San Jose, California-based Altera Corp says it is planning what it claims will be the industry’s first complex programmable logic device to operate at 3.3V: it says a 3.3V version of the 32-macrocell, 44-pin EPM7032 MAX 7000 will be available in the second quarter of 1993, offering 15nS logic delays at three to four times the logic density of 22V10s and will have an additional power-down feature controlled by a device pin, so that it runs on 20 microAmps; each macrocell in the CMOS EEPROM-based device can be programmed to operate in either high-speed or low-power mode while active, so that speed-critical portions of logic designs operate at increased power while the non-critical paths run at low power.
