July 27, 2010 -- Actel Corporation today announced FlashPro4, the newest hardware programmer supporting Actel's flash FPGAs: the IGLOO series and ProASIC3 series (including RT ProASIC3), SmartFusion and Actel Fusion families. FlashPro4 also supports FPGA embedded software program and debug managed by Actel's SoftConsole Integrated Design Environment (IDE) for embedded processors.

FlashPro4 offers high performance communication through the use of USB 2.0 and is high-speed compliant for full use of the 480 Mbps bandwidth. For IGLOO nano 1.2 V core FPGAs, 1.2 V programming is supported.

Features

• Provides programming for hardware design for all current Actel flash FPGAs and embedded software design and debug for embedded ARM Cortex-M3, Cortex-M1,  8051s, and future embedded processor designs.
• Common interface for hardware and software debug for Synopsys Identify, Actel on-chip debug, and Actel SoftConsole embedded software IDE
• Low cost in-system programming (ISP) hardware for a single FPGA or chain of Actel flash FPGAs
• Supports 1.2 V programming for Actel IGLOO nano 1.2 V core FPGAs
• Replaces and is fully backward compatible with the previous FlashPro3 programmer

Actel's FlashPro4 programmer is now available for US $49. The part number is FLASHPRO4. The kit includes a USB cable, a ribbon cable with 10-pin JTAG connector, and a quickstart card.

The FlashPro software is available for free, either standalone or as part of all Actel Libero Integrated Design Environment (IDE) versions.

Go to the Actel Corp. website for product details.