"PolarPro gets its extreme chill from several design decisions. First, PolarPro is a non-volatile, metal-to-metal (we’d call it antifuse, but QuickLogic calls it “ViaLink”) technology. Regardless of what you call it, programming connections within the device are made by melting metal contacts together, and those connections remain for the life of the device. It is not reprogrammable. By giving up reprogrammability, PolarPro avoids having to supply constant power to configuration transistors (as must be done to retain programming in an SRAM-type FPGA). In traditional FPGAs, the majority of static power is burned keeping the configuration alive, so eliminating that component of power consumption is a giant leap backward on the power curve."

We'll not worry about QuickLogic....for the time being

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