January 2011

Reduce Cost in Industrial Displays with MachXO PLDs

Industrial display products are rapidly evolving as various display technologies invented for digital TVs, laptops and mobile phones trickle down into products in this segment. As a result, product life cycles are shorter, time-to-market windows are compressed and product differentiation is high.

While traditionally designers have relied on ASICs and ASSPs to deliver these products, there is a growing need for PLDs due to:

• Rising ASIC development costs
• Limited differentiation capability provided by ASSPs
• Obsolescence related problems

MachXO PLDs provide a superior solution for industrial displays. Enabling logic customization and higher system integration, these PLDs provide designers a low-cost system solution.

Reference Designs and Easy-to-Use Development Kits

In order to accelerate development time, a comprehensive suite of popular reference designs and development kits are available for prototyping industrial display applications. Using the preloaded demos, designers can test common interfaces such as SRAM, Flash memory, SPI and I²C controllers, within minutes and then build their own designs using the free downloadable reference design source codes, implementing these features in less than an hour.

To Learn More

For more information about the MachXO PLD family, visit the Lattice website or contact your local Lattice sales representative.