Lattice intros first 90nm non-volatile FPGA family

HILLSBORO, USA: Lattice Semiconductor Corp. announced the availability of its third generation non-volatile FPGAs, the LatticeXP2 family. With enhanced capabilities, the LatticeXP2 family doubles maximum logic capacity to 40K Look-Up Tables (LUTs), improves performance 25 percent, and adds dedicated DSP blocks, all of this, while reducing the price per function by up to 50 percent.

Power consumption has also been optimized on the 1.2-volt process technology, reducing static power usage by 33 percent. Designed using the industry's most advanced non-volatile FPGA technology, a 90nm embedded Flash process co-developed with Lattice's foundry partner Fujitsu, the LatticeXP2 devices provide the instant-on and reduced footprint benefits of earlier Lattice non-volatile devices, while also enhancing design security, RAM back-up and live update capabilities.

This product announcement comes over two years after the introduction of the previous generation 130nm LatticeXP family and demonstrates Lattice's ongoing commitment to leadership in the non-volatile FPGA segment. With over 20 years of experience in the non-volatile programmable logic arena, Lattice's market experience has demonstrated repeatedly that as the premium charged for a non-volatile solution is reduced at each new process node, significantly more users will take advantage of the benefits of non-volatility.

"FPGA designers have enthusiastically accepted our prior generation, the LatticeXP Flash-based FPGA family, with thousands of cumulative design-ins worldwide to date," said Stan Kopec, corporate vice president of marketing at Lattice Semiconductor.

He added: "We are gratified that this success has attracted the attention of one of our larger competitors who has recently attempted to jump on the non-volatile bandwagon, albeit with hybrid, multi-die devices that do not deliver the full advantages of our non-volatile FPGAs. The broad array of enhancements found in our new LatticeXP2 non-volatile FPGAs, reflecting our More of the Best philosophy, is the result of our ongoing dialog with designers who have used our LatticeXP devices. With enhanced features and lower prices, LatticeXP2 devices will further expand the use of non-volatile FPGA technology and accelerate the growth of this increasingly important segment of the FPGA market."