| Actel announced the availability of the A2F500 Development Kit. The kit is supported by Actel’s Libero Integrated Design Environment (IDE), which includes SoftConsole Eclipse-based embedded software development environment.
The company also announced the production availability of SmartFusion A2F500 devices.The device offers 500K system gates, a hard 100 MHz 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3-based microcontroller subsystem with 512 MB of embedded flash and 64 KB of SRAM. The programmable analog blocks were also improved and now include 3 ADCs and 3 DACs, 10 comparators and much more.
The kit includes
- SmartFusion development board with SmartFusion A2F500M3G-FGG484 device
- Ethernet, EtherCAT, CAN, RS485, UART, I2C and SPI interfaces
- Mixed Signal and Digital Expansion Header to connect application daughtercards
- Off-chip SRAM, Pseudo SRAM, SPI Serial Flash and NOR Flash memories
- Several switches, LEDs, Organic LEDs
- Low-cost programming stick (LCPS)
Pricing and Availability
The A2F500-DEV-KIT is priced at $999 and available now for ordering. For evaluating SmartFusion FPGAs, an Evaluation Kit based on the A2F200 device is also available for $99 (A2F-EVAL-KIT). |
