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wireless Lattice provides customers with low cost and low power programmable solutions that are ready-to-use right out of the box.  For the wireless space, a full suite of tested solutions are available that include:

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Silicon: Industry Leading Programmable Wireless Platform 

 LatticeECP3™ Features

  • Low-Cost Digital SERDES
    • Ideal for low-cost chip-to-chip and small form-factor backplane applications
  • Up to 16 Channels per Device
    • Supports CPRI, OBSAI, Serial RapidIO, JESD204A, PCI Express, Ethernet (GbE, XAUI, SGMII) and SMPTE
    • Complete End-to-End Solution
    • Soft IP implementations for connectivity and RF/BB processing applications
  • Very Low Power
    • 110mW Per Channel (Typical @ 3.2Gbps)
  • Low-Power, High-Value FPGA Fabric
    • High end features at low cost
    • Cascadable DSP with 54-bit ALU
  • Small Form Factor
    • Small, low-cost 17x17mm wirebond packages

LatticeECP3 Block Diagram

ECP3

Intellectual Property: Rich Portfolio of Soft IP and Reference Designs

Lattice provides a comprehensive portfolio of soft and hard wireless IP including Connectivity support. Also available are reference designs in support of data conversion as well as other signal processing functionality.  By targeting the LatticeECP3 and LatticeECP2M platforms, developers will drastically reduce cost, power and footprint over competitive solutions.

Wireless IP Portfolio
Function Vendor ECP3 ECP2M
Serial Baseband Interconnect
SRIO IP Core for Wireless Infrastructure Interconnect New! Lattice checkmark  
Low Latency CPRI IP Core for Baseband Data Transport Lattice checkmark checkmark
Gigabit Ethernet and SGMII IP Core Lattice checkmark checkmark
PCI Express Endpoint IP Core Lattice checkmark checkmark
Layer 2 Ethernet Switch Flexibilis checkmark  
Data Conversion
JESD204A ADC Interface IP Core Lattice checkmark  
JESD204 ADC Interface reference design Lattice   checkmark
High Speed Serialized LVDS Interface Reference Design for TI ADS64XX family of ADCs Lattice checkmark  
High Speed Serialized LVDS Interface Reference Design and Evaluation Platform for TI ADS6000 family of ADCs Lattice   checkmark
Signal Processing Reference Designs and IP
Digital Up/Down Converters (DUC, DDC) for 4G Reference Design Lattice checkmark checkmark
3GPP-LTE CTC Decoder IP Core TurboConcept   checkmark
WiMAX 802.16 CTC Decoder IP Core TurboConcept   checkmark
Block Viterbi Decoder IP Core Lattice checkmark checkmark
Dynamic Block Reed-Solomon Encoder IP Core Lattice checkmark checkmark
FFT compiler IP Core Lattice checkmark checkmark
Numerically Controlled Oscillator (NCO) IP Core Lattice checkmark checkmark
FIR Filter Generator IP Core Lattice checkmark checkmark
Distributed Arithmetic FIR (DA FIR) IP Core Lattice checkmark checkmark
CORDIC IP Core Lattice checkmark checkmark
DSP Building Blocks
Listing of DSP IP cores and reference designs from Lattice and our ispLeverCORE Connections Partners Lattice / Partners checkmark checkmark
Embedded Processors
LatticeMico8 open source microcontroller Lattice checkmark checkmark
LatticeMico32 open source microprocessor Lattice checkmark checkmark

Development Boards and Demonstration Designs

Lattice Development Kits combine application specific evaluation boards, IP and relevant reference designs in one comprehensive package. The Solution Kits allow a potential user to quickly and seamlessly evaluate the Lattice Wireless Solutions portfolio, and to use it as a basis for customer specific development.

Wireless Evaluation Boards
Family Board Connectors and Capabilities
LatticeECP3 AMC Evaluation BoardNew! AMC PCB card edge interface, DDR2
Serial Protocol Board SMAs,CPRI/OBSAI, PCIe, GbE, DDR2/DDR3 (components)
I/O Protocol Board ADC/DAC, SPI4.2, DDR3 (two DIMMS)
LatticeECP2M Advanced Evaluation Board mico32, SPI4.2, DDR2 SODIMM, ADC/DAC
SERDES Evaluation Board SMAs, CPRI/OBSAI, PCI Express (x1), SFP, DDR

LatticeECP3 Wireless Demos

Electrical (PMA) Testing

To ensure compliance to 1000BaseX standards, we have tested our SERDES Physical Medium Attachment (PMA) to relevant ANSI 11.2 and IEEE802.3 specifications. Testing methdology and results can be found below:

PMA Electrical Characterization

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