Mouser Electronics is stocking Actel’s latest SmartFusion mixed-signal FPGA.

With SmartFusion, Actel believes it has overcome the problem of getting a hardware processor core to operate efficiently in tandem with FPGA gates.

To do this the programmable logic supplier has designed a complete microcontroller subsystem built around a hardwired ARM Cortex-M3 processor and embedded it with its flash-based ProASIC3 FPGA fabric.

It has also added programmable analogue functions such as ADCs, DACs and comparators. 

The result is the SmartFusion range of mixed-signal programmable devices, which increases the performance specification of the firm’s four-year-old Fusion family of mixed-signal FPGAs, which included a softcore ARM Cortex-M1 processor.