General purpose FPGA family is based on Lattice Nexus
For advanced system bandwidth and memory capabilities in edge applications, Lattice Semiconductor offers the CertusPro NX general purpose FPGA family. It is the fourth device family based on the Nexus platform to be launched in 18 months and is claimed to have the highest bandwidth in the smallest form factor in comparison to similar devices.
With support for up to eight programmable SerDes lanes capable of speeds up to 10.3Gbits per second, CertusPro-NX FPGAs deliver the highest system bandwidth in their class to enable popular communication and display interfaces like 10 Gigabit Ethernet, PCI Express, SLVS-EC, CoaXPress, and DisplayPort.
To meet demand for robust data co-processing in edge artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications, CertusPro-NX FPGAs feature up to 65 per cent more available on-chip memory than other similar FPGAs, says Lattice. CertusPro-NX devices are the only low power FPGAs currently supporting the LPDDR4 DRAM memory standard, which is preferred due to its projected long-term availability.
According to Lattice, it has the highest logic density currently available on a Nexus-based device, and is designed to accelerate application development for the communications, compute, industrial, automotive, and consumer markets.
“Many Edge devices require low power consumption for better thermal management, high system bandwidth for fast chip-to-chip communication, components with small form factors for compact device designs, robust memory resources to support data processing, and high reliability for mission-critical applications,” said Linley Gwennap, Principal Analyst at The Linley Group. “Lattice’s CertusPro-NX FPGAs address all of these factors; in particular, they far exceed the competition in mean time between failures (MTBF) and offer the lowest power in their class.”
“The performance and differentiated features we’ve designed into CertusPro-NX deliver capabilities that were previously unavailable in low power FPGAs to support the next generation of edge applications,” observed Gordon Hands, senior director of product marketing, Lattice Semiconductor.
CertusPro-NX FPGAs are suitable for data co-processing in intelligent systems, high-bandwidth signal bridging in 5G communications infrastructure, and sensor interface bridging in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS).
CertusPro-NX is compatible with the latest version of the Lattice Radiant design software.
