including PCI Express, Gigabit Ethernet, DDR3, and generic SERDES performance. The evaluation board helps designers quickly create and test ECP5 prototypes and designs, and is optimized to deliver the high-performance features found in the ECP5 family of FPGA devices, including the enhanced DSP architecture, high-speed SERDES, and high-speed synchronous source interfaces.
The Lattice Semiconductor ECP5 Versa evaluation board, available from Mouser Electronics, is developed using a half-length PCI Express lane, enabling demonstration of the PCI Express x1 interconnect. The board features a USB-B connection for UART and device programming and comes equipped with 128M serial SPI Flash, 1GB of DDR3 memory components (64Mbyte x 16), two RJ45 connectors interfacing to 10/100/1000 Ethernet to RGMII, and an expansion mezzanine interconnect for prototyping. Other board design features include switches, LEDs and displays for demonstration purposes, easy power measurements, a 14-segment alphanumeric display, and onboard reference clock sources.
The ECP5 device family covers look-up table (LUT) capacity up to 84K logic elements and supports up to 365 I/O users. FPGAs are suitable for a wide range of low-cost, high-volume, high-speed digital signal processing (DSP) applications. Typical programmable logic functions used in these applications are FIR (Finite Impulse Response) filters, FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) functions, correlators, and Reed-Solomon/Turbo Convolution encoders and decoders. The pre-engineered synchronous logic implemented in the ECP5 device family is also compatible with a wide range of interface standards, including DDR2/3, LPDDR2/3, XGMII, and 7:1 LVDS.
The Lattice Semiconductor ECP5 Versa board is now available for purchase through the Mouser Electronics website and features an ECP5 FPGA with a 1.1V core supply. The evaluation board can accommodate all ECP5 pin-compatible devices in the 381 ball caBGA package. Also included with the ECP5 Versa evaluation board is the configuration bracket for the Lattice Diamond® programmer. The design software allows large, complex designs to be efficiently implemented using the ECP5 FPGA family.
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