May 2011

Lattice Announces Lowest Cost Design Platform for FPGAs with Configurable SERDES

Industry’s Lowest Cost FPGA-based PCI Express and Gigabit Ethernet Design Platform

The new LatticeECP3 Versa Development Kit is ideal for developing leading-edge applications in a variety of markets such as industrial networking, industrial automation, computing, medical equipment, defense and consumer electronics. The Kit is now available for a promotional price of only $99.

The Versa Development Kit is a comprehensive package that includes hardware, software, reference designs and IP that enable users to rapidly develop next generation systems. The complete package includes:

• A feature-rich, low cost LatticeECP3 Versa Evaluation Board with PCI Express 1.1 x1 and Dual Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
• A variety of demos to illustrate the capabilities of LatticeECP3 FPGAs:
  - PCI Express 1.1 system design demos
  - Gigabit Ethernet networking demo
  - High-speed DDR3 memory controller demo
  - Jitter tolerant SERDES eye demo
• PCI Express device drivers for Windows and Linux platforms
• 16 free reference designs for the LatticeECP3 FPGA family
• A Mini USB Cable for FPGA Programming via a PC
• QuickSTART Guide

The Versa Development Kit allows users to inexpensively evaluate the capabilities of high-value design blocks in LatticeECP3 FPGAs, such as configurable SERDES, cascadable DSP slices and high-speed DDR3 memory controllers. Designers outgrowing the capabilities of traditional microcontrollers and DSPs can use the Versa Kit to address high-speed design challenges in applications such 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 1.2 design software for use with the Versa Kit only. The free evaluation license is called "Diamond Free License - for Versa Kit Only". Please note that this free license is valid for Diamond versions 1.2 or later and can be used only with the Versa Kit. The demonstration systems, reference designs and Lattice Diamond 1.2 software are available for free download from the Lattice website.

LatticeECP3 Versa Evaluation Board

$99 IP Suites

Lattice is offering a limited quantity promotion on five comprehensive IP Suites to accelerate users’ time to market. The suites offer 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.

Pricing and Availability

Promotional pricing for the LatticeECP3 Versa Development Kit and IP Suites is $99 each. The regular list price of the Versa Development Kit and each IP Suite will be $299 and $995, respectively, after the limited promotion. The Versa Development Kit is available for immediate ordering via the Lattice online store and through authorized Lattice distributors. The IP Suite licenses can be purchased only through the authorized Lattice distributors or your local Lattice sales representative.