Daughter Cards Manage HMI, Motor Control Functionality

( 1 Jul 2008 )

Actel Corp. has launched two plug-in daughter cards developed to manage human machine interface (HMI) and miniature motor control functionality. The new HMI Daughter Card and the Motor Control Daughter Card are offered as plug-ins to Actel's popular IGLOO Icicle Kit, and are targeted to increase market penetration for Actel's 5µW IGLOO FPGAs in the rapidly growing portable market. The HMI Daughter Card demonstrates keypad control, brightness control for white LEDs, color mixing for red, green, blue LEDs and tone generation, which is beneficial for applications like smart phones, portable gaming consoles and remote control devices.

The Motor Control Daughter Card demonstrates brushless DC and stepper motor control and can support a variety of functions often found in portable medical, industrial and consumer applications, such as respirators, smart phones and security cameras. An attractive low-power platform for portable design, the feature-rich 5µW IGLOO FPGAs can absorb additional glue logic and multiple functions—from storage and display to control—into a single chip, thereby reducing bill of materials, board area, power consumption and cost.

Actel Corp.
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