Notebooks and Desktops

Making Notebooks Smart, Sleek and Secure

PCs are the dominate productivity device for professional and personal use. Desktop and notebook designers are leveraging artificial intelligence (AI)-based applications to deliver improved user experiences on next-generation devices. At the same time, these developers are designing new form factors with ultra slim designs and creating secure devices that keep their usersā€™ information secure and private by protecting their devices against firmware attacks. Latticeā€™s solutions running on low power FPGAs provide:

  • Accelerated AI experiences driving instant on functionality, extended battery life, improved privacy, and collaborative conferencing experiences.
  • Flexible sensors connectivity and processing
  • Enable new form factors by reducing the number of wires between the screen and the base
  • Protection against malicious attacks with NIST SP 800 193-compliant firmware protection

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 Lattice sensAI: Making PCs smarter and more aware
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Lattice sensAI: Making PCs smarter and more aware

Lattice sensAI smart vision sensing technology tracks the user's attention while using their device making PCs smarter and more aware of their surroundings than ever before, by combining the built-in camera with machine learning models running on Lattice’s industry-leading low power FPGAs.
Lattice sensAI: Protecting your PC with onlooker detection
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Lattice sensAI: Protecting your PC with onlooker detection

Lattice sensAI vision sensing technology is designed to help protect PC users from visual hackers by warning the user with an on-screen alert, or automatically turning on privacy screen settings, when enabled.
Lattice sensAI: Better collaboration with face framing technology
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Lattice sensAI: Better collaboration with face framing technology

Lattice sensAI vision sensing technology helps to keep PC users in frame, even while shifting positions, and understands when new team members enter the frame and automatically refocuses to accommodate them.

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Notebooks and PCs

Example Use Cases

User Detection, Improved Privacy & Exteneded Battery Life

  • iCE40 Ultraplus 1mW always on user presence detection
  • High performance applications <10mW
  • Integrated image sensor configuration

Sensor Fusion

  • Interface with a wide variety of sensors to create rich user experience
  • Flexible pre-processing including arbitration, time stamping, and filtering
  • Create programmable sensor fusion algorithms

Flexible Connectivity with Single Wire Aggregation

  • Aggregates multiple I2C channels, I2S, and GPIOs into a single wire and send it over a single wire
  • Another iCE40 UltraPlus in the base disaggregates these interfaces
  • Simplifies interconnection, reduces wires through hinges

Low Latency Sensor Bridging

  • Take advantage of parallel FPGA architecture to simultaneously collect data from multiple sensors
  • Interface to wide variety of sensor to create rich user experience
  • Flexible preprocessing including arbitration, time stamping, and filtering

Image Sensor Bridging

  • Connect a wide variety of image sensor to processors
  • Support up to 2.5 Gbps CSI based image sensors
  • Flexible host interfacing including CSI, SPI, PCIe
  • Flexible processing for data muxing and stitching

Protect Systems from Malicious Attacks in the Supply Chain

  • Detect presence of malicious firmware code by authenticating device firmware before boot
  • Recover form firmware-based attacks by replacing malicious firmware with last known authorized version
  • Keep firmware protected by detecting and blocking firmware attacks in real time

Reference Designs

Key Phrase Detection

Reference Design

Key Phrase Detection

Continuous searches for a key phrase utterance via a digital MEMS microphone. Can be re-configured to work with any trained word or phrase.
Key Phrase Detection
Human Face Identification Reference Design

Reference Design

Human Face Identification Reference Design

Uses a Convolutional Neural Network in the ECP5 FPGA to detect a human face, and match to known registered faces. Can be adapted to work with any other object.
Human Face Identification Reference Design
Human Presence Detection

Reference Design

Human Presence Detection

Uses Lattice sensAI IP to continuously search for the presence of a human and reports results. Can be adapted to detect any other object.
Human Presence Detection
Object Counting AI

Reference Design

Object Counting AI

An example object counting application based on the Lattice sensAI stack. Includes SPI, DDR IP blocks, ISP engine, 8 CNN engines and a counting / overlay engine
Object Counting AI
CertusPro-NX N Input to 1 Output MIPI CSI-2 Side-by-Side Aggregation

Reference Design

CertusPro-NX N Input to 1 Output MIPI CSI-2 Side-by-Side Aggregation

Modular MIPI/D-PHY Reference Design - Multiple channel image data concatenated horizontally line by line and offers up to eight-channel aggregation.
CertusPro-NX N Input to 1 Output MIPI CSI-2 Side-by-Side Aggregation

Demos

Key Phrase Detection

Demo

Key Phrase Detection

Uses artificial intelligence (AI) to detect a specific key-phrase using a tiny, low-power iCE40 UltraPlus FPGA
Key Phrase Detection
CSI-2 PCIe Bridge Demonstration

Demo

CSI-2 PCIe Bridge Demonstration

This design demonstrates the functionality of transferring MIPI CSI-2 camera video data to computer via PCIe with a Direct Memory Access (DMA) engine.
CSI-2 PCIe Bridge Demonstration
Human Counting AI Demo

Demo

Human Counting AI Demo

Human upper-body detection and counting demonstration utilizes Latticeā€™s ECP5 FPGA and a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) acceleration engine
Human Counting AI Demo
Human Face Detection AI Demo

Demo

Human Face Detection AI Demo

Uses Lattice sensAI IP to detect human faces on a tiny, low-power iCE40 UltraPlus FPGA implementing AI at the edge. Adaptable to detect other objects.
Human Face Detection AI Demo

IP Cores

CNN Plus Accelerator IP Core

IP Core

CNN Plus Accelerator IP Core

CNN Plus IP is a flexible accelerator IP that simplifies implementation of Ultra-Low power AI by leveraging capabilities of Lattice FPGAs.
CNN Plus Accelerator IP Core
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Accelerator IP

IP Core

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Accelerator IP

Implement AI solutions with CNNs from common or custom networks. Configure up to 16-bit widths. Works with Lattice Neural Network Compiler software tool.
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Accelerator IP
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Compact Accelerator

IP Core

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Compact Accelerator

Implement AI solutions with CNNs or BNNs that have power consumption in the mW range. Works with Lattice Neural Network Compiler software tool.
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Compact Accelerator

Development Kits & Boards

CertusPro-NX Versa Board

Board

CertusPro-NX Versa Board

CertusPro-NX Versa Board supports a wide range industry standards such as MIPI, SFP+, 10 GbE, LPDDR4 and PCIe (Gen3) for rapid prototyping and testing.
CertusPro-NX Versa Board
Embedded Vision Development Kit

Board

Embedded Vision Development Kit

Three-board Video Interface Platform (VIP) modular kit. Includes 2 MIPI/D-PHY camera input, FPGA processing, HDMI output. More Input/Output boards available.
Embedded Vision Development Kit
CrossLink-NX Evaluation Board

Board

CrossLink-NX Evaluation Board

For general evaluation and development with CrossLink-NX, includes many flexible interfaces such as FMC and PMOD with generous device IO access
CrossLink-NX Evaluation Board
HM01B0 UPduino Shield

Board

HM01B0 UPduino Shield

A complete development kit for implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI) using vision and sound as sensory inputs to a low-cost, low-power iCE40 UltraPlus FPGA.
HM01B0 UPduino Shield

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