Renesas — SLG47910V FPGA

Renesas has launched a product which is set to radically change the market for low-density FPGAs. By combining a robust and valuable feature set with low power consumption, low price, and free, easy-to-use development software, the new SLG47910V ForgeFPGA device opens the door to low-density FPGA development to all embedded system designers.

The SLG47910V is unusually small for an FPGA – it is supplied in a 24-pin QFN package with a 3.0 mm x 3.0 mm footprint – and consumes surprisingly little power, making it suitable for use in wearable devices and other space- and power-constrained designs.

The SLG47910V contains a dense array of configurable logic elements:

• 1,120 6-input, 2-output look-up tables (LUTs)
• 1,120 D Flip-Flops (DFFs)
• 5 kbits of distributed memory
• 32 kbits of block RAM (BRAM)

The FPGA’s configuration is created by programming a one-time programmable memory to arrange the interconnect logic, the I/O pins, and the macrocells. This allows this small, low-power device to perform a wide variety of FPGA functions, including:

• Sensor data aggregation and pipelining
• Protocol conversion
• Glue logic and edge processing
• Advanced power sequencing