November 2010

New MachXO2 PLD Family: The Do-it-All PLD for Low-Density Applications

Just two months ago, Lattice celebrated the shipment of 50 million MachXO PLDs and noted that the MachXO is well on its way to becoming its most popular product ever.

Building on this success, Lattice has now unveiled the second generation MachXO2 family, offering designers of low-density PLDs an unprecedented mix of low cost, low power and high system integration in a single device.

Built on a low power 65-nm process featuring embedded Flash technology, the MachXO2 family delivers a 3X increase in logic density, a 10X increase in embedded memory, more than a 100X reduction in static power and up to 30% lower cost compared to the MachXO PLD family. In addition, several popular functions used in low-density PLD applications, such as user Flash memory (UFM), I²C, SPI and timer/counter, have been hardened into the MachXO2 devices, providing designers a “Do-it-All-PLD” for low density designs.

Key Features & Benefits

• Instant-on, non-volatile - Powers up in less than 1 ms, enabling precise control during system boot-up
• Single chip - No external configuration memory required, resulting in high security and low total system cost
• Low power - Increases battery life and helps reduce the overall system power
• Hardened I²C, SPI, and timer/counter - Minimizes the use of LUTs for implementing additional functionality
• On-chip User Flash Memory (UFM) - Provides up to 256 Kbits of general purpose Flash memory
• Embedded & distributed memory - Efficient data buffering and resource usage
• Robust PLLs and on-board oscillator - Integrated clock management, reducing total system cost
• Flexible, high-performance I/Os - Interfaces with multiple voltages, DDR/DDR2/LPDDR memory and 7:1 LVDS interfaces
• TransFR technology and dual boot - Allows remote and reliable field upgrades while the equipment operates
• Device TraceID and One Time Programmability (OTP) - Prevents further erasure or programming of the Flash; unique 64-bit TraceID can be used for device tracking purposes

Device Selection

To maximize design flexibility, the MachXO2 family is offered in three options:
 

MachXO2 Device Options

Focus	Option	Regulator	Nominal Vcc(V)	Internal Vcc(V)	System Performance (MHz)
Low Power	ZE		1.2	1.2	60
High Performance	HC		3.3, 2.5	1.2	150
High Performance	HE		1.2	1.2	150

 

MachXO2 PLD Family Selection Guide

	LCMXO2-256	LCMXO2-640	LCMXO2-12001	LCMXO2-2000	LCMXO2-4000	LCMXO2-7000
Density LUTs	256	640	1280	2112	4320	6864
Density Macrocells2	128	320	640	1056	2160	3432
EBR RAM (Kbits)	0	18	64	74	92	240
Dist. SRAM (Kbits)	2	5	10	16	34	54
User Flash Memory (Kbits)	0	24	64	80	96	256
PLL	0	0	1	1	2	2
Package	I/O
25-ball WLCSP (2.5x2.5 mm)3			18
36-ball WLCSP (3.1x3.1 mm)3				29
64-ball ucBGA (4x4 mm)	45
100-pin TQFP (14x14 mm)	56	79	80	80
132-ball csBGA (8x8 mm)	56	80	105	105	105
144-pin TQFP (20x20 mm)			108	112	115	115
256-ball caBGA (14x14 mm)				207	207	207
256-ball ftBGA (17x17 mm)				207	207	207
332-ball caBGA (17x17 mm)					275	279
324-ball ftBGA (19x19 mm)					279	335
	Typical Static Power
ZE (uW)	19	33	70	98	153	230
HC (mW)	4	7	13	18	32	48
HE (mW)				2	3	5

 

 

 

 

1. MachXO2-1200 alpha samples are available now. Contact your Lattice sales representative.

 

 

2. Assumes 1 macrocell = 2 LUTs.

 

 

3. Contact your Lattice sales representative for the support of WLCSP packages.

Free Design Tools to Accelerate Your Development Time

Start designing with MachXO2 devices today by downloading the free Lattice Diamond software, or alternatively, the free ispLEVER Starter software with an installed control pack. Accelerate your development time with a comprehensive set of popular free reference designs for functions commonly used in system and consumer applications and optimized for the MachXO2 PLD family. In addition, two development kits that speed up the evaluation of MachXO2 devices will be made available soon.

To Learn More

For further information about the MachXO2 PLD family, visit the Lattice web site, view the MachXO2 Overview Video or contact your local Lattice sales representative.