Welcome to this edition of the Proactive Components, Inc. blog. We are here once again, profiling some of the most important parts and components from our 15 million plus inventory. You never know, you might find some of the components, you use regularly in your manufacturing right here.

Part number EP4CGX150DF31C8N is a field programmable gate array (FPGA) manufactured by Altera Corporation. Altera is one of the biggest names in the programmable logic devices (PLD) niche. The company is well known for its highly functional and advanced Stratix, Arria and Cyclone series of FPGAs.

Part number EP4CGX150DF31C8N is a Cyclone series FPGA. It specifically belongs to the Cyclone IV GX family, which comprises low cost, low power FPGA components equipped with 3.125 Gbps transreceivers.  This component has 149760 logic elements and 9360 Logic Array Blocks. It has 475 I/Os and 8 transreceivers with a maximum operating speed of 200 MHz. As with all FPGAs in this series, the data rate for part number EP4CGX150DF31C8N is 3.125Gbps. The component functions in an operating supply voltage range of 1-1.2V and between 0 and +70 deg C temperature. Part number EP4CGX150DF31C8N is RoHS compliant.

Part number COP8SGE728N8/NOPB is an 8 bit microcontroller manufactured by Texas Instruments (TI). TI is one of the world’s strongest designers and manufacturers of semiconductors, analog ICs, embedded processors, and a host of other products, which are used in varied applications across industries. From simple consumer appliances to complex commercial/military systems, you can be sure that a TI component is somewhere making the system functional.

With an 8 bit data bus width, part number COP8SGE728N8/NOPB has a 15Mhz maximum clock frequency. The program memory size for this component is 8KB and the DRAM size is 256B. The interface type is USART and it is through hole mounted. Part number COP8SGE728N8/NOPB has 24 programmable I/Os and 4 timers.

Part number FCN-268F036-GBD is a board to board and mezzanine connector manufactured by Fujitsu. It is a receptacle type of connector with 1.5mm pitch. It exhibits 72 contact positions in 2 rows. The current and voltage rating for part number FCN-268F036-GBD are 0.5A and 30V respectively. The housing material for this component is Liquid Polymer Crystal. The contact material is copper alloy, while the contact plating material is gold. Part number FCN-268F036-GBD is RoHS compliant.

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