s automotive-grade, flash-based devices are used in ”under-the-hood” applications such as powertrain, safety and transmission control modules.
Last year, Actel announced that the ProASIC3 family was the first to achieve AEC-Q100 Grade 1 and Grade 2 qualification. Qualification verifies that ProASIC3 devices can operate in extended junction temperature ranges (-40 to +135°C). Ultra low static power of 40 mA at 135°C enables the devices to endure extreme temperatures for longer periods of time without thermal reliability or runaway concerns. The ProASIC3 family also features on-chip flash memory for FPGA switch control, making them immune to neutron-induced firm errors which can cause configuration upsets-a mandatory requirement in an industry driving toward zero defects. Actel’s automotive-grade products therefore provide the first viable alternative to complex and costly application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) technology in under-the-hood applications.