Lattice cuts cost of development kit
Lattice states that customers outgrowing the capabilities of traditional microcontrollers and DSPs will be able to use the Versa kit to develop efficient FPGA solutions to address their emerging high speed design challenges in applications as varied as Video Transmission and Repeaters, Video Image Signal Processing, Camera Controllers, Network Traffic Management and Resilient Network Construction, Solar Panel Controllers and Data Acquisition & Control.
The complete Versa package includes the LatticeECP3 Versa Evaluation Board, seven demonstration systems, 16 free reference designs and an evaluation license for Lattice Diamond design software for use with the Versa Kit.
The evaluation board has both PCI Express 1.1 x1 and dual Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. The onboard SMA connectors showcase the electrical quality of the low jitter LatticeECP3 SERDES and provide an expansion port for external modules such as SFP transceivers.
In addition, Lattice is offering a limited quantity promotion on five comprehensive IP Suites offering ready-made building blocks for solving a variety of complex design problems, such as high-speed data transfer, Ethernet networking, high speed memory interfaces, digital signal processing and video pixel processing.
The five IP Suites normally retail for an annual subscription fee of $995 each. A limited number of IP Suites licenses are available for a promotional first year subscription of only $99 each. The latest versions of reference designs, IP cores and Lattice Diamond design software can be downloaded from the Lattice website.
For more information about the LatticeECP3 Versa Development Kit, please visit www.latticesemi.com/ecp3versa
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