Microsemi announced that its SOC Products Division, formerly known as Actel Corporation, today unveiled its new 65nm embedded flash platform, on which the company's next generation flash-based customisable SOCs will be built. Featuring a new, expandable 4-input LUT architecture, the company's low-power, intelligent mixed signal and system critical series of SOCs will converge on 65nm embedded flash process. Densities are claimed to increase an order of magnitude, offering twice the performance when compared to the previous generation. The new platform will be characterised by low power, providing 65% lower dynamic power while enhancing the Flash*Freeze feature to provide lower static current. Future devices will include industry-standard bus interfaces and also allow integration of hardened intellectual property such as embedded microprocessor cores, DSP blocks, high-speed transceivers, memory interfaces, nonvolatile flash memory and programmable analog.
