[sdiy] FPGAs

[Rainer Buchty]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, ASSI wrote:

> No. :-)  Actel ProASIC FPGA (formerly Gatefield, now Microsemi) use non-
> volatile switch cells for their configuration and the older Actel series use
> ANti-Fuses (so these are only one-time-programmable).  But the majority of
> FPGA is SRAM-based, unless you count the CPLD in (which are using internal
> EEPROM mostly).

Well, "the" FPGA (as in "the Xilinx patent") are SRAM technology. After 
all, that was the goal of the game, to

But funny that you mention Actel and their antifuse technology. Need to 
dig out that paper again regarding re-cristallization a friend sent me 
some time ago...

Rainer