A42MX16-PQG160 Microchip A42MX16-PQG160 Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) 125 I/Os 608 Logic Elements/Cells 172MHz

Microchip A42MX16-PQG160 Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) Overview

The Microchip FPGA 42MX Family is a versatile and powerful field programmable gate array (FPGA) designed to meet the demands of modern electronic applications. With 24,000 gates and 608 logic cells, this FPGA delivers exceptional performance with a maximum operating frequency of 172MHz. Housed in a compact 160-pin PQFP package, it operates at a supply voltage range of 3.0V to 5.25V, making it suitable for a variety of applications. Its robust design ensures reliability in production environments, while its surface mount configuration simplifies integration into your systems.

Key Features of Microchip A42MX16-PQG160 Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)

• Optimized to 160-Pin PQFP Package for Easy Integration, improving robustness in practical applications.
• Designed to operating Supply Voltage Range: 3.0V to 5.25V, helping ensure consistent and reliable operation.
• Built to lead Free and RoHS Compliant, making integration easier across a wide range of systems.
• Designed to 24,000 Gates and 608 Logic Cells, helping ensure consistent and reliable operation.
• Engineered to temperature Range: 0°C to 70°C, supporting dependable performance in real-world designs.
• Optimized to maximum Operating Frequency of 172MHz, improving robustness in practical applications.

Microchip A42MX16-PQG160 Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) Applications

Storage / Memory / High-Speed I/O

• Commonly applied in high-speed SPI NOR controller with XIP support — SPI/QSPI/OSPI, XIP, supporting stable and efficient system performance.
• Well-suited for high-speed USB streaming bridge (custom) — USB 3.x, streaming, DMA, helping designers meet typical integration requirements.
• Commonly applied in high-integrity file logging with write-once protection — WORM, integrity, hashes, supporting stable and efficient system performance.
• Often used in dDR training supervision and calibration helper — DDR4/DDR5, training, control, where predictable behavior and reliability are important.
• Often used in dDR scrubber (ECC patrol) engine — ECC, scrub, DDR, where predictable behavior and reliability are important.

Energy / Grid / Power Electronics

• Often used in protective relay fast fault detection pipeline — fault detect, comparators, low latency, where predictable behavior and reliability are important.
• Often used in power and grid systems use FPGAs for synchronized sampling, protective logic, and deterministic PWM timing in converters and relays. Their real-time behavior supports fast fault response, time-aligned measurements, and control of high-power stages, where predictable behavior and reliability are important.
• Often used in solar inverter MPPT assist computation engine — MPPT, DSP, ADC sync, where predictable behavior and reliability are important.
• Commonly applied in substation IEC-61850 GOOSE filtering and stamping — IEC-61850, GOOSE, timestamp, supporting stable and efficient system performance.
• Commonly applied in hIL motor and inverter emulation for labs — HIL, real-time, PWM/ADC, supporting stable and efficient system performance.

Automotive ADAS / Sensors / Domain Compute

• Commonly applied in aDAS lane detection pre-processing pipeline — camera ingest, MIPI/SerDes, DSP, supporting stable and efficient system performance.
• Well-suited for automotive radar chirp timing and capture alignment — triggers, ADC sync, low jitter, helping designers meet typical integration requirements.
• Often used in driver monitoring face detection pre/post accelerator — NIR camera, pre/post, DDR, where predictable behavior and reliability are important.
• Commonly applied in v2X modem interleaver/deinterleaver assist — FEC, interleaver, DSP, supporting stable and efficient system performance.
• Often used in radar range-Doppler FFT pipeline accelerator — FFT, DSP, DDR, where predictable behavior and reliability are important.

AI / ML Acceleration & Pre/Post

• Often used in semantic segmentation post-processing (argmax + morphology) — argmax, morphology, streaming, where predictable behavior and reliability are important.
• Commonly applied in aI inference accelerator for CNN feature extraction — INT8/BF16, streaming, DDR4/5, supporting stable and efficient system performance.
• Commonly applied in streaming feature extraction (FFT/MFCC) for audio AI — FFT, MFCC, fixed-point DSP, supporting stable and efficient system performance.
• Often used in neural network weight decompression / sparsity expand — decompress, sparse expand, DDR, where predictable behavior and reliability are important.
• Commonly applied in real-time object detection pipeline prefilter — camera ingest, ROI, low-latency, supporting stable and efficient system performance.

Security / Crypto / Trusted Hardware

• Well-suited for secure time base and monotonic timestamping module — monotonic timer, PTP, anti-tamper, helping designers meet typical integration requirements.
• Well-suited for secure boot chain-of-trust verification engine — secure boot, signature verify, SPI NOR, helping designers meet typical integration requirements.
• Commonly applied in rolling hash chain signer for audit logs — hash chain, timestamp, secure log, supporting stable and efficient system performance.
• Well-suited for rSA/ECC modular arithmetic acceleration engine — RSA/ECC, big integer, HSM, helping designers meet typical integration requirements.
• Well-suited for oT gateway protocol whitelist enforcer — Modbus/IEC/OT, whitelist, rate limit, helping designers meet typical integration requirements.