Lattice Diamond design software offers leading-edge design and implementation tools optimized for cost sensitive, low-power Lattice FPGA architectures. Diamond software features many new features and abilities. The videos below include an overview of new features in Diamond along with several key improvements and changes in specific areas from earlier software environments.
| Video Title | Time | Size | Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond Overview | 14:48 | 28MB | Lattice Diamond software includes many new features. This video overview briefly covers several new features and abilities such as the new user interface, design flow, and several tool views that are available. |
| Diamond Key Concepts | 10:25 | 21MB | Lattice Diamond software includes several new key concepts. This video discusses the structure of Diamond projects and the use of implementations, strategies, and folders within projects. Additionally the video discusses shared design memory use, and context sensitive views. |
| Diamond Importing from ispLEVER | 4:47 | 10MB | Lattice Diamond software uses a different project structure than the previous ispLEVER software. This video describes how to import an ispLEVER project into Diamond. |
| Diamond Design Flow Changes | 8:23 | 16MB | Lattice Diamond software features a similar design flow to previous software with some changes and enhancements. This video describes the design process flow and the use of the Process view, File List view, and Run Manager view. |
| Diamond Timing Analysis Overview | 9:36 | 21MB | Lattice Diamond software includes a new Timing Analyzer View that provides a rich graphical interface to viewing timing constraint paths, reports, and schematics. Additionally, the ability to change timing constraints and directly run a timing analysis without re-implementing the design significantly speeds the timing closure process. This video describes the management of the Timing Analyzer files, the new Timing Analyzer UI, and how to make timing constraint changes and generate new timing results. |
| Diamond Power Calculator | 5:06 | 13MB | Lattice Diamond software includes an improved Power Calculator view. A new feature is the ability to manage power project files (PCF) directly in the File List view. This video describes the management of the Power Calculator files and the behavior of the Power Calculator view. |
| Diamond Reveal Hardware Debugger | 8:09 | 14MB | Lattice Diamond software includes improved Reveal Inserter and Reveal Analyzer views for hardware debugging. The Reveal Analyzer view features a streamlined interface including an updated waveform display featuring multiple cursors and rubber banding for measurements. This video describes the management of the Reveal debug files and the new Reveal Analyzer waveform changes. |
| Diamond Simulation Flow | 6:37 | 11MB | Lattice Diamond software includes changes to projects that support multi-file simulation testbenches and allow different models for simulation or synthesis for a single module. The Simulation Wizard has been enhanced to parse for the simulation top and to pass this information and other options directly to a simulator. This video describes the simulation features provided with the software and their basic usage. |
| Diamond Tcl Scripting Support | 2:41 | 5MB | Lattice Diamond software includes new Tcl dictionaries that provide the ability to script the design flow and several key views. This video describes the available Tcl dictionaries and how to run Tcl commands from the UI or the Tcl console. |
| Diamond Programmer | 4:17 | 6MB | Lattice Diamond software includes Programmer that provides the ability to directly program one or multiple FPGA devices on the same scan chain. This video describes how to use it from the UI or outside of DIamond. |
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