I was trying to estimate the power consumption of IGLOO AGL600V2 FPGA from Actel with IGLOO power calculator (posted on Actel website). I received very astonishing results. With full logic utilization at 50 MHz, 25% toggle rate and around 100 I/Os (LVCMOS 1.8V, LVCMOS 3.3V) it consumes around 100 mW. It's about half of Xilinx Coolrunner-II consumption and a small fraction of Xilinx FPGAs (Spartan or Virtex) for same functionality. I was very surprised by this so maybe I'm missing something here. Is anybody familiar with this chip and its power consumption?
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16 years ago