The latest additions to Lattice's popular iCE40 product family, UltraPlus FPGA and sensor management devices, offer eight times more memory, twice the digital signal processors (DSPs), and improved programmable inputs and outputs (I/O) compared to previous generations of iCE40 products.
The Lattice iCE40UP3K and iCE40UP5K FPGAs, available from Mouser Electronics, are based on an advanced, ultra-low-power 40nm process and feature up to 1024 kbits of single-port RAM and a standby current as low as 100 μA. The devices provide 21 total I/O ports that can function as general-purpose I/O (GPIO) or SPI/I2C interface ports, with two programmable I/O ports that can be used to interface with the higher-performance MIPI I3C bus for sensor-based applications. The devices differ primarily in density, embedded block RAM (EBR), and DSP: the iCE40UP3K FPGA features 2800 lookup tables (LUTs), 20 EBRs, and four DSP blocks. The more powerful iCE40UP5K FPGA offers 5280 LUTs, 30 EBRs, and eight DSP blocks.
The iCE40 UltraPlus FPGAs are compatible with two development tools, also available from Mouser. The iCE40 UltraPlus Mobile development platform includes four iCE40UP5K devices, a Bluetooth® module, an LCD screen, a camera image sensor, microphones, and a suite of environmental sensors to help engineers evaluate the FPGAs for mobile applications. The iCE40 UltraPlus Breakout Board is an easy-to-use platform that demonstrates the FPGAs' high-current LED drive capabilities. The breakout board includes a single iCE40UP5K device and a pre-loaded demo for controlling the onboard RGB LED.
Among the industry's most programmable mobile heterogeneous computing (MHC) solutions, iCE40 Ultra Plus FPGA devices can interface with virtually all mobile sensors and application processors, enabling features such as speech recognition, gesture detection, facial recognition, and multi-layered graphics acceleration. These highly programmable devices are ideal for feature-rich devices such as smartphones, wearables, drones, Internet of Things (IoT) edge devices, and human-machine interfaces.
