Lattice ICE40 FPGA now goes ‘Ultra’
Lattice Semiconductor Corp has announced the Ultra range of FPGAs to augment its ICE40 family of devices. Although The ICE40 has been around for a couple of years now the company’s new ‘Ultra’ range offers a wider choice of devices with improved functionality, smaller foot print and lower power.
Lattice Semiconductor Corp has announced the Ultra range of FPGAs to augment its ICE40 family of devices. Although The ICE40 has been around for a couple of years now the company’s new ‘Ultra’ range offers a wider choice of devices with improved functionality, smaller foot print and lower power. The iCE40 Ultra family integrates LED drivers, multipliers and accumulators, serial interfaces and a whole host more of hardened intellectual property (IP). This ASSP-like integration reduces system power and speeds implementation so designers can spend more time on the customization process. Main features of the Ultra family can be summarized as:
- Programmable I2C & SPI interfaces
- 10kHz Low Power Oscillator
- 48MHz High Performance Oscillator
- Four 16 x 16 Multiplier & 32-bit Accumulator Blocks
- Programmable PLL
- Three 24 mA Constant Current Sinks
- One 500 mA Constant Current Sink
- Up to 80 kbits of Embedded Block RAM Non Volatile
- Configuration Memory (NVCM)
- Up to 3520 Look Up Tables (LUTs) for customized capabilities
- Up to 26 I/O’s for customized interfaces
The smallest iCE40 Ultra device in a Wafer Level Chip Scale (WLCS) package measures 1.7 mm x 2.1 mm x 0.45 mm. Software support is provided by the Lattice iCECube2™ tool. The iCE40 Ultra family devices are available from Lattice now.
