A42MX16-PLG84I Microchip A42MX16-PLG84I Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) 72 I/Os 608 Logic Elements/Cells 172MHz

Microchip A42MX16-PLG84I Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) Overview

FPGA 42MX Family 24K Gates 608 Cells 103MHz/172MHz 0.45um Technology 3.3V/5V 84-Pin PLCC Box

Key Features of Microchip A42MX16-PLG84I Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)

• Optimized to number of Logic Elements/Cells: 608, improving robustness in practical applications.
• Designed to number of I/Os: 72, helping ensure consistent and reliable operation.
• Engineered to max Frequency: 172MHz, supporting dependable performance in real-world designs.

Microchip A42MX16-PLG84I Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) Applications

Space / Rad-Tolerant / Satellite Payload

• Commonly applied in spaceWire endpoint/router prototype — SpaceWire, LVDS, routing, supporting stable and efficient system performance.
• Commonly applied in reaction wheel control timing assist — PWM, encoder, control timing, supporting stable and efficient system performance.
• Well-suited for tMR (triple modular redundancy) framework prototype — TMR, scrubbing, safety, helping designers meet typical integration requirements.
• Often used in fault management state machine with safe-mode entry — FSM, redundancy, safe mode, where predictable behavior and reliability are important.
• Commonly applied in radiation event logging and SEU monitoring logic — SEU monitor, watchdog, logs, supporting stable and efficient system performance.

Energy / Grid / Power Electronics

• Well-suited for industrial motor drive multi-axis control assist — PWM, ADC triggers, control, helping designers meet typical integration requirements.
• Well-suited for protective relay fast fault detection pipeline — fault detect, comparators, low latency, helping designers meet typical integration requirements.
• Often used in grid time sync appliance (PTP/IRIG-B/SyncE) — PTP, IRIG-B, SyncE, where predictable behavior and reliability are important.
• Often used in microgrid deterministic I/O expansion controller — I/O, deterministic, timestamp, where predictable behavior and reliability are important.
• Well-suited for synchronized ADC capture + compression for grid sensors — ADC sync, DDR, compression, helping designers meet typical integration requirements.

Industrial Control / PLC / I/O

• Commonly applied in real-time alarm and interlock matrix controller — state machines, safety, GPIO, supporting stable and efficient system performance.
• Commonly applied in pWM generation for solenoids and valves — PWM, multi-channel, timers, supporting stable and efficient system performance.
• Well-suited for pLC I/O expander with deterministic scan timing — GPIO, LVDS, backplane, helping designers meet typical integration requirements.
• Well-suited for precision quadrature interpolation to higher CPR — quadrature, DSP, interpolation, helping designers meet typical integration requirements.
• Well-suited for deterministic latch-and-hold snapshot of I/O states — snapshot, sync, FIFO, helping designers meet typical integration requirements.

AI / ML Acceleration & Pre/Post

• Often used in streaming feature extraction (FFT/MFCC) for audio AI — FFT, MFCC, fixed-point DSP, where predictable behavior and reliability are important.
• Often used in sparse embedding lookup assist for recommender inference — sparse ops, DDR bandwidth, caching, where predictable behavior and reliability are important.
• Well-suited for hardware softmax/activation approximation pipeline — approx math, LUT, fixed-point, helping designers meet typical integration requirements.
• Well-suited for top-K selection engine for ranking inference — heap/select, streaming, low-latency, helping designers meet typical integration requirements.
• Well-suited for sensor fusion pre-processing for autonomous systems — timestamping, PTP, multi-sensor, helping designers meet typical integration requirements.

Cameras / Vision / Imaging

• Commonly applied in stereo depth block-matching accelerator — stereo, DSP, DDR, supporting stable and efficient system performance.
• Well-suited for hDR multi-exposure merge for camera sensors — HDR merge, DDR, timing, helping designers meet typical integration requirements.
• Well-suited for barcode/QR decode acceleration for logistics imaging — barcode, morphology, ROI, helping designers meet typical integration requirements.
• Often used in defect inspection: blob analysis and classification prefilter — connected components, features, where predictable behavior and reliability are important.
• Commonly applied in image sensor register control + diagnostics tunneling — I2C, SPI, SerDes control, supporting stable and efficient system performance.