Renesas enters the Fpga market

Renesas seems determined to repeat Silego's huge success with the GreenPak line of devices with a line of low-end FPGAs that will be popular with companies that only need a small amount of programmable logic.

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Renesas has entered the Fpga (Field-Programmable Gate Array) market with a new line of ultra-low-cost, low-power devices: the ForgeFPGA family, aimed at meeting the current market demand for devices that integrate small amounts of programmable logic, which can be incorporated into your design efficiently and quickly, for low-cost applications.

Offering a high level of integration, these FPGAs reduce overall board and system costs. High-volume pricing is well below $0.50, allowing them to be used in areas that previously could not use FPGAs due to cost constraints, including high-volume consumer and IoT applications.

The ForgeFpga development team is the same one that introduced Silego Technology 's highly successful GreenPAK mixed-signal programmable devices, which joined the Renesas portfolio after the recent Acquisition of Dialog Semiconductor. The new FPGAs will leverage the same business model and infrastructure as the GreenPAK line, i.e. easy-to-use software with no license fees and reference application examples.

"It's exciting to see an established semiconductor supplier like Renesas enter the long untapped market for Fpga: specifically small, low-cost Fpga with standby power consumption of just a few microwatts," says Steve Leibson, Principal Analyst at TIRIAS Research. TIRIAS Research. "After acquiring device maker Silego through its acquisition of Dialog Semiconductor earlier this year, Renesas seems determined to repeat Silego's huge success with its GreenPak line of low-end mixed-signal programmable devices supported by super-simple development tools, this time with a line of low-end FPGAs that will be popular with companies that only need a small amount of programmable logic - roughly a thousand ports - to support a vast number of products including billions of embedded sensors and IoT devices."

"We look forward to extending our leadership in the low-cost small programmable Fpga market," says Davin Lee, vice president of the Mixed-Signal division within the IoT and Infrastructure Business Unit of Renesas. Renesas. "We know from experience and direct discussions that these devices will be attractive to companies large and small, in a variety of markets around the world."
The ForgeFpga Family will be used for applications requiring fewer than 5,000 logic ports. The first devices will have 1K and 2K "Look Up Tables" (LUTs) and a standby power consumption of less than 20 micro amps, half that of competitive components. Users will be able to download the development software free of charge and without licence fees. The software offers two design modes, suitable for both new and experienced FPGA developers: the "macrocell" mode is based on schematic development, while the "HDL" mode provides a Verilog environment that is familiar to FPGA developers.

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