Lattice Semiconductor Launches CertusPro-NX FPGA Family with Bold Bandwidth, Reliability Claims
Designed for high-performance yet low-power edge projects, Lattice says the new CertusPro-NX is more powerful, smaller, and more efficient.
Lattice Semiconductor has announced the launch of a new family of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), aimed at embedded edge applications requiring a combination of high bandwidth and low power draw: CertusPro-NX.
"At Lattice, we are constantly looking for ways to innovate and design products based on the needs of our customers, and Lattice CertusPro-NX FPGAs are the latest example of how we’re delivering on this commitment," claims Lattice Semiconductor's Gordon Hands.
"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 that OEMs [Original Equipment Manufacturers] are eager to provide to customers."
The new parts, Lattice claims, include "class-leading power efficiency" with a quarter the power needs of "competing FPGAs of a similar class," support for up to eight programmable SERDES high-speed serial lanes operating at up to 10.3Gbps, 65 per cent more available on-chip memory compared to its competition and support for LPDDR4 DRAM, up to 100k logic cells, and a design footprint of just 81mm² — as much as 6.5 times smaller than competing parts.
The fourth device family to be launched on Lattice's Nexus platform in 18 months, the CertusPro-NX is being targeted at edge processing projects ranging from machine learning and artificial intelligence to 5G networking — and it brings a claimed two-orders-of-magnitude improvement in resistance to soft errors, the company claims.
More information on the CertusPro-NX family, which has already been sampled with select customers, is available on the Lattice website. The company has not yet disclosed pricing.