April 2011

Lattice Ships 10 Millionth Power Manager Device

Power Manager Cuts Costs up to 50%, Significantly Increases Board Reliability and Reduces Risk of Board Re-spin

This month, Lattice announced it has shipped more than 10 million Power Manager devices since their introduction. All seven Power Manager devices have been broadly adopted in a wide range of high volume, cost sensitive applications, because they enable board designers to integrate the multiple power management functions of a circuit board into a single Power Manager device.

The Power Manager’s unique approach to an integrated, programmable power management solution has continued to drive its widespread adoption in a broad range of power supply management applications that require high reliability and design flexibility. Offering users "All-in-One Power Management," the Power Manager integrates a CPLD, voltage supervisors, MOSFET drivers, sequencers, watchdog timers, voltage measurement, regulator trim/margining, I²C interface and reset generators… all in a single device.

Reference Designs and Easy-to-Use Development Kits Reduce Time to Market

In order to accelerate development time, 24 popular reference designs and the easy-to-use Hercules Development Kit are available for prototyping cost-sensitive power management applications. Using the preloaded design provided with the Hercules Development Kit, designers can test within minutes power supply sequencing, voltage and current monitoring and measurement using the built in ADC and I²C interfaces. The Hercules Evaluation Board also demonstrates hot swap, power supply margining/trimming, power supply ORing and fault logging. Designers can reconfigure these demonstration designs in less than one hour using the free downloadable reference design source codes. This provides a known good starting point for their own design explorations.

Software Support

Power Manager designs are implemented using the Windows-based Lattice PAC-Designer software version 6.0.1. PAC-Designer 6.0.1 software is available for download free of charge from the Lattice web site.