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Article: RAM-transformed logic builds on a no-batteries foundation. (leading edge).
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- EDN
- Article date:
- July 25, 2002
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AN INCREASING PERCENTAGE of the programmable-logic industry's players are turning to SRAM-based process technologies to build their latest products (see "Lithography advancements `axcelerate' antifuse lineage," EDN, July 11, 2002, pg 22). In FPGAs, this trend has historical underpinnings: Aside from a brief antifuse experiment, market leader Xilinx (www.xilinx.com) has always built its chips on SRAM processes, and No. 2, Altera (www. altera.com), has exclusively relied on SRAM for successive generations of its Acex, Apex, Flex, Mercury, newest Stratix, and ARM-inclusive Excalibur parts.
Lattice Semiconductor, fresh from its acquisition of Agere Systems' Orca FPGA ...