Lattice Unveils the Secure Control MachXO5-NX FPGA Range, a Fifth Generation Nexus Design
Offering a claimed 70 percent power draw drop over the competition, Lattice's new FPGAs are sampling now.
Lattice Semiconductor has announced sampling of a new family of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) aimed at secure control workloads: the MachXO5-NX range, its fifth generation of Lattice Nexus parts.
"Fast-growing demands for secure system monitoring and reliability require additional control system capabilities. Our customers are looking for innovative solutions to meet these demands while increasing design efficiency and simplifying system integration," claims Lattice Semi's Gordon Hands of the inspiration behind the new parts.
"To help our customers to get to market fast," Hands continues, "MachXO5-NX FPGAs provide the right combination of advanced features, security, power efficiency, and reliability to meet their evolving needs."
The MachXO5-NX features up to 25k logic cells with 1.9Mb of embedded memory, designed to be enough so as to avoid the need to include external memory in a design. The parts also offer dedicated user flash memory for data storage, up to 9.2Mb depending on model, and include up to 300 programmable input/output (PIO) pins with support for 1.0V, 1.2V, 1.5V, 1.8V, 2.5V, and for 80 percent of the pins 3.3V operation.
The parts also offer 20 18×18 multipliers, two analog to digital conversion (ADC) blocks, digital signal processing blocks, DRAM interfaces supporting DDR3, DDR3L, LPDDR2, and LPDDR3, and security features including bitstream encryption, authentication, password protection, and run-time security functionality the company claims is "not currently available in competitive FPGAs of a similar class."
Designed for secure control projects and offering a claimed 70 percent lower power draw than the competition, the parts are supported in the latest release of the Lattice Radiant design software — but it might be a little while before you can get your hands on them: The company is sampling the components now, but has not yet disclosed general availability and pricing.
More information on the new parts is available on the Lattice website, alongside details of a development board, which features the MachXO5-NX-25 with optional gigabit Ethernet, HyperRAM interface, and LED, DIP switch, and push-button inputs.