Next Generation FPGA's Provide New System-Level Integration Solutions

Actel Corporation's ACT 2 family of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) is a significant advancement in density and performance for programmable logic devices. This latest generation of FPGAs provides design solutions for system-level integration that have not been previously available in the FPGA marketplace. Upon introduction, the A1280, the first and largest member of the ACT 2 family, found system-level applications in the consumer electronics industry at Videonics Corporation. The application of the A1280 in the Videonics Video Equalizer is described in this paper.