The 42MX families from Microsemi provide an affordable design option at 5V. The single-chip MX devices offer high performance while reducing the time needed for system design and development. MX devices are capable of combining and consolidating logic created by various PALs, CPLDs, and FPGAs. Examples of applications include peripheral bus interfaces, DSP, co-processor functions, high-speed controllers and address decoding, and high-speed address decoding.
Based on Microsemi's patented antifuse technology, which is implemented in a 0.45-m triplemetal CMOS process, the MX device architecture. The MX devices offer performance up to 250 MHz, are live on power-up, and have one-fifth the standby power consumption of comparable FPGAs. Their capacities range from 3,000 to 54,000 system gates. MX FPGAs come in a variety of packages and speed grades, and they offer up to 202 user I/Os.
All MX products have undergone thorough testing in both automotive and military temperature ranges. Additionally, the A42MX36, the family's largest member, is offered in ceramic packages with MIL-STD-883 levels screening in CQ208 and CQ256. The CQ208 and PQ208 devices can be easily converted from plastic to ceramic thanks to their pin compatibility.
The MX devices' fine-grained building blocks allow for quick and effective logic designs. These families of devices are made up of the fundamental components of fast logic designs: clock networks, routing resources, logic modules, and I/O modules. The A42MX36 device also has embedded dual-port SRAM modules that have been specially designed for high-speed datapath operations like FIFOs, LIFOs, and scratchpad memory. Wide-decode modules are also present in A42MX24 and A42MX36.
