Lattice launched the new Lattice Certus™-NX series, what is the redefinition of FPGA IO density?

Launched the second product based on Lattice Nexus FPGA technology platform within six months

Provide industry leading IO quantity in small package

This series of devices has the leading IO density in the general FPGA market, and the IO density per square millimeter can be up to twice that of similar FPGA competitors. Certus-NX FPGA has excellent low power consumption, small size, high reliability and instant start-up features. It supports high-speed PCI Express (PCIe) and Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, enabling collaborative data processing, signal bridging and system control. Certus-NX FPGA is aimed at a range of applications ranging from data processing in automated industrial equipment to system management in communications infrastructure. Lattice Nexus™ is the industry's first low-power FPGA technology platform based on the 28 nm FD-SOI process, and Certus-NX devices are the second FPGA series products developed on this platform. The release of Certus-NX marks Lattice's second product series in just six months under the guidance of a new product development strategy.

Linley Group Chief Analyst Linley Gwennap said: "Certus-NX has unique and innovative features that make it stand out. Compared with other FPGA competitors with similar gate numbers, Lattice offers smaller package sizes, higher IO density and Lower power consumption."

Gordon Hands, Director of Product Marketing at Lattice, said: "Thanks to innovations at the system, architecture and circuit level of the Lattice Nexus development platform, we can accelerate the introduction of new products when customers evaluate the performance and power requirements of their applications. It provides more options. Certus-NX provides parallel processing capabilities and flexible IO support, enabling innovative device design and redefining what developers expect from a general-purpose FPGA."

With the development of technologies such as industrial automation and 5G, developers began to seek to add processing and interconnection functions to network edge applications. To comply with this trend, these devices require low-power processing hardware that supports common interfaces such as PCIe and Gigabit Ethernet. Device developers also need easy-to-use, unified development platforms that provide the hardware, software, and IP needed to quickly bring products to market.

Sanjeev Kumar, CEO of Logic Fruit Technologies, said: "As an FPGA design company, we have seen that serial protocols such as PCIe and Ethernet are widely used in chip connections for systems such as 5G and IoT. Lattice's latest generation of Certus-NX FPGAs Not only support these standards, but also provide high-density I/O while greatly reducing power consumption and design size of the entire device. These FPGAs help us quickly adapt to customers' changing and challenging interconnection and performance needs ."

The main features of Lattice Certus-NX FPGA include:

• The size is reduced by up to 3 times-Certus-NX FPGA can be easily applied to small-size designs, with minimal impact on the overall design size. For example, Certus-NX FPGA can implement a complete PCIe solution within 36 mm2. Even with the smallest package in the Certus-NX FPGA family, its I/O density per square millimeter is still twice that of competing FPGA products, providing greater design flexibility and powerful support for bridge applications.

• Reliable IO connection performance-Certus-NX developers can use Lattice's complete IP library. The main IPs that can be used on Certus-NX include:

1. 1.5 Gbps differential IO, up to 70% performance over competing FPGA

2. 5 Gbps PCIe, 1.5 Gbps SGMII and 1066 Mbps DDR3. Developers can test these IP modules on the Certus-NX development board to quickly implement commonly used interfaces in Certus-NX FPGA target applications.

• Strong authentication and encryption-To protect the device's bit stream from unauthorized access/change/copy, Certus-NX FPGA supports AES-256 encryption and leading ECDSA certification, which can be provided throughout the life cycle of the device protection.

• Power consumption is reduced by up to 4 times-the programmable matrix bias function of Certus-NX FPGA can select high-performance or low-power operating modes according to user application requirements. Compared with similar FPGAs, the power consumption of this series of devices can be reduced by up to 4 times.

• Instant start-up-The new device also implements ultra-fast device configuration through SPI memory, which can be up to 12 times faster than competing FPGA products. A single I/O configuration takes only 3 ms, and the entire device startup time is only 8-14 ms (depending on the device size).

• High reliability—reliable performance is critical for industrial and automotive applications where safety is extremely demanding. The devices in these applications must achieve the expected performance to avoid damage to people and property. Certus-NX FPGA's soft error rate (SER) performance is up to 100 times that of similar FPGAs. Certus-NX FPGA is an industrial temperature grade device. It also supports on-chip ECC and SEC.

• Easy to use/design-Certus-NX FPGA supports the easy-to-use LatTIceRadiant® software, which provides a unified FPGA design environment and integrates excellent tools and functions to help users develop applications quickly and efficiently.

Lattice has provided samples to some customers.

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