A54SX08-1FG144 - 8K Gate SX FPGA 144-FBGA | Microchip Technology
MPN: A54SX08-1FG144 ✓ Active| Qty | Unit Price | Extended |
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| 1 | $66.65 | $66.65 |
| 10 | $63.32 | $633.20 |
| 100 | $59.98 | $5,998.00 |
| 500 | $56.65 | $28,325.00 |
| 1,000 | $53.32 | $53,320.00 |
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A54SX08-1FG144 Maximum Ratings & Electrical Characteristics
| System Gates | 8000 |
| Logic Modules / Cells | 768 |
| User I/O | 111 |
| Maximum Clock Frequency | 280 MHz |
| Family | SX (Actel/Microsemi antifuse FPGA) |
| Logic Family | CMOS |
| Process Technology | 0.35 um |
| Supply Voltage | 3.0 V to 3.6 V (nominal 3.3 V) |
| Speed Grade | -1 |
| Program Type | One-Time Programmable (antifuse) |
| Package | 144-LBGA (FG144) |
| Mounting Type | Surface Mount |
| Operating Temperature | 0 C to +70 C (commercial) |
| Configuration | Non-volatile antifuse, no external configuration device required |
A54SX08-1FG144 144-lbga (fg144) Pin Configuration Guide
Complete pinout information for A54SX08-1FG144 (144-lbga (fg144) package). This digital IC includes GPIO, communication interfaces (UART, SPI, I2C), and power pins. Refer to the manufacturer datasheet for alternate pin functions and configuration options. Essential for embedded system design and PCB layout.
No detailed pinout data available for A54SX08-1FG144.
Refer to the datasheet for full pin configuration.
Safe Operating Area (SOA) & Thermal Characteristics
No official SOA curve available for this digital IC. Always operate within absolute maximum ratings specified in the datasheet. Ensure adequate cooling and derate as needed.
Typical Applications
A54SX08-1FG144 is suitable for 6 applications: Industrial Control and Automation, Telecom Line Cards and Network Interface, Design-Secure Embedded Systems, Bridge and Glue Logic for Legacy Boards, Aerospace and Defense Peripheral Logic, Test and Measurement Instrumentation.
Industrial Control and Automation
The A54SX08-1FG144 fits industrial control and factory automation systems that need deterministic glue logic, bus translation, and state machines at modest gate counts. Its 8000 system gates and 768 logic modules absorb PLC I/O expansion logic, encoder interface decoding, and inter-board handshake logic, while the 111 user I/O connect directly to 3.3V and 5V-tolerant-adjacent industrial signaling within the SX I/O specification. The antifuse configuration is non-volatile and immune to configuration corruption from power glitches or EMI events common on factory floors, a tangible advantage over SRAM FPGAs that must reload from external memory at every power-up. Instant-on behavior means control outputs are valid within nanoseconds of supply ramp, eliminating boot latency. Designers should verify the 0 C to +70 C commercial rating against cabinet temperature extremes and select the A54SX08-1FG144I industrial variant where ambient exceeds office conditions.
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Telecom Line Cards and Network Interface
The SX family's 280 MHz maximum clock rate and ASIC-like sea-of-modules architecture made the A54SX08-1FG144 a common choice for telecom line-card logic: framing, deserializer glue, backplane bus bridging, and status aggregation. The deterministic antifuse routing delays let designers close timing without iterative place-and-route surprises, which matters for fixed-latency paths in TDM and SONET/SDH-adjacent designs. With 111 user I/O in a compact 144-ball FBGA (roughly 27 mm square footprint area class), the device aggregates many low-speed status and control signals into a compact board area. The single 3.3V rail integrates cleanly with typical telecom backplane supplies in the 3.0V to 3.6V tolerance window. Note that the commercial temperature grade suits central-office environments; use the -I variant for outside-plant or extended-temperature equipment.
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Design-Secure Embedded Systems
Because the A54SX08-1FG144 is a one-time-programmable antifuse FPGA, its configuration cannot be read back, cloned, or altered after programming - a structural security advantage over SRAM FPGAs whose bitstreams can be intercepted at power-up. This makes the device attractive for applications protecting proprietary algorithms, key management logic, or authentication state machines implemented in the 768-module fabric. There is no external configuration PROM to probe, no bitstream on the bus, and no configuration corruption vector, so the attack surface at the configuration layer is essentially eliminated. Combined with instant-on operation and the 280 MHz clock capability for cryptographic datapaths of modest size, the part serves defense-adjacent and IP-protection-sensitive commercial designs. Designers should complement the fabric-level security with board-level countermeasures, as side-channel protection is not provided by the antifuse technology itself.
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Bridge and Glue Logic for Legacy Boards
The A54SX08-1FG144 excels at bridging incompatible bus standards and implementing glue logic on mixed-vintage boards: PCI-to-local-bus translation, microprocessor peripheral decoding, wait-state generation, and byte-swap functions. Its 8000-gate capacity is well matched to these tasks, and the 111 user I/O provide enough pins for 16/32-bit data paths plus address and control signals. The deterministic antifuse delays simplify worst-case timing analysis for asynchronous-domain crossings that dominate bridge designs, and the instant-on antifuse configuration means decode logic is active before a host CPU completes reset - avoiding the boot-window hazards SRAM FPGAs introduce. The single 3.3V supply with 3.0V to 3.6V tolerance matches most legacy board rails. For replacements in existing legacy designs, the FG144 variants listed in the alternatives table drop directly onto the same footprint.
