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Developing USB technology presents unique challenges, primarily due to the need for robust connectivity, speed, and power management within constrained device form factors. Compatibility across a wide range of devices, varying data transfer speeds, and demands for low latency and high-power efficiency place additional pressure on engineers to innovate within stringent technical limits. Engineers must integrate USB functionality into increasingly smaller modules, balancing functionality with desi...

Enhancements to version 4.0 of the award-winngin Lattice sensAI solution stack include support for the Lattice Propel design environment and the Lattice sensAI Studio design environment for end-to-end ML model training, validation, and compilation.

Lattice FPGAs are ideal for sensor fusion applications because their programmable fabric can be configured to perform sensor processing algorithms in a massively parallel fashion.

Lattice CrossLink-NX automotive FPGAs can help reduce the overall system cost of automotive smart vision systems for ADAS and in-vehicle infotainment (ICI) applications.

Lattice Mach-NX secure control FPGAs help datacenters and servers protect, detect, and recover from attacks against system firmware.

Lattice CrossLink-NX FPGAs deliver class-leading low power, instant-on performance, and reliability to compute, industrial, automotive, and consumer applications.

Lattice’s low power, small form factor FPGAs and easy-to-use design software make implementing IoT applications a breeze.

Low power Lattice FPGAs can enable new AI-powered laptops that improve productivity, security, battery life, and enable compelling new form factors.

Read the latest consumer news from Lattice: CrossLink reference designs boost design options, CrossLink-NX: unmatched design versatility, Lattice mVision Solutions Stack accelerates embedded vision development.

It’s not so long ago that systems equipped with embedded vision capabilities were physically huge and ferociously expensive. As recently as 10 years ago, few people would have believed that things like home doorbells would be vision-enabled, yet now...

Read the latest industrial and automotive news from Lattice: CrossLink-NX FPGA brings benefits to Lattice Nexus Platform, Radiant 2.0 adds key enhancement.

There is growing interest among embedded vision developers in adding AI/ML technology to their designs to give them the intelligence needed to run applications like object counting or presence detection. However, supporting AI/ML in embedded vision applications can be challenging, particularly as embedded vision applications trend towards increasing complexity.

Read the latest industrial and automotive news from Lattice: Enhanced sensAI stack packs 10X performance boost, Integrate AI into smart applications, CrossLink FPGA simplifies use of embedded vision, Lattice showcases sensAI at Microsoft Hackathon.

Read the latest automotive and industrial news from Lattice: New MachXO3D FPGA brings secures entire systems with hardware root-of-trust, Crosslink bridge connects industrial displays to mobile processors, new 3D Depth Mapping demo, new Scaler IP core for ECP5, and a new version of Diamond Software v 3.11 adds support for MachXO3D.

You may be asking yourself, “What does a nineteenth century architect have to do with FPGAs?” A key decision facing many system architects is which FPGA families to use in their next project. Lattice currently offers four classes of FPGAs: iCE, ECP, Mach and CrossLink. It is often tempting to think of FPGAs as just a blank canvas, ready to be filled with digital logic.

Imagine you’ve been given the responsibility to develop a new video bridging solution. Initially, you have a specific application in mind, but as cameras emerge in a growing number of intelligent applications, ranging from object recognition and depth perception to lane detection and collision avoidance, you know you will need prototypes for a wider variety of functions.

Not so very long ago, when embedded designers wanted to reduce costs, they would turn to high-volume PC architectures to drive down development costs. Where else could they find inexpensive components proven reliable in millions of consumer applications, and backed by an ecosystem of easy-to-use design tools and open source operating systems? Today’s embedded designers in industrial, automotive, medical and other fields are now finding that the smartphone market plays a similar role. Want...

CSI-2 cameras are a hot commodity. Driven by new regulations requiring backup cameras on new cars and continual improvements in camera-based Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) functions, the global vehicle camera market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 11 percent between 2015 and 2020. Growth in the camera market is also driven by the rapidly escalating use of drones, which market research firm Radiant Insights expects to jump from $2B in 2016 to over $21B by 2022.

Celebrating its 50th birthday, CES 2017 did not disappoint. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Las Vegas to get a first look at the latest technology for the upcoming year. During the 4 days, the biggest names in consumer electronics and startups alike wowed us with products and technologies that promise to make our lives easier and more efficient. Here are some of the trends we saw at the event and how we can support them.

Many of today’s most extraordinary inventions have been developed by independent makers, inventors, designers and tinkerers, who used collaborative tools and knowledge to create exciting, new products.