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."
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