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Aerospace and Defense Peripheral Logic
The Actel SX antifuse architecture - of which the A54SX08-1FG144 is a commercial-grade member - has a long heritage in aerospace and defense programs because antifuse configuration is immune to single-event configuration upset, unlike SRAM FPGAs. The 8000-gate fabric implements telemetry formatting, discret signal conditioning, checksum engines, and redundant-logic voting that benefit from instant-on, non-volatile configuration with no configuration memory to radiation-harden. The 0.35um CMOS process offers comparatively robust total-dose tolerance for its era. Important caveat: the commercial A54SX08-1FG144 itself is rated 0 C to +70 C and is not screened for space or military environments; programs should specify the -I industrial variant for ground-based defense equipment or consult Microchip's RTAX and military SX offerings for flight hardware. This page lists the commercial part for prototyping and benign-environment defense support equipment.
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Test and Measurement Instrumentation
Bench and automated test equipment uses the A54SX08-1FG144 for trigger logic, counter/timer datapaths, pattern generation, and interface adaptation between instrument buses and acquisition hardware. The 280 MHz maximum clock supports fast counter implementations, and the deterministic antifuse routing yields repeatable channel-to-channel timing skew - valuable when multiple measurement channels must sample coherently. The 111 user I/O connect capture front ends, status LEDs, and communication interfaces within one 144-ball FBGA, and the instant-on configuration means the instrument is logic-ready immediately at power-up with no configuration bootloader delay. The single 3.3V rail simplifies the instrument power tree. Because the device is one-time programmable, instrument firmware logic should be frozen and regression-simulated before programming production units; for field-updatable instrument logic, pair the FPGA with a small microcontroller handling any soft-defined parameters.
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Engineering reference data for A54SX08-1FG144 — comparison, design guidance, and compliance information.
Selection Guide
Comparison with Alternatives
| Parameter | This Product | A54SX08-1FG144I | A54SX08-1FGG144 | A54SX08-2FG144 | A54SX08-P1FGG144M |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Package | 144-LBGA (FG144) | 144-LBGA (FG144) - same | 144-LBGA (FGG144, green) - same footprint | 144-LBGA (FG144) - same | 144-PBGA - same footprint family |
| Brand | Microchip Technology (Actel/Microsemi) | Microchip Technology | Microchip Technology (Actel) | Microchip Technology | Microchip Technology |
| System Gates | 8000 | 8000 | 8000 | 8000 | 8000 |
| User I/O | 111 | 111 | 111 | 111 | 111 |
| Speed Grade | -1 | -1 | -1 | -2 (faster) | P1 (performance grade) |
| Operating Temperature | 0 C to +70 C | Industrial extended range | 0 C to +70 C (commercial) | 0 C to +70 C (commercial) | [DATA_NEEDED] |
| Supply Voltage | 3.0 V to 3.6 V (nominal 3.3 V) | 3.0 V to 3.6 V | 3.0 V to 3.6 V | 3.0 V to 3.6 V | 3.0 V to 3.6 V (nominal 3.3 V) |
| Program Type | One-Time Programmable antifuse | OTP antifuse | OTP antifuse | OTP antifuse | OTP antifuse |
Key Differentiators
- Design security via antifuse configuration (vs A54SX08-1FGG144)
- Lowest-cost speed grade option (vs A54SX08-2FG144)
- Commercial temperature economics (vs A54SX08-1FG144I)
Design Notes
The 144-ball FBGA (FG144) requires a precision BGA land pattern with either dog-bone fanout (via + short trace per ball) or via-in-pad technology. Dog-bone escape needs two signal layers minimum; dense 111-I/O utilization may require four layers to escape power, ground, and signals cleanly. Follow IPC-recommended land pattern geometry for the ball pitch, use solder mask-defined or non-solder-mask-defined pads per Microchip's package mechanical drawing, and verify assembly with X-ray inspection since balls under the package are not optically visible. BGA rework requires profile-controlled reflow equipment.
Power the A54SX08-1FG144 from a single 3.3V rail held within 3.0V to 3.6V. Because the antifuse fabric is static, current draw is dominated by I/O switching - estimate worst-case from your I/O count, toggle rates, and load capacitance rather than the core. Place 0.1 uF ceramic decoupling capacitors at the package corners adjacent to VCCA/VCCI balls, plus at least one bulk 10 uF capacitor nearby. Hot-socket behavior and power-ramp sequencing are not applicable since there is a single rail, but slow ramp rates should still be verified against SX datasheet power-up requirements.
The most common pitfall with this device is underestimating its one-time-programmable nature: there is no field update path, so any logic change requires new physical devices. Complete functional simulation and timing closure with the -1 speed grade models before committing to programming, and consider programming one prototype device first. Second pitfall: the commercial grade is rated 0 C to +70 C - using it in enclosures that exceed this range causes field failures; select A54SX08-1FG144I for industrial deployments. Finally, confirm timing at your actual fanout, since -1 speed grade margins erode at high routing utilization.
Compliance Information
Compliance data not present in provided sources. The FGG144 suffix variants (e.g., A54SX08-1FGG144) denote lead-free/green packaging per Jotrin listing; the FG144 standard finish compliance status should be confirmed from Microchip product pages.
