Microsemi s next-generation SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs are the only devices that address fundamental requirements for advanced security, high reliability and low power in critical industrial, military, aviation, communications and medical applications
SmartFusion2 integrates an inherently reliable flash-based FPGA fabric, a 166 megahertz (MHz) ARM CortexTM-M3 processor, advanced security processing accelerators, DSP blocks, SRAM, eNVM, and industry-required high-performance communication interfaces all on a single chip. Recent attacks on military, industrial, communications and aviation systems have highlighted the need for security and anti-tamper safeguards within electronic systems. SmartFusion2 provides the most advanced design and data security capabilities starting with a robust root-of-trust device with secure key storage capability using the SoC FPGA industry s only physically unclonable function (PUF) key enrollment and regeneration capability from Intrinsic ID. SmartFusion2 is also the only SoC FPGA protected from differential power analysis (DPA) attacks using technology from Cryptography Research Incorporated (CRI) portfolio. Microsemi s programmable logic solutions are used extensively in military, aviation and space applications due to their reliability and protection against Single Event Upset (SEU)occurrences, which can cause binary bits to change state and corrupt data and cause hardware malfunction. Industrial and medical safety markets are also requiring SEU protection as vital requirement for their applications. SmartFusion2 architecture is designed to target reliability applications with the following features:
SEU immune zero FIT flash FPGA configuration cells
SEU Protected Memories: eSRAMs, DDR Bridges (MSS, MDDR, FDDR), Instruction Cache, Ethernet, CAN and USB Buffers, PCIe, MMUART and SPI FIFOs
Hard 667 mbps DDR2/3 controllers with SECDED (aka ECC or EDAC) protection
SmartFusion2 is differentiated from other FPGAs by its low power capabilities that enable orders of magnitude lower power operation for low duty cycle applications. The device family includes important low power features:
Industry s lowest static power 7mW during operation on the 50K LUT device
2mW standby power in Flash*Freeze real-time low power state
ARM Cortex-M3 low power modes
SoC peripheral low power modes
Leadership in Low Power FPGAs
10X lower static power with same performance
50% Lower Total Power
Leadership in Secure FPGAs
State of the art security enables root-of-trust applications
Radically transforms the usefulness of FPGAs in security applications
Leadership in Reliable FPGAs
Only SoC FPGA with SEU immune FPGA configuration cells and processor
Reliability designed for safety critical and mission critical systems
Leadership in Real-Time FPGAs
ARM Cortex-M3 real-time microcontroller
Flash*Freeze real-time power management
Instant on real-time availability
The SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA is a mix of hard IP blocks and FPGA on a single die. By leveraging hard IP within the device we can maximize the functional resources common to many systems in minimal silicon space, while offering full flexibility for design customization with the FPGA fabric and firmware. The microcontroller subsystem (MSS) has multiple interfaces to the FPGA, to allow for peripheral expansion and algorithm acceleration in the fabric. By using a flash process we can include embedded nonvolatile memory for data and code storage, and have significant advantages in design and data security.